Control of carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant (and use in enhanced oil recovery)
✍ Scribed by Frederick L. Horn; Meyer Steinberg
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 973 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-2361
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✦ Synopsis
The design of a compact, environmentally acceptable, carbon dioxide-diluted, coal-oxygen-fired power plant is described. The plant releases no combustion products to the atmosphere. The oxygen for combustion is separated in an air liquefaction plant and the effluent nitrogen is available for use in oil well production. Recycled carbon dioxide mixed with oxygen replaces the nitrogen for the combustion of coal in the burners. The carbon dioxide produced is used in enhanced oil recovery operations and injected into spent wells and excavated salt cavities for long-term storage. The recovery of CO2 from a coal-burning power plant by this method appears to have the lowest energy expenditure and the lowest by-product cost compared to alternative removal and recovery processes.