Performance analysis of a 500 MWe coal-fired power plant with a post-combustion CO ₂ capture process

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In this study, a performance analysis of a 500 MWe coal-fired power plant with a post-combustion CO 2 capture system was performed. The amine-based chemical absorption process was considered as a base CO 2 capture system. Based on the design conditions of the flue gas from the supercritical coal-fired power plant operating in the Republic of Korea, the energy consumption of the CO 2 capture system was simulated using a process simulator. The simulation of the CO 2 capture system was undertaken using Aspen Plus software with ELECNRTL property packages; based on these results, the energy requirement of the CO 2 capture system and the overall efficiency of a power plant with the CO 2 capture system was estimated. It was observed that the thermal energy required to regenerate the solvent reduces the efficiency of the power plant by 8.36%, the energy required to compress the CO 2 from 0.1 to 11 MPa is the next largest factor, reducing the efficiency by 3.59%, and the other energy requirement amounts to 0.45%.