CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
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Is there a viable, field movable CO2 capture solution that exists in the market for engine exhaust?
Field movable = something transported on the back of a flat bed truck and not requiring permanent installation on the ground
Capacity = ability to capture atleast a proportion of ~700tons of CO2/year from engine exhaust post treatment
Field movable = something transported on the back of a flat bed truck and not requiring permanent installation on the ground
Capacity = ability to capture atleast a proportion of ~700tons of CO2/year from engine exhaust post treatment
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
None I'm aware of.
The back pressure is a bit of a killer usually as is the power to run the said CO2 capture plant
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RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
Seeing as you are a petroleum engineer, I'm actually exploring this for generators and engines on wellsites.
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
If you ask me, I'd say the fossil fuel based IC engine's days are numbered, given thermal eff is less than 15%: major contributor to global warming with this hot exhaust; getting investment agencies to put their money on this wont be easy.
Heat recovery from this hot exhaust from larger engines to generate supplementary power would be more stable, process wise, and may generate better returns on investment in the short term while IC engines live out their remaining days. At the current slow rise from 400ppmv CO2 in the atmosphere, incremental radiative absorptivity due to CO2 is most likely only a small contributor to global warming compared to hot exhausts from all types of power plants, ships, aircraft and civilian transport.
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
I'm also not sure what this mysterious process is to turn CO2 back into some sort of fuel.
If it was that easy then I think all the CO2 carbon capture plants would have done that and not looked at just pumping it into underground storage systems.
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RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
Another thing is that you are reducing fuel efficiency by about 2.8% with the extra weight, if my math is right, for a truck at the 80,000 lb overland limit. That is another hard sell to the trucking industry.
One last point that makes this seem extremely dicey to me is the storage of the CO2 onboard. A 55 gal drum of liquid CO2 weighs around 505 lbs. With ≈22 lbs of CO2 produced for every gallon of diesel burned, you are looking at an extra 505 lbs of freight every ≈23 gallons of fuel used. Even the smallest semis fuel tanks are around 125 gallons, so that means an additional 1,705 lbs (weight of CO2 produced minus the weight of fuel burned to produce it) needs to be factored into every load.
I'm sorry, but even if the technology is there, this would be a tremendously difficult sell to the trucking industry.
Andrew H.
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RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
Andrew H.
www.MotoTribology.com
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable
I worked with the development of some Fischer Tropsch catalysts and reactors. Given you need to run a RWGS reaction (CO2 + H2 -> CO + H20), you'll need a large supply of H2. There isn't really an economical means of generating large amounts of H2 - electrolysis can handle the volume, but is expensive.
The LTFT proces (low temp Fischer Tropsch) that Sasol uses (supposedly) has higher efficiency once the syngas is available, but the economics of this idea mean that it will only be economically feasible when oil prices are something like $130+/bbl (give or take a fairly large margin of error - I worked on this almost a decade ago). Adding modular CO2 recapture will only increase breakeven prices further.
RE: CO2 capture system for engine exhaust - field movable