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Keairns, Dale

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DOE OSTI2024

Systems Analysis Perspectives of Methane Pyrolysis, Fossil-Based Ammonia Production, and H2 and NG/H2 Transport (FWP-1022467 (5, 7, 8))

This poster presentation provides an overview of NETL’s work focused towards supporting the development of technical solutions to: 1) produce economical and low-carbon hydrogen from natural gas; 2) advance hydrogen sensing technologies for the existing natural gas pipelines; 3) evaluating new infrastructure to be used to transport hydrogen safely at a large scale; and 4) produce sustainable chemicals and fuels, such as ammonia, from natural gas resources, including methane emissions from flare gas.

Sheriff, Alana↗
DOE OSTI2023

Status Update on NETL Techno-Economic Analysis of Solid Oxide Cells

This is a presentation delivered at the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Project Review Meeting portion of the 2023 FECM / NETL Spring R&D Project Review Meeting on April 19, 2023. The presentation highlights recently completed techno-economic analysis of solid oxide cell systems including a brief overview of pairing SOFC technology with energy storage, an analysis of the tradeoffs associated with reversible SOC technology versus paired SOFC/SOEC, and highlights of the recently released NGFC and IGFC pathway studies. A more detailed description of analysis conducted on hydrogen fueled SOFC systems is also included.

Hackett, Gregory↗
DOE OSTI2022

Techno-Economic Analysis of Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell Systems

This National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) study describes the results of a pathway study for coal-based integrated gasification and solid oxide fuel cell (IGFC) power systems with and without carbon capture and storage. Two pathway scenarios are considered, based on the operating pressure of the SOFC. Three gasification technologies, including a conventional technology, differing in the syngas methane content, which has a significant effect on the IGFC system performance, were considered. The performance and cost benefits were estimated for a series of projected gains made through the development of advances in the component technologies or improvements in plant costs and availability. The objective of the study is to provide targeted research and development guidance to the FECM SOFC Program and SOFC commercial developers.

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DOE OSTI2021

Performance of a Natural Gas Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System With and Without Carbon Capture

The fuel cell program at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is focused on the development of low-cost, highly efficient, and reliable fossil-fuel-based solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power systems that can generate environmentally-friendly electric power with at least 90 percent carbon capture. NETL’s SOFC technology development roadmap is aligned with near-term market opportunities in the distributed generation sector to validate and advance the technology while paving the way for utility-scale natural gas (NG)- and coal-derived synthesis gas-fueled applications via progressively larger system demonstrations. The present study represents a part of a series of system evaluations being carried out at NETL to aid in prioritizing technological advances along research pathways to the realization of utility-scale SOFC systems, a transformational goal of the fuel cell program. In particular, the system performance of utility-scale NG fuel cell (NGFC) systems with and without carbon dioxide (CO2) capture is presented. The NGFC system analyzed features an external auto-thermal reformer (ATR) feeding the fuel to the SOFC system consisting of planar anode-supported SOFC with separated anode and cathode off-gas streams. In systems with CO2 capture, an air separation unit (ASU) is used to provide the oxygen for the ATR and for the combustion of unutilized fuel in the SOFC anode exhaust along with a CO2 purification unit to provide a nearly pure CO2 stream suitable for transport for usage in enhanced oil recovery operations or for storage in underground saline formations. Remaining thermal energy in the exhaust gases is recovered in a bottoming steam Rankine cycle while supplying any process heat requirements. A reduced order model (ROM) developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is used to predict the SOFC performance. The ROM, while being computationally effective for system studies, provides other detailed information about the state of the stack, such as the internal temperature gradient, generally not available from simple performance models often used to represent the SOFC. Such additional information can be important in system optimization studies to preclude operation under off-design conditions that can adversely impact overall system reliability. The NGFC system performance was analyzed by varying salient system parameters, including the percent of internal (to the SOFC module) NG reformation—ranging from 0 to 100 percent—fuel utilization, and current density. The impact of advances in underlying SOFC technology on electrical performance was also explored.

solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), natural gas fuel cel↗
DOE OSTI2020

Techno-Economic Analysis of Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell Systems

This is a presentation that was delivered virtually at the 2020 International Pittsburgh Coal Conference. In the presentation, details of the cost and performance parameter improvement due to incremental changes made in gasification and fuel cell operation and system configurations were presented. High level results indicate that SOFC fueled by coal-derived synthesis gas can be competitive with other fossil-based energy generation technologies when significant improvement to gasification technology is made and carbon capture is included. The cost of carbon capture of this system is very low due to the high efficiency of the SOFC and the high system fuel utilization due to the vent gas recirculation concept which recirculates hydrogen in the effluent back to the cell.

Noring, Alex↗
DOE OSTI2019

Distributed Generation as a Potential Market for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

This report explores relevant segments of the United States’ (U.S.) distributed generation (DG) market including military applications that are potential market opportunities for SOFC systems. The growth of the identified market segments through 2025 are evaluated along with an assessment of the landscape of competing technologies such as reciprocating engines and intermittent renewable energy technologies. The cost and performance of an nTH-of-a-kind (NOAK) 1-MWe class advanced SOFC DG system are estimated assuming the fruition of the goals of the SOFC program. Historical experiences with related technology, including effects of increased production capacity on capital costs, were used to develop a potential cost evolution trajectory of the DG SOFC system, which is compared with the concurrent evolution of competitive DG technologies to evaluate market penetration and cumulative capacity necessary for DG SOFC systems to be cost competitive.

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DOE OSTI2019

Carbon Capture Retrofit Tools

Presented by NETL at 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, 08/19

Zoelle, Alexander J↗
DOE OSTI2019

NETL Gen-2 Oxygen Carrier Assessment

The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Research and Innovation Center (RIC) has been conducting laboratory-scale tests to develop a new chemical looping combustion (CLC) oxygen carrier (OC) having copper, iron, and alumina components. This OC, designated as the Gen-2 OC throughout this report, has high maximum oxygen capacity and has been tested extensively in the RIC methane-fueled chemical looping reforming. A screening analysis has been conducted to estimate the performance and cost of CLC when utilizing the Gen-2 OC. In this report, the performance and cost results are compared to those of a range of previously assessed CLC OCs to provide a basis to establish the relative merits and issues associated with the Gen-2 OC. Base load CLC power plants utilizing the Gen-2 OC and the three comparison OCs considered in this assessment (Fe 2 O 3- , CuO-, CaSO 4- based) are estimated to have thermal efficiency and cost of electricity (COE) characteristics potentially superior to those of the equivalent conventional pulverized coal (PC) power plant applying conventional, amine-based CO 2 capture technology. The current assessment does not address flexible plant operation. An evaluation of the CLC plant designed for flexible operation would need to include a comparable PC plant designed for flexible operation.

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT↗
DOE OSTI2017

Advanced Oxy-combustion Technology for Pulverized Bituminous Coal Power Plants

The main objective of this study is to examine atmospheric pressure oxy-combustion technology options that have the largest potential to increase the system performance and/or to reduce the cost of electricity (COE). The costs and performances of the O 2 production technology and the CO 2 compression and purification system have the largest and most direct influence on the incremental costs associated with carbon capture using oxy-combustion technology. Other general process parameter improvements that enhance system efficiency also have a supplemental, albeit secondary, benefit on the costs by reducing the O 2 demand and the CO 2 throughput for a given power output. Accordingly, a total of eight advanced oxy-combustion systems based on advances in the four major areas of boiler design, oxygen production, flue gas treatment, and innovative CO 2 compression concepts were compared to a base case that reflects current oxy-combustion technology.

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT↗