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Feasibility study of carbon capture and storage on NLC India Ltd |
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| Authors: | K Karunamurthy Pranay Singh Satyam Kumar S Kumar |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University Chennai, Chennai, Indiakarunamurthy.k@gmail.com;3. School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University Chennai, Chennai, India;4. NLC India Ltd, Operations, Barsingsar Thermal Power Plant, Rajasthan, Bikaner, India |
| Abstract: | India is one of the largest growing economies in the world. It has a GDP of 2487.94 billion US dollars as of 2017. Around 61.297% of power generation is by utilising abundantly available lignite blended with imported coal. India is slowly cutting out its demand for imported coal from other countries. It has built its own lignite-based power plant to overcome the need of imported coal. The impact on cost of electricity (COE) and net power output (NPO) after retrofitting carbon capture and storage (CCS) over a lignite-based power plant of India is analysed. In this paper, a feasibility study is carried out for NLC India Ltd Barsingsar power plant by retrofitting CCS. The results obtained from the Integrated Environmental Control Model (IECM) Software are positively strong enough to encourage CCS implementation. Various strategies for utilising the CO2 capture and carbon storage sites are suggested. |
| Keywords: | Carbon capture and storage cost of electricity retrofitting power plant emissions |