Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Centers
Funding Agency:
- Department of Energy
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of many approaches critical to significantly reducing domestic and global CO2 emissions. However, the energy and capital cost associated with state-of-the-art carbon capture systems represents a barrier to wide deployment. Performance of these systems in an industrial/utility environment is also required to establish experience using capture technologies and develop robust data sets that can be used to minimize costs and validate performance and environmental risks while scaling up carbon capture processes to commercially relevant scales. In order to fully address these issues, DOE-FECM/NETL through its Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Programs is investigating the establishment of Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Centers to cost-effectively research and evaluate, in an integrated process, the technical efficacy of advanced systems and components under relevant industrial or power plant operating conditions.
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is focused on the development of test centers through three AOIs:
AOI-1. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at an Electric Generating Unit,
AOI-2. Enabling Capital Improvements at Existing Carbon Capture Test Facilities, and
AOI-3. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at a Cement Manufacturing Facility.
Prospective test center sites should only be submitted to one (1) AOI. Applications proposing the same test center site to multiple AOIs will not be accepted.
AOI-1. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at an Electric Generating Unit
Efforts sought under AOI-1 are focused on providing flue gas testing capabilities for engineering scale testing on flue gas streams representative of a domestic coal and/or natural gas-based electric generating unit. Applicants to this AOI must have an existing solvent-based absorber-regenerator system capable of processing a minimum 5,000 lb/hr flue gas slipstream. In addition, the proposed facility should have or be able to add test infrastructure capable of providing actual flue gas from the combustion of natural gas and/or coal for simultaneous slipstream tests of multiple advanced post-combustion CO2 capture, CDR, and conversion technologies, components, materials and instruments.
The Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Testing center will test individual or integrated carbon capture (e.g., point source or carbon dioxide removal [CDR]) and conversion technologies to reduce technical risks and accelerate their demonstration and deployment.
All test capabilities must be available for operation on a multi-day, continuous, 24-hour-a-day basis. Baseline flue gas CO2 composition should be in the 4 – 6% CO2 range for natural gas-based testing and 12 – 15% CO2 range for coal. A minimum of 30% cost share will be required for this AOI. Cost share contribution greater than the minimum percentage required is strongly encouraged and will be reviewed and may be assessed as part of the application merit review.
AOI-2. Enabling Capital Improvements at Existing Carbon Capture Test Facilities
Efforts sought under AOI-2 are focused on providing enhanced capabilities and infrastructure improvements at testing centers for engineering-scale testing on flue gas streams representative of a domestic electric generating unit. Applicants to this AOI should have or be able to add test infrastructure capable of providing actual flue gas from the combustion of natural gas and/or coal for simultaneous slipstream tests of multiple advanced post-combustion CO2 capture, CDR, and conversion technologies, components, materials and instruments. However, an existing solvent absorber-regenerator is not required.
Award Ceiling: $80,000,000
$ 127,500,000
10/31/2024 5:00 PM ET
All questions and answers related to this FOA will be posted on the FedConnect portal at: https://www.FedConnect.net. DOE will attempt to respond to a question within three business days, unless a similar question and answer has already been posted on the website.