Gardarsdottir, De Lena, Romano, Roussanaly, Voldsund, Pérez-Calvo, Berstad, Fu, Anantharaman, Sutter, Gazzani, Mazzotti and Cinti (SINTEF, Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zurich, Italcementi; the CEMCAP project); published in Energies (MDPI)
Comparison of technologies for CO2 capture from cement production, part 2, cost analysis (CEMCAP)
A techno-economic comparison of CO2 capture for a modelled best-available-technology European cement plant (3,000 tonnes of clinker a day): the reference plant without capture and the same plant with MEA absorption, oxyfuel, chilled ammonia (CAP), membrane-assisted CO2 liquefaction (MAL), and calcium looping in a tail-end and an integrated configuration. Table 6 gives the cost of clinker for each, in 2014 euros per tonne of clinker, on one set of prices (coal 3 euros per gigajoule, electricity 58.1 euros per megawatt-hour, 8% discount rate, 91.3% capacity factor) and with no carbon tax. The text states that capture raises the cost of clinker by 49-92%. Capture covers most but not all of the plant's emissions.
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- Gardarsdottir, S.O. et al. (2019). Comparison of Technologies for CO2 Capture from Cement Production—Part 2: Cost Analysis. Energies 12, 542. doi:10.3390/en12030542. CC BY 4.0.
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- Gardarsdottir, S.O.; De Lena, E.; Romano, M.; Roussanaly, S.; Voldsund, M.; Pérez-Calvo, J.-F.; Berstad, D.; Fu, C.; Anantharaman, R.; Sutter, D.; Gazzani, M.; Mazzotti, M.; Cinti, G. Comparison of Technologies for CO2 Capture from Cement Production—Part 2: Cost Analysis. Energies 2019, 12, 542. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030542
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- Published 1 February 2019 as a one-off journal article; the CEMCAP project ended in 2018.
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