Opportunities for BioSNG production with CCS Michiel C. Carbo Ruben Smit Bram van der Drift Daniel Jansen Presented at the 1 st International Workshop on Biomass & CCS, Orléans, France, 14-15 October 2010 ECN-M--10-099 DECEMBER 2010
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Opportunities for BioSNG production with CCS Michiel C. Carbo, Ruben Smit, Bram van der Drift, Daniel Jansen 1 st International Workshop on Biomass & CCS, Orléans, 14-15 October 2010 www.ecn.nl ECN Energy research Centre of the Netherlands ECN develops highlevel knowledge and technologies for a sustainable energy system and transfers those to the market NRG (300) ECN (630) JRC-IE (150) COVIDIEN (290) 2
ECN in brief ECN is the largest independent Dutch energy research institute 84 M /a turnover (2008) Private sector investments ECN-technology approx. 33 M (2008) 690 employees (~630 fte) 500 scientific publications/reports each year 10-15 international patents each year 3 R&D units Solar energy Biomass Wind energy Efficiency & Infrastructure Policy Studies H 2 & Clean Fossil Fuels 4
Bio Energy with CCS (BECCS) Conversion of biomass to electricity/heat/fuels/ products combined with CO 2 capture and storage BECCS potentially leads to negative CO 2 emissions, i.e. CO 2 uptake from the atmosphere through natural sequestration of CO 2 in biomass Offset of both historical and distributed CO 2 emissions BECCS is indispensable to cost-effectively achieve most stringent global warming stabilisation scenarios Fossil fuel fired power plants with CCS ultimately only mitigate 80-90% of current CO 2 emissions 5 BECCS research at ECN (1) BECCS research is multidisciplinary collaboration between different units: - Biomass, Coal & Environmental research - Hydrogen & Clean Fossil Fuels - Policy Studies Research topics: - Mapping sources & sinks, LCA, public perception - Policy measures & incentives - Assessment conversion routes 6
BECCS research at ECN (2) Technological routes under investigation: Power plants: Not only clean wood: - Biomass co-combustion (oxyfuel combustion) Demolition wood - Biomass co-gasification (pre-combustion) Sewage sludge Biofuels: Grass/straw - Lignocellulosic ethanol Agricultural waste - BioSNG Manure - Fischer-Tropsch liquids - Hydrogen 7 BioSNG Natural gas in the Netherlands: 45% of primary energy consumption 135,000 km transportation grid 94% of all households connected BioSNG: Ease of making distributed conversion more sustainable Possibility to decouple production and consumption Net CO 2 uptake from atmosphere possible through CCS 8
Natural gas production/consumption PJ/y natural gas (EU25) 30 000 25 000 20 000 15 000 10 000 5 000 0 consumption production European Union 25 sources: BP (history), IEA/2006 (projections) 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 9 Projected biofuel production 40 Cumulative global biofuel production (EJ) 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 Hydrogen from biomass Biogas/BioSNG Biodiesel (Fischer-Tropsch) Biodiesel (oil seeds) Ethanol (ligno-cellulosic) Ethanol (cane) Ethanol (grains) BioSNG 0 2008 2020 2050 Sources: REN21 (2009) and IEA ETP (2010, BLUE Map scenario) 10
Incremental cost vs. CO 2 em. reduction Source: IEA ETP (2010) 11 Current status BioSNG Güssing (Austria): 1 MW SNG pilot plant (existing) GoBiGas (Götenburg, Sweden) commercial plant: 20 MW SNG (2012) & 80 MW SNG (2016) HVC & ECN (The Netherlands) commercial plant: 4 MW CHP (2012) & 35 MW SNG (2015) All based on indirect biomass gasification: - Carbon conversion 100% - N 2 -lean product gas - High initial CH 4 content 12
MILENA Indirect Gasifier Two integrated reactors for gasification and combustion Essentially N 2 -free producer gas Complete conversion High methane yield, tailored for SNG-production low-n2 producer gas flue gas pyrolysis in riser BFB combustor biomass combustion air carrier gas (steam, CO2) MILENA, 5 kg/h, 2004 MILENA, 160 kg/h, 2008 MILENA principle 13 Biomass gasification tar formation 14
OLGA Tar Removal Commercially available, suited for different gasifiers Able to reduce tar dew point temperature below 0 C Operation above water dew point (no condensation) Absorber/stripper principle OLGA in Portugal, 2000 nm3/h OLGA at ECN, 2 nm3/h OLGA at ECN, 200 nm3/h OLGA in France, 2000 nm3/h OLGA in US, 25 000 nm3/h 15 Engineering for 10 MW th Bio CHP plant 1616
Plans at Dutch waste incineration plant 50 MW th Milena SNG Plant in 2015 10 MW th Milena CHP Plant in 2012 Photos courtesy of the HVC 17 BioSNG plant layout 20% C 40% C 100% C 40% C H 2 O production 18
CO 2 uptake during BioSNG production 19 Assumptions (1) Plant size ~500 MW th input Plant simulated using AspenPlus V7.1 Costing: - Early 2010 - Greenfields, overnight - N th plant, North-western Europe 20
Assumptions (2) Gasification pressure: 7 bara TCI: 1,100 /kw SNG O&M: 5% of TCI Other ficed cost: 2% of TCI Return on Investment: 12% Interest: 5% Biomass price (dry): 4 /GJ Electricity price: 0.05 /kwh (14 /GJ) CO 2 emission natural gas combustion: 55 kg/gj 21 Economic analysis (1) Annual Cost (M /yr) Cost ( /GJ) TCI 55.2 3.50 Biomass 89.7 5.69 Electricity 10.9 0.69 O&M 28.6 1.82 Other fixed cost 11.4 0.73 Total cost 195.8 12.42 Result 13.5 0.86 Revenues 209.4 13.28 22
Fuel Cost [EUR/GJ] Economic analysis (2) 30 25 20 15 10 BioSNG with CCS @ 13.3 EUR/GJ BioSNG w/o CCS @ 12.2 EUR/GJ Natural Gas @ 7.5 EUR/GJ Diesel @ 11.5 EUR/GJ 5 0 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 CO 2 price [EUR/ton CO 2 ] 23 Conclusions Incremental cost for CO 2 capture and storage is low for biofuel production; CO 2 separation equipment implemented regardless of application CCS CCS retrofitting is straightforward CO 2 avoidance costs for BioSNG competitive with CCS in fossil fired power plants; net water production Accounting for net CO 2 uptake from atmosphere lowers avoidance costs and accelerates deployment Scale-up indirect gasification technology needed 24
Questions More information: Michiel C. Carbo e: carbo@ecn.nl P.O. Box 1 t: +31 224 56 4792 NL-1755 ZG Petten w: www.ecn.nl the Netherlands Publications: www.ecn.nl/publications Fuel composition database: www.phyllis.nl Tar dew point calculator: www.thersites.nl IEA bioenergy/gasification: www.ieatask33.org Milena indirect gasifier: www.milenatechnology.com OLGA tar removal: www.olgatechnology.com SNG: www.biosng.com and www.biocng.com 25