Efficient Carbon Capture for Coal Power Plants

The book addresses the interdisciplinary character of power plant technology. It focuses on power plant technology and ways to improve the effciency of CCS technology. Consequently, process engineers as well as chemists, physicists and materials' engineers are addressed. The book delivers specific insights for scientists and engineers in their field as well as enough overview for them to understand the opportunities and implications of the other disciplines. The books details the three principal ways to capture CO2 produced in power plants: Oxyfuel combustion, Postcombustion and Precombustion. The main part of the book focuses on the different approaches to remove carbon dioxide - i.e. the absorption processes and the membrane processes will first be explained from the physical, chemical and materials point of view in order to lay the foundation for the subsequent technical processes and to reduce the complexity of the information provided.

Detlef Stolten is the Director of the institute of Energy Research at the Forschungszen-trum julich. Prof Stolten received his doctorate from the University of Technology at Clausthal, Germany. He served many years as a Research Scientist in the laboratories of Robert Bosch and Daimler Benz/Dornier. In 1998 he accepted the position of Director of the Institute of Materials and Process Technology at the Research Center Jlich. Two years later he became Professor for Fuel Cell Technology at the University of Technology RWTH at Aachen. Prof. Stolten's research focuses on fuel cells, implementing results from research in innovative products, procedures and processes in collaboration with industry, contributing towards bridging the gap between science and technology. His research activities are focused on energy process engineering of SOFC and PEFC systems, i.e. electrochemistry, stack technology, process and systems engineering as well as systems analysis. Prof Stolten represents Germany in the Executive Committee of the IEA Annex Advanced Fuel Cells and is on the advisory board of the journal Fuel Cells. Viktor Scherer is the Head of the Department of Energy Plant Technology at the University of Bochum, Germany. He received his doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy KIT, Germany. Prof. Scherer worked for more than 10 years in the power plant industry for ABB and Alstom. In 2000 he was appointed as a Professor in Energy Plant Technology at the University of Bochum. His research activities are focused on the analysis and description of chemically reacting flow fields in the energy related industry, like power plant, steel and cement industry. Another research aspect is the integration of membranes for carbon capture into Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle IGCC power plants. Prof. Scherer is a member of the scientific advisory board of the VGB Power Tech, the European Association of power and heat generation.