A comprehensive study of the effect of chemical impurities on selection and sizing of centrifugal machines for supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipelines

摘要

Compressors and booster pumps constitute the "heart" of the supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipeline network because they consume most of the required energy input. In other words, most of the operating expenditure for the transport pipeline goes to the running of compressors and pumps. The long-term economic feasibility of running such pipeline networks is achievable only if operating costs linked to the energy consumption of both machines can be kept as low as possible. Energy consumption can be kept as low as possible by sizing compressors and booster pumps optimally to ensure that power losses in both machines are minimized.