Methods and systems for improving the efficiencies of power and other industrial process plants
OwnerJoseph Peter MACEDAinventor
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Abstract
This present invention describes methods and systems for integrating liquid-phase, electrochemical and chemical processes into power generation, petrochemical, metal, cement and other industrial process plants, in such a manner as to capture and recycle all input carbon into cost-competitive hydrogen, oxygen and hydrocarbons. These integrated systems will recover internally generated losses in chemical potential (AG Gibbs Free or Available Energy) as well as waste heat (ΔH—Enthalpy), and sometimes electricity, to assist in driving these electrochemical and chemical processes, which will increase the total useful output of the process plants, thereby increasing thermal, carbon and economic efficiency.
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A system integrating a fossil-fueled power plant with:
- i) a post-combustion, carbon dioxide capture subsystem that carbonizes an acidic, basic or buffer, liquid electrolyte solution;
- ii) a decarbonizing subsystem that regenerates the carbonized electrolyte solution;
- iii) a thermal management subsystem that integrates the power plant waste heat and/or external heat sources with the thermal needs of the other subsystems;
- iv) a power management subsystem that integrates and optimizes all internal electrical needs with external supplies and loads;
- and,
- v) a control system to manage all of the above listed subsystems and respond to varying internal and external demands, interruptions and events.
A system integrating a fossil-fueled or supplied industrial process plant (i.e, steel, aluminum, cement, paper, fertilizer, petrochemical, hydrogen, etc.) with:
- i) a post-combustion, or use, carbon dioxide capture subsystem that carbonizes an acidic, basic or buffer, liquid electrolyte solution;
- ii) a decarbonizing subsystem that regenerates the carbonized electrolyte solution;
- iii) a thermal management subsystem that integrates the power plant waste heat and/or external heat sources with the thermal needs of the other subsystems;
- iv) a power management subsystem that integrates and optimizes all internal electrical needs with external supplies and loads;
- and,
- v) a control system to manage all of the above listed subsystems and respond to varying internal and external demands, interruptions and events.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.