ABSTRACT
The drastic rise in power generation that is expected on a global scale will also lead to a strong increase in CO2 emissions due to the high share of fossil energy sources used, which is quite contrary to the objectives of climate protection. In this dilemma, zero-CO₂ power generation technologies might permit to make a decisive step on the road toward a necessary CO₂ reduction.
In the integrated ENCAP project (EU FP 6), a consortium of engineering companies, power plant manufacturers and research institutes lead-managed by RWE Power is drawing up technical IGCC/IRCC concepts including CO₂ capture and spurring the necessary development of new gas turbine burners for the combustion of hydrogen-rich gases. Based on the working structure within ENCAP, this paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, the results of the process development for the different concepts based on hard coal, lignite and natural gas including CO₂ capture is presented giving the technical and economic key figures of the processes. In the second part, the current status of burner development for the combustion of H₂-rich gases within ENCAP is given