Caitlin Connelly | MEL Candidate | Dec 16, 2022<\/p>\n
Mentor: Alfonso Lugo, TC Energy<\/p>\n
A feasibility study into the utilization of molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) for carbon <\/span>capture from turbocompressor flue gas at natural gas compressor stations\u00a0 was undertaken. A techno- <\/span>economic assessment determined that if integrating a 1.4MW MCFC module from FuelCell Energy (a <\/span>leading manufacturer of the technology), the calculated amount of carbon captured is approximately 4% <\/span>of the turbocompressor flue gas and can produce approximately 700kW in carbon capture mode. Taking <\/span>into consideration the current technology capital cost of $30MM, approximated operating costs of <\/span>$600k, the increasing carbon price that the company facility is subjected to, electricity generation profits <\/span>if sold back to the grid, and CO2 credits from energy generation, the NPV of the system is -$21MM for <\/span>an assumed system life span of 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n Economic feasibility is also dependent on the future capital cost reduction potential, and current <\/span>funding opportunities. The break-even capital cost of the technology was calculated as $9.5MM, and <\/span>until then, the system could still be financially viable due to funding opportunities. Additional feasibility <\/span>considerations studied included technical sensitivity, performance comparison with more mature <\/span>carbon capture technology (i.e., post-combustion anime), supply chain options, and technology <\/span>maturity. A roadmap to implementation is being developed for the company regarding this technology <\/span>that outlines current industry projects to keep an eye on, R&D requirements, pilot project requirements, <\/span>and a projected growth strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Caitlin Connelly | MEL Candidate | Dec 16, 2022 Mentor: Alfonso Lugo, TC Energy Abstract A feasibility study into the utilization of molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) for carbon capture from turbocompressor flue gas at natural gas compressor stations\u00a0 was undertaken. A techno- economic assessment determined that if integrating a 1.4MW MCFC module from FuelCell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[810,14,808],"tags":[135,128,124,130,132,131,127,134,141,138,123,133,129,140,136,139,76,53,126,137,125],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carbon-projects","category-ceen2022capstoneprojects","category-economic-feasibility","tag-break-even-capital-cost","tag-capital-cost","tag-carbon-capture","tag-carbon-price","tag-co2-credits","tag-electricity-generation","tag-fuelcell-energy","tag-funding-opportunities","tag-growth-strategy","tag-implementation","tag-molten-carbonate-fuel-cells","tag-npv","tag-operating-costs","tag-pilot-project","tag-post-combustion-anime","tag-rd","tag-roadmap","tag-supply-chain","tag-techno-economic-assessment","tag-technology-maturity","tag-turbocompressor-flue-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melceencapstoneprojects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}