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Carbon capture & storage (CCS)

Accelerating innovative design and managing risk

Carbon capture & storage (CCS) – Multiscale modelling

Multi-scale modelling is essential for quantification of options

 

Carbon capture & storage (CCS) – overview map of technology options

A key challenge for investigators into Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) options is the accurate quantitative prediction of the behaviour of the complex processes involved.

This is particularly true for new technologies where there is little operating experience on which to draw.

The complexity is compounded by the need to take interactions between different systems – across whole plants or even across power or CO2 networks – when optimising, to ensure that optimisation of one aspect of the system does not result in undesired consequences elsewhere.

Advanced Process Modelling is a key technology for accelerating innovation and managing the significant risk across all areas of development – power plant, capture plant, transmission and distribution and underground storage.

What are the benefits of modelling?

High-accuracy predictive modelling helps you to:

Accurately predict new process performance
Design components and systems taking all effects into account simultaneously
Rank design options based on high-quality predictive data
Optimise process design and performance
Reduce demonstration plant testing
Formally quantify and manage risk
Improve the effectiveness of R&D experimentation
Integrate R&D and engineering design
Screen design alternatives quickly and reduce physical testing
Support all decisions using accurate numbers
Accelerate process innovation at all levels.

Where can modelling be applied?

Within a single carbon capture chain modelling is typically applied to the areas below in order to provide detailed numerical information for decision support. Carbon capture & storage (CCS) – overview map of technology options

Modelling is also applied at different levels of fidelity to assist investment decisions across carbon networks.

What does PSE offer?

PSE provides a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art tools and expert services for modelling of carbon capture and storage.

Tools

PSE's gPROMS Advanced Process Modelling (APM) environment is a sophisticated tool for multi-scale modelling of complex processes and phenomena. Key gPROMS features are:

World-leading advanced custom modelling capabilities within a flowsheeting environment.
State-of-the-art model validation tools that allow estimation of multiple model parameters from steady-state and dynamic experimental data, and provide rigorous model-based data analysis.
Rigorous model-based data analysis.
Model-based experiment design capabilities can design experiments that generate the maximum amount of parameter information from the minimum number of experiments.
Comprehensive optimisation tools for continuous and batch processe. These enable direct solution of design challenges instead of lengthy trial-and-error simulation.
Combination of advanced process models with CFD in order to model and quantify hydrodynamic and chemical effects simultaneously .

Models

The Advanced Model Library for Gas–liquid contactors (AML:GLC) comprises technology-leading models for rate-based reactive distillation and absorption, ideal for modelling amine or other solvent-based carbon capture systems.
The Amine CO2 Absorber Model is a fully configured model for the absorption of CO2 using monoethanolamine (MEA). Based on the AML:GLC, the model comes in a "ready-to-use" form incorporating all necessary thermodynamic and kinetic data.

It provides immediate access to reliable predictions of both steady-state and dynamic performance of this class of absorber. By taking advantage of gPROMS's state-of-the-art optimisation facilities, the model also allows optimisation of absorber design and operation under steady-state and transient conditions, taking account of all relevant economic and operational objectives and constraints.

PSE can provide advanced reaction and separation models of all kinds, including fluidised-bed reactors and adsorption models, customised to order.

Services

ModelCare model configuration, validation and execution services, provide rapid project execution and transfer of know-how to customer personnel.
PSE's expert Consulting services analyse and formulate customers' modelling requirements, execute model-based analyses, interpret results and advise on action – for example, appropriate experiments and measurement techniques.
Model-Based Innovation services help guide customers' experimentation and integrate R&D effort with engineering design and operational improvement. This speeds up R&D programmes and provides high-quality parameter information for design and risk analysis.