Environmental and economic assessment of the chemical absorption process in Korea using the LEAP model

✍ Scribed by Ho-Jun Song; Seungmoon Lee; Sanjeev Maken; Se-Woong Ahn; Jin-Won Park; Byoungryul Min; Wongun Koh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 245 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.05.004

✦ Synopsis

CO 2 emission from fossil fuels is a major cause for the global warming effect, but it is hard to remove completely in actuality. Moreover, energy consumption is bound to increase for the continuous economic development of a country that has an industrial formation requiring high-energy demand. Therefore, we need to consider not only a device for CO 2 mitigation but also its impact when a CO 2 mitigation device is applied. The device for CO 2 emission mitigation can be classified into three fields: energy consumption reduction, development of CO 2 removal and recovery technology, and development of alternative energy technology. Among these options, CO 2 removal and recovery technology has a merit that can be applied to a process in the near future. Therefore, research for CO 2 removal and recovery is actively progressing in Korea. In this study, environmental and economic assessment according to the energy policy change for climate change agreement and increase of CO 2 mitigation technology is accomplished, on the bases of operating data for the CO 2 chemical absorption pilot plant that is installed in the Seoul coal steam power plant. The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP) was used to analyze the alternative scenario, and results were shown quantitatively.