The Second APP Oxy-fuel Capacity Building Course

Monday/Tuesday 15/16 March, 2010; Xijiao Hotel, CHINA

 

 

LATEST NEWS UPDATE

 

A Successful Course

With over 70 attendees from power stations, research organisations and universities across China, a most successful course was held.  Powerpoint presentations, in Chinese and English, are given as links on the Course Schedule below.

 

 

For those wanting background reading, please download the introductory lecture and the lecture on the progress to oxy-fuel technology deployment.  The final session will also consider developments towards oxy-fuel application in China, and please download the latest report on CCS in China from the the Global CCS Institute and a recent presentation on the costs of CCS transport and storage in China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

 

An oxy-fuel course will be held at Xijiao Hotel Beijing, CHINA in March 2010. The course is arranged through Tsinghua University with the support of the Department of Thermal Engineering and also the China Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI) , Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

 

 

Oxy-fuel technology is a leading carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology

 

Conventional pf coal-fired boilers use air for combustion in which the nitrogen from the air dilutes the CO2 concentration in the flue gas. In oxy-fuel technology, combustion with oxygen typically of greater than 95% purity and recycled flue gas is used for combustion of the fuel. By recycling the flue gas, a gas consisting mainly of CO2 and water is generated, ready for sequestration without stripping of the CO2 from the gas stream. The recycled flue gas is used to control flame temperature and make up the volume of the missing N2 to ensure there is enough gas to carry the heat through the boiler. Demonstrations pilot-scale studies will lead to commercial deployment.

 

The course is targeted at delegates from Asian countries where understanding of oxy-fuel technology is developing, including China, India, Korea and SE Asian countries and follows the most successful course held at KEPRI in Korea in February 2009.

 

The course covers practical and scientific aspects, and provides the needs of two groups of participants.

 

The morning of the first day, Monday March 15, covers PRACTICAL OXYFUEL TECHNOLOGY and details the status of the technology, and outlines the engineering for practical engineers working in power stations and for government policy makers. This session will have translated notes and translated lectures into Chinese.

 

Researchers from government laboratories and universities and practical engineers wanting more detail should attend the full course (including the PRACTICAL SESSION) on Monday March 15 and Tuesday March 16 which also includes the SCIENCE OF OXYFUEL TECHNOLOGY.

 

The afternoon of the first day will outline underpinning science, laboratory, mathematical modeling and pilot-scale evaluation of coal. The second day, Tuesday March 16, will detail research developments, and the status of current international demonstrations, a session with a panel of experts to answer questions nominated prior by delegates.

 

It has not proven possible to arrange a plant visit proposed for Wednesday March 17.

 

The course is free, and is sponsored by the APP OFWG, but delegates must cover their travel and accommodation costs. The course and dinner will be held at the Xijiao Hotel, Beijing.  When booking a room at the Xijiao Hotel, please mention that you will attending the Oxy-fuel course.  For directions to the Xijiao Hotel from the airport, including the directions in Chinese (to show the taxi driver) please download and print Airport to Xijiao Taxi Directions. 

 

Confirmed lecturers include

Professor Terry Wall, University of Newcastle, Australia

Rohan Stanger, Oxyfuel working group, University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Stanley Santos, IEAGHG, England

Professor Ningsheng Cai, Tsinghua University, China

Professor Joerg Maier, University of  Stuttgart, Germany

Professor Monica Lupion, Fundacion de la Energia, CIUDEN, Spain

Mr Toshihiko Yamada, IHI, Japan

Peter Holland-Lloyd & David Sturgeon, Doosan Babcock, Scotland

Kevin McCaulaey, Babcock and Wilcox, USA

Vince White, Air Products, UK

 

 

For more information on the course, accommodation and transport see the Chinese Combustion Institute website.  

 

 

 

Draft schedule

(available for download)

 

PRACTICAL OXYFUEL TECHNOLOGY

Monday March 15, 8.30am- 12.30pm

(with Chinese translation)

 

 

SCIENCE OF OXYFUEL TECHNOLOGY I

Monday March 15, 2pm-5.30pm

 

 

SCIENCE OF OXYFUEL TECHNOLOGY II,

Tuesday 8.30am-5.30pm,  March 16

 

If you are interested in attending please email your nomination with details to OFWG@newcastle.edu.au as soon as possible and include your name, position, organisation, contact details (including email), your involvement and interest in oxy-fuel technology, and nominated questions you would put to the international panel.

Accepted nominees will be notified in December 2009.