CEMEX Balcones Carbon Capture Initial Engineering Design Study
Project Highlights
- Sargent & Lundy’s first cement plant project.
- The carbon capture system location/layout was very challenging.
- Low water rights, combined with drought restrictions, limited the water available for cooling.
- Power availability presented a unique design and coordination challenge.
Project Description
Sargent & Lundy supported an initial engineering design study to evaluate the retrofit of MTR’s membrane-based post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology to the CEMEX Balcones cement plant Kiln 2. The CO2 capture plant was designed to treat the entire flue gas flow from Kiln 2 and was estimated to capture 2,039 tonnes/day of CO2, or approximately 75% of current CO2 emissions from the kiln. It was assumed for this study that the CO2 would be pumped off-site and transferred by pipeline to either a CO2 storage complex for geological sequestration or elsewhere for enhanced oil recovery.
Project Scope
The overall goal of the project was to develop an initial design of the system to demonstrate the economic feasibility of constructing and operating the MTR CO2 capture technology at a cement plant.
Sargent & Lundy performed the overall project management, the preliminary engineering and design of all balance of plant components, and provided input and oversight on other project deliverables, including:
- 3D Model, overall site plan and general arrangement drawings.
- Developed the flue gas (composition) design basis & project design criteria.
- Auxiliary power sourcing study.
- Water supply, cooling water design, & wastewater treatment evaluations.
- Piping & instrumentation diagrams.
- Electrical one-line drawings.
- Electrical load list.
- Instrument and input/output lists.
- Major equipment datasheets.
- Permit matrix and environmental health and safety assessment.
- Resource workforce plan & project execution schedule.
- Constructability review.
- Capital cost estimate and operations and maintenance estimates.
- Study summary report.
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