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Effective retrofitting of post-combustion CO2 capture to coal-fired power plants and insensitivity of CO2 abatement costs to base plant efficiency

This work provides the underpinning engineering to show that a much larger fraction of the existing fleet of pulverised coal plants can be retrofitted with CO2 capture than were previously thought possible. A CO2 capture upgrade and rebuild, similar to the “floating pressure retrofit” proposed, is being undertaken by Hitachi at the world first commercial CCS power plant at Boundary Dam station in Canada (Michael Monea (email available), Saskpower). The work was directly applied through consultancy to Chinese power plants (FCO Contract C06008) and is now being extended in Lucquiaud’s Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (http://www.raeng.org.uk/research/researcher/postdoc/current.htm).