Life Cycle Assessment of applying CO 2 post-combustion capture to the Spanish cement production

García-Gusano, Diego; Garraín, Daniel; Herrera, Israel; Cabal, Helena; Lechón, Yolanda

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.11.056

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“…The results of this study show that MEA-based post-combustion carbon capture can reduce more CO 2 emissions and some other environmental impacts; however, it can also bring more toxicity potential to people. The above result is in line with that of another study [28], although each was based on a different classification method of environmental impact. The CML2001 method was deployed in this study and ILCD method was deployed in the reference study.…”

Section: Prospect Analysissupporting

confidence: 90%

Environmental Performance Analysis of Cement Production with CO2 Capture and Storage Technology in a Life-Cycle Perspective

Middleton

2019

Sustainability

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Cement manufacturing is one of the most energy and CO2 intensive industries. With the growth of cement production, CO2 emissions are increasing rapidly too. Carbon capture and storage is the most feasible new technology option to reduce CO2 emissions in the cement industry. More research on environmental impacts is required to provide the theoretical basis for the implementation of carbon capture and storage in cement production. In this paper, GaBi software and scenario analysis were employed to quantitatively analyze and compare the environmental impacts of cement production with and without carbon capture and storage technology, from the perspective of a life-cycle assessment; aiming to promote sustainable development of the cement industry. Results of two carbon capture and storage scenarios show decreases in the impacts of global warming potential and some environmental impacts. However, other scenarios show a significant increase in other environmental impacts. In particular, post-combustion carbon capture technology can bring a more pronounced increase in toxicity potential. Therefore, effective measures must be taken into account to reduce the impact of toxicity when carbon capture and storage is employed in cement production. CO2 transport and storage account for only a small proportion of environmental impacts. For post-combustion carbon capture, most of the environmental impacts come from the unit of combined heat and power and carbon capture, with the background production of MonoEthanolAmine contributing significantly. In combined heat and power plants, natural gas is more advantageous than a 10% coal-saving, and thermal efficiency is a key parameter affecting the environmental impacts. Future research should focus on exploring cleaner and effective absorbents or seeking the alternative fuel in combined heat and power plants for post-combustion carbon capture. If the power industry is the first to deploy carbon capture and storage, oxy-combustion carbon capture is an excellent choice for the cement industry.

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Section: Prospect Analysissupporting

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Environmental Performance Analysis of Cement Production with CO2 Capture and Storage Technology in a Life-Cycle Perspective

Middleton

2019

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“…By this way, we may be able to reduce the adverse environmental impacts stemming from cement (74%-93%) and sand (0.3%-2%) consumption in the total LCA of EOL material-based concretes. The minimum contribution of sand to the entire environmental assessment of concrete makes this issue important to concrete design [111][112][113].…”

Section: Life Cycle Assessment (Lca)mentioning

confidence: 99%

End-of-Life Materials Used as Supplementary Cementitious Materials in the Concrete Industry

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A sustainable solution for the global construction industry can be partial substitution of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) by use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) sourced from industrial end-of-life (EOL) products that contain calcareous, siliceous and aluminous materials. Candidate EOL materials include fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), natural pozzolanic materials like sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA), palm oil fuel ash (POFA), rice husk ash (RHA), mine tailings, marble dust, construction and demolition debris (CDD). Studies have revealed these materials to be cementitious and/or pozzolanic in nature. Their use as SCMs would decrease the amount of cement used in the production of concrete, decreasing carbon emissions associated with cement production. In addition to cement substitution, EOL products as SCMs have also served as coarse and also fine aggregates in the production of eco-friendly concretes.

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“…In Portugal, biomass fly ashes are considered a waste product without economic value (Tarelho et al, 2012) and therefore there are no flows from the biomass power plant allocated to its production. The same does not happen with hard coal fly ashes, as they have a market value and consequently a percentage of the power plant's flows are allocated to their productions (García-Gusano et al, 2015).…”

Section: Environmental Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative environmental life-cycle analysis of concretes using biomass and coal fly ashes as partial cement replacement material

Teixeira

Mateus

Camões

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

187

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Life Cycle Assessment of applying CO 2 post-combustion capture to the Spanish cement production

Cited by 83 publications

References 11 publications

Environmental Performance Analysis of Cement Production with CO2 Capture and Storage Technology in a Life-Cycle Perspective

Environmental Performance Analysis of Cement Production with CO2 Capture and Storage Technology in a Life-Cycle Perspective

End-of-Life Materials Used as Supplementary Cementitious Materials in the Concrete Industry

Comparative environmental life-cycle analysis of concretes using biomass and coal fly ashes as partial cement replacement material

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