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Optimisation of carbon dioxide pressurisation pathways for pipeline offshore delivery
Highlights A fair comparison of the gas compression process and the subcritical liquefaction and pumping of CO2 pressurisation routes is performed. The work duty sensitivity of these pressurisation pathways is conducted based on a variability in pipeline mass flow rates at a selection of pipeline diameters. The main drivers of work duty for each pressurisation pathways are identified and optimised.
Abstract To maximise economies of scale of future CO2 transport infrastructure, new CO2 pipelines within the carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) value chain, should ideally have excess capacity to satisfy future transportation demand. However, in scenarios where booster compressors cannot be employed along the pipeline, the rise in pipeline mass flow rate over time culminates in higher energy consumption of upstream compression/liquefaction. This work explores the optimisation of various CO2 pressurisation pathways and assesses their flexibility in handling a variability in pipeline mass flow rates whilst delivering a captured CO2 stream at a fixed final pressure of 100 barg. The study is based on the Dunkirk 3D Project, which has a planned nameplate capture capacity of 1 MtCO2/y, with other CO2 point sources taking up additional pipeline utilisation capacity. Two categories of CO2 pressurisation pathways are considered, gas compression and subcritical liquefaction and pumping. These pathways are optimised to enable a fair comparison, considering the number of compression stages, compression ratio, and cooling/liquefaction system. Modelling results indicate that the temperature of the cooling utility has the greatest influence in reducing the overall work duty and sensitivity to a variability in pipeline mass flow rate. Furthermore, the utilisation of 5 °C seawater as a cooling and liquefaction utility reduces the work duty of the conditioning process by 25.4% and requires fewer compression stages relative to conventional gas compression utilising cooling water at 30 °C.
Optimisation of carbon dioxide pressurisation pathways for pipeline offshore delivery
Highlights A fair comparison of the gas compression process and the subcritical liquefaction and pumping of CO2 pressurisation routes is performed. The work duty sensitivity of these pressurisation pathways is conducted based on a variability in pipeline mass flow rates at a selection of pipeline diameters. The main drivers of work duty for each pressurisation pathways are identified and optimised.
Abstract To maximise economies of scale of future CO2 transport infrastructure, new CO2 pipelines within the carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) value chain, should ideally have excess capacity to satisfy future transportation demand. However, in scenarios where booster compressors cannot be employed along the pipeline, the rise in pipeline mass flow rate over time culminates in higher energy consumption of upstream compression/liquefaction. This work explores the optimisation of various CO2 pressurisation pathways and assesses their flexibility in handling a variability in pipeline mass flow rates whilst delivering a captured CO2 stream at a fixed final pressure of 100 barg. The study is based on the Dunkirk 3D Project, which has a planned nameplate capture capacity of 1 MtCO2/y, with other CO2 point sources taking up additional pipeline utilisation capacity. Two categories of CO2 pressurisation pathways are considered, gas compression and subcritical liquefaction and pumping. These pathways are optimised to enable a fair comparison, considering the number of compression stages, compression ratio, and cooling/liquefaction system. Modelling results indicate that the temperature of the cooling utility has the greatest influence in reducing the overall work duty and sensitivity to a variability in pipeline mass flow rate. Furthermore, the utilisation of 5 °C seawater as a cooling and liquefaction utility reduces the work duty of the conditioning process by 25.4% and requires fewer compression stages relative to conventional gas compression utilising cooling water at 30 °C.
Optimisation of carbon dioxide pressurisation pathways for pipeline offshore delivery
Dlamini, Gcinisizwe Msimisi (author) / Fosbøl, Philip Loldrup (author) / Ness, Kenneth (author) / Remiezowicz, Eryk (author) / Losnegård, Svein-Erik (author) / von Solms, Nicolas (author)
2023-07-19
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Optimisation of carbon dioxide pressurisation pathways for pipeline offshore delivery
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