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Objectives of the ADECOS project
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Motivation
Coal will also in the future be the dominating resource for power generation, since it will be available at stable prices still for many years and without strong dependance from exporting countries. As a second point, renewables cannot cover the huge and permanently growing energy demand of industrial countries.
Therefor, climate protection as a public concern with the main objective to reduce CO2 emissions requires the development of new energy concepts. Efficiency enhancement of existing power plants alone will not be enough to reach the ambitious targets.
CO2 sequestration as a temporary solution
From the facts above it becomes clear that coal-fired power plants with CO2 separation could be an option and should be considered a temporary technology on the way to fully sustainable energy production. The so called oxyfuel process is one of these technologies.
The basic principle is combustion of fossil fuels with pure oxygen, which results in a highly-concentrated CO2 stream without nitrogen ballast as compared to conventional air-blown combustion. After further cleaning, the CO2 will be ready for storage in a way that the climate is not affected.
Research activities
The ADECOS project has the objective to make a comprehensive assessment of the oxyfuel technology with CO2 separation for coal. This includes experiments in laboratory and technical scale as well as theoretical investigation, modelling work and component design.
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