Development of a guideline for the qualification of CO2 capture technology

AbstractThis paper presents a guideline for qualification of CO2 capture technology. The guideline provides a systematic and transparent procedure for the qualification of natural gas power generation technologies with CO2 capture. For new technology, there is generally a lack of relevant codes and standards. Qualification according to a set of requirements is therefore the only rational approach. The CO2 capture technologies available today need considerable efforts to integrate, optimize, and to scale up the process components to industrially mature processes. To secure the success and minimize the time to commercialisation of research and development projects for new CO2 capture technologies, it is vital that the technology is qualified in a step-wise and systematic manner.The guideline was developed as a joint industry project and was carried out through three phases: (1) Development of a draft guideline, (2) Test of the draft guideline in case studies, (3) Final guideline developed based on feedback from the case studies. The scope has been to develop a guideline that could cover the major routes to CO2 capture, post combustion, pre combustion and oxy-fuel processes. Thus, the qualification work process itself is described in a rather general way to be applicable for all three capture concepts, whereas further specifications are given as specific examples of applications to CO2 capture technologies