Greener Cleaner: A Zero Emission Power Plant

• Fatima Saeed
• Munira Jimjimo
• Peter Durosinmi
• Reshma Ravi

Since the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide has been released in huge amount into the atmosphere and it has been causing many problems such as global warming and ocean acidity among many others. These effects are being felt in the current society severely-rise of the sea level, extinction of coral reefs. The main cause for this rise is the burning of fossil fuel to produce power. The purpose of this project is to commercialize a power plant called the Allam Cycle that has a zero emission of CO2 and runs by recycling 95% of the CO2 to produce power while the rest is used in the production of methanol. Methanol is one of the most used chemicals in industries since 1800s, and the demand for commercial methanol is high in China as the growth of olefin and formaldehyde production has been growing drastically over the last years. The goal of this project is to optimize the process profitability and sustainability of burning natural gas and methanol production. In this process, the two plants are combined to produce methanol and electricity in sustainable manner. To optimize the process, the electricity produced from the Allam cycle which is 247 MW will be used to power both plants and the rest will be sold for profit. Both plants will have zero emission as all the produced CO2 will be used in the production of methanol. Therefore, more product and less waste. Overall, this project will have zero greenhouse emissions, improved efficiency, and higher profitability.