CO2 shipping-compression, liquefaction and dehydration (CO2 LIQUID)
Lead Research Organisation:
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Water, Energy and Environment
Abstract
The proposed project deals with liquefaction of CO2 and its transportation by ship either for storage or enhanced oil recovery, and the impact of impurities on loading and unloading scenarios. There is little experience of handling liquid CO2 under shipping conditions. The levels, for which impurities (including water) need to be removed from CO2 so as to mitigate handling issues, and the associated impact on energy efficiency of compression and liquefaction, are not understood, especially for CO2 from fossil-fired power plants.
The study aims to evaluate the propensity for leakages, freezing, blockages, and safety issues for liquid CO2 suitable for transportation by ship (near to the triple point).
The project aims to modify the existing PACT facility at Cranfield to allow the multi operational facility to test CO2 in either dense phase or semi refrigerated fluid state. Two key technology gaps will be addressed: How to prepare an energy efficient triple point CO2 under controlled manner and what operational issues would encounter as a function of key impurities?
The study aims to evaluate the propensity for leakages, freezing, blockages, and safety issues for liquid CO2 suitable for transportation by ship (near to the triple point).
The project aims to modify the existing PACT facility at Cranfield to allow the multi operational facility to test CO2 in either dense phase or semi refrigerated fluid state. Two key technology gaps will be addressed: How to prepare an energy efficient triple point CO2 under controlled manner and what operational issues would encounter as a function of key impurities?
Planned Impact
As has been recently stated by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in its strategy for the transition to a low-carbon economy, carbon capture and storage (CCS) will play a vital role enabling fossil fuel-based power generation investments in a diversified infrastructure that includes new nuclear and renewable capacity. This project will enable an improved understanding of CO2 transport by ship; thereby it facilitates early deployment of CCS projects as well as supporting infrastructure growth and development over the coming decades.
A number of UK-based companies will benefit through developing know-how (shipping transport and operational difficulties), and be positioned to work with supporting industrial partners to exploit the derived technology in the marketplace.
A key element of the CO2 LIQUID project is an early engagement with key users and beneficiaries of the work. During this project there will be specific activities (modification of the facility, engineering data generation) set-up to explicitly identify research innovations or other outcomes of particular interest to stakeholders, and their impact for beneficiaries and routes by which maximum impact can be achieved. Update reports will be produced every six months and presented/disseminated through the UKCCSRC bi-annual meetings. The aim of presenting at these meetings will be to explain the findings and determine possible routes for deployment through relevant organisations, e.g. UKCCSRC RAPID process, International Energy Agency CCS Roadmap and APGTF CCS RD&D Strategy. These Impact Handbook developments will be combined with state-of-the-art surveys to ensure that pathways to impact pursued by CO2 LIQUID researcher are co-ordinated with other significant UK activities, including science forums/events to maximise their effectiveness.
A number of UK-based companies will benefit through developing know-how (shipping transport and operational difficulties), and be positioned to work with supporting industrial partners to exploit the derived technology in the marketplace.
A key element of the CO2 LIQUID project is an early engagement with key users and beneficiaries of the work. During this project there will be specific activities (modification of the facility, engineering data generation) set-up to explicitly identify research innovations or other outcomes of particular interest to stakeholders, and their impact for beneficiaries and routes by which maximum impact can be achieved. Update reports will be produced every six months and presented/disseminated through the UKCCSRC bi-annual meetings. The aim of presenting at these meetings will be to explain the findings and determine possible routes for deployment through relevant organisations, e.g. UKCCSRC RAPID process, International Energy Agency CCS Roadmap and APGTF CCS RD&D Strategy. These Impact Handbook developments will be combined with state-of-the-art surveys to ensure that pathways to impact pursued by CO2 LIQUID researcher are co-ordinated with other significant UK activities, including science forums/events to maximise their effectiveness.
Organisations
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (Lead Research Organisation)
- German University of Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- FLIR systems Ltd (Project Partner)
- Process Systems Enterprise (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
Kumar Patchigolla (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Al Baroudi H
(2021)
Experimental study of accidental leakage behaviour of liquid CO2 under shipping conditions
in Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Al Baroudi H
(2022)
Real-scale investigation of liquid CO2 discharge from the emergency release coupler of a marine loading arm
in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Al Baroudi H
(2021)
A review of large-scale CO2 shipping and marine emissions management for carbon capture, utilisation and storage
in Applied Energy
Asfand F.
