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CPOTE2026 | 9th International Conference on
Contemporary Problems of Thermal Engineering
23-25 September 2026 | Kraków, Poland | In-person

Abstract CPOTE2026-16070-A

Process modelling and simulations of an integrated oxy-combustion CHP plant

Magdalena STROJNY, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Paweł GŁADYSZ, AGH University of Kraków, Poland
Amy BRUNSVOLD, SINTEF Energy Research, Norway
Tomasz CHMIELNIAK, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Karol SZTEKLER, AGH University of Kraków, Poland

This work presents the process modelling and simulation of an integrated combined heat and power (CHP) plant under different fuel and carbon capture configurations. The study was developed using the gPROMS Process modelling environment and is based on a reference coal-fired CHP plant with a thermal capacity of approximately 300 MWth and an electrical capacity of 100 MWe. First, a reference model of a hard coal-fired CHP plant was developed and used as a baseline for further analyses. Subsequently, hard coal was replaced with biomass to represent a common approach of fuel switching in order to decrease CO2 emissions. In the next step, a post-combustion carbon capture unit based on monoethanolamine (MEA) absorption was integrated with the CHP plant. The results indicate that the integration of the MEA-based CO2 capture system leads to a significant reduction in the available thermal output, of approximately 30%, while the decrease in electrical power generation remains relatively small. Finally, an oxy-combustion configuration was investigated through a black-box model of an oxy-MILD boiler which was developed based on results from CFD simulation results and subsequently integrated with the previously developed reference CHP model. The simulations show that the boiler capacity decreases by approximately 10% compared with the conventional configuration. As a consequence, the thermal capacity of the integrated CHP plant is reduced by approximately 15% relative to the reference case. The developed modelling framework enables a consistent comparison of conventional power plant with technologies aiming to reduce CO2 emissions. The results provide insight into the performance penalties associated with the integration of low-carbon and carbon capture technologies and demonstrate the potential of combining detailed CFD results with system-level process modelling.

Keywords: Process modelling, Carbon capture, Simulation, Oxyfuel combustion, Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
Acknowledgment: This work was developed within the project BioNETzero, which is an EU-funded project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement N. 101146616.