As worldwide governmental and public support for carbon capture and sequestration technologies increases, effective carbon dioxide capture technologies are being developed. With carbon markets and regulations developing, utilities with fossil fuel powered generating assets will need to make effective use of these systems in order to remain competitive.
Most of the capture technologies rely on creating adequate contact between the flue gas and spray droplets with which the CO2 reacts. Laboratory and pilot scale performance from technology developers will not necessarily translate to a utility scale retrofit, because the full scale scrubber and ducting may have significantly different geometry and fluid dynamics that can compromise system performance.
Alden specializes in optimizing system performance through computational and reduced scale physical flow modeling of site specific unit geometry. These studies will:
• Ensure optimum gas flow and thermal distributions both entering and within the absorber module
• Minimize the potential of liquid pull back into the inlet duct
• Minimize system pressure losses
As part of these studies, Alden develops flow controls in the model to ensure the flows entering the absorber system meet the levels of uniformity specified by the system supplier.
Our long history of experience in doing this work for other fossil fuel air pollution control equipment make us an ideal choice for your partner as your plant tackles the challenge of CO2 capture.