(2019)
Thermodynamic performance of a supercritical CO2 cycle integrated with a recuperative absorption cooling system
in ECOS 2019 - Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems
Awoyomi A
(2019)
CO2/SO2 emission reduction in CO2 shipping infrastructure
in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Awoyomi A
(2018)
CO2/SO2 Emission Reduction in CO2 Shipping Infrastructure
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Awoyomi A
(2019)
Process and Economic Evaluation of an Onboard Capture System for LNG-Fueled CO 2 Carriers
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Thanganadar D
(2019)
Thermal performance and economic analysis of supercritical Carbon Dioxide cycles in combined cycle power plant
in Applied Energy
Thanganadar D
(2021)
Techno-economic analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle integrated with coal-fired power plant
in Energy Conversion and Management
Thanganadar D
(2021)
Off-design and annual performance analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle with thermal storage for CSP application
in Applied Energy
Description | This work has generated several peer reviewed journal publications and supported to train several early carrier researchers. |
Exploitation Route | Awoyomi, A., Albaroudi, H., Patchigolla. K., Anthony, B. (2018) 'Large scale CO2 shipping and related emissions - A Review' published in Applied Energy |
Sectors | Education Energy |
Description | Started using to interact with international community, mainly International Maritime Organisation (IMO)--submitted an EOI to Marri-UK in collaboration to B9 Energy, and the project wasn't successful. Started discussions with shipping companies through University of Tokyo, and looking for securing additional funding to support this activity--Student mobility for 3 months secured through UKCCSRC to visit Tokyo and perform some engineering activities. More recently we were in discussion with Oman to reduce Maritime emissions by implementing carbon capture options including liquefaction to their existing infrastructure. A proposal has been submitted to industrial funder via GUTech in March 2022, and awaiting for the outcome |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Energy,Environment |
Impact Types | Economic Policy & public services |
Description | CO2 shipping: liquefaction, loading, unloading and transport |
Amount | £77,400 (GBP) |
Organisation | Cranfield University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2016 |
End | 10/2019 |
Description | Technical challenges facing the transport of CO2 by shipping |
Amount | £108,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | PTDF Petroleum Technology Development Fund Nigeria |
Sector | Public |
Country | Nigeria |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 02/2020 |
Title | Underlying data for the paper "Techno-economic analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle integrated with coal-fired power plant" |
Description | Underlying data for the journal paper "Techno-economic analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle integrated with coal-fired power plant" |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cord.cranfield.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Underlying_data_for_the_paper_Techno-economic_analysis... |
Title | Underlying data for the paper "Thermo-economic Analysis, Optimisation and Systematic Integration of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle with Sensible Heat Thermal Energy Storage for CSP Application" |
Description | Underlying data for the paper "Thermo-economic Analysis, Optimisation and Systematic Integration of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle with Sensible Heat Thermal Energy Storage for CSP Application" |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cord.cranfield.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Underlying_data_for_the_paper_Thermo-economic_Analysis... |
Description | Exploitation of specialised CCUS Equation of State |
Organisation | Newcastle University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The EOS will be validated against new test data applicable to CO2 shipping using the test rig at Cranfield University. As an example of using the EOS in other codes, the EOS will be incorporated into the shelter and escape model (from UKCCSRC Call 2) using a MATLAB wrapper. This code is open source (available on the UKCCSRC Data Archive) and was written to quantify the consequences of a CO2 pipeline release to the surrounding population. |
Collaborator Contribution | to write wrapper codes for the EOS in common languages, perform low pressure and temperature tests applicable to CO2 shipping and liquefaction, to validate the EOS against this new experimental data |
Impact | progressing to develop impact statements for the CCUS community |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Exploitation of specialised CCUS Equation of State |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The EOS will be validated against new test data applicable to CO2 shipping using the test rig at Cranfield University. As an example of using the EOS in other codes, the EOS will be incorporated into the shelter and escape model (from UKCCSRC Call 2) using a MATLAB wrapper. This code is open source (available on the UKCCSRC Data Archive) and was written to quantify the consequences of a CO2 pipeline release to the surrounding population. |
Collaborator Contribution | to write wrapper codes for the EOS in common languages, perform low pressure and temperature tests applicable to CO2 shipping and liquefaction, to validate the EOS against this new experimental data |
Impact | progressing to develop impact statements for the CCUS community |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Recovering liquefaction cost of captured carbon dioxide by cold energy utilisation and electric power generation |
Organisation | Cranfield University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | this is further follow on project funded via UKCCSRC flexi fund programme |
Collaborator Contribution | Aimed to perform technical feasibility and economic analysis of a novel cold storage concept to recover some of the energy/cost spent on liquefying CO2 for shipping |
Impact | created a blog |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | carbon capture requirements for maritime sector |
Organisation | German University of Technology |
Country | Oman |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | develop aspen models for a known fleet types. |
Collaborator Contribution | just started |
Impact | yet to develop |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | FeRN Women in Research Competition 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Cranfield University's sponsorship of International Women in Engineering Day, 19th June 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | GHGT conference presentation: CO2/SO2 emission reduction in CO2 shipping infrastructure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented the paper at GHGT conference in Australia, 21-25th Oct 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Poster presented to update the progess on Large scale CO2 shipping and the effect of impurities' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Progress update presented at UKCCSRC Biannual Meeting @ Sheffield University; Hisham and Adeola secured funding to attend this event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | UKCCSRC Biannual meeting, 11-12th April 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper 1:CO2/SO2 gas emission treatment system and losses from CO2 shipping infrastructure; Paper 2: Large scale CO2 shipping: development of more efficient, reliable operations and the impacts of impurities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | UKCCSRC biannual meeting, 11-12th Sep 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper 1:Development of efficient and reliable large scale CO2 shipment with associated emissions management |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | UKCCSRC biannual meeting-September 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This is UKCCSRC biannual meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | poster presentation-Large scale CO2 shipping and the effect of impurities' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presented at UKCCSRC Biannual Meeting @ Cambridge University; Hisham and Adeola secured funding to attend this meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |