Accelerating to Net Zero: Model-Based Engineering Solutions for Ccus

Efforts in capturing CO₂ from anthropogenic sources, including from the air, are being intensified to support the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. The decarbonization of advanced economies requires fundamental changes in the chemical process industry. With many of the transformative technologies required still in their infancy, there is a need for solutions that support a reduction in GHG emissions in the immediate future.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) can help reduce emissions from today’s fossil-based production methods. By their very nature, CCUS facilities need to be tightly integrated into other process systems. This raises questions on how best to maximize the efficiency of the overall system, what impact the CCUS process has on process dynamics and control, and how best to reduce capital and operating expenditure. Questions like these require a sufficiently accurate representation of the process to predict plant performance accurately and operate close to the true limits. Model-based techniques have been playing an increasingly important role across the entire process lifecycle to support, for example, the exploration of alternative design and operating decisions to support the deployment of solvent-based CO₂ capture units.

This presentation presents how digital design techniques help to map system interactions, predict process responses in highly transient scenarios, and optimize equipment and system designs. Based on this information, all stakeholders can confidently navigate the road to decarbonization.