EVALUATION OF A POST COMBUSTION CO2 CAPTURE PROCESS THROUGH MODELING AND SIMULATION

In order to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, this study simulates a CO2 capture process from a NGCC power plant by post-combustion, using absorption by monoethanolamine (MEA) in Aspen Plus®. 91.7% of the CO2 is regenerated with 98.2% purity, so CO2 can be reused to produce valuable compounds. Finally, the sensitivity analysis takes into account the influence of the solvent flow over the reboiler duty, purity and mass flow of CO2 captured and the economic analysis evaluate the plant’s viability.