In this work, a novel energetic–environmental–economic
assessment methodology for different processes integrating carbon
capture and compression was proposed. It was found that for acquiring
high-pressure liquid CO2 products, the pressurized desorption
(PD) process is better than conventional atmospheric desorption. Based
on this, quantitative and comprehensive evaluation and comparison
between PD and cryogenic distillation (CD) processes of CO2 concentrations ranging from 50 to 90% were analyzed. The results
indicated that the PD process is more energy-intensive than the CD
process due to the high regeneration heat. Meanwhile, the green degree
analysis results showed that the CD process exhibits an environmental
superiority over the PD process when the CO2 concentration
exceeds 50%. According to the cost analysis, the CD process presents
an almost exponential drop in the total capture cost (TCC) as the
CO2 content increases, but the PD process is insensitive.
Moreover, we developed a TCC model, taking the feed gas composition
and flow rates as variables. It can be seen that as the flow rates
of the feed gas are less than 1800 kmol/h, the PD process is more
cost-effective than the CD process over a wide range below 73.02%
CO2 composition, providing a quantitative method to guide
the optimal process selection and design.