CO2 capture and natural gas treatment in the presence of sulfur
Master project
Context
An industrial site, located in France, uses locally extracted methane-rich gas. This gas has a high content of sulphur compounds when compared to the standard natural gas from the grid. The presence of sulphur limits the local use of the extracted gas. Further, it cannot be injected into gas grid without sulphur treatment. The grid injection of this gas also requires CO2 removal to achieve the grid quality.
In this project, a process model will be developed for the sulphur treatment and CO2 capture from the extracted gas. The process design and operation will be optimized to achieve high process efficiency and low cost of gas treatment. Finally, best possible solutions will be identified to treat and valorise this gas, and to limit the sulphur emissions.
The project
This project will be organised in the following steps.
- Analysis and understanding of the research problem.
- Develop model for gas treatment (sulphur removal) and CO2 capture.
- Optimization of the gas treatment process.
- Integration of gas treatment process with industrial site.
Skills
- Experience with flowsheeting software (e.g., Aspen Plus)
- Understanding of energy integration and process optimization
- Results interpretation and report writing
- Coding skills: R
- Lectures: Modelling and Optimisation of Energy systems, Energy Conversion and/or Renewable Energy
Administrative
This project is a part of collaborative research work between IPESE/EPFL and Terega (France). The project will be supervised by Shivom (IPESE/EPFL) and Myriam (TEREGA, France). If interested, please send your CV, with short motivation letter, to Shivom/Myriam.
Location
This research work will be conducted at EPFL, Sion. Student will discuss his/her work with collaborators in Terega, in bi-weekly video meetings.
Supervisors
Dr. Shivom Sharma, shivom.sharma@epfl.ch
Dr. Myriam Etancelin, myriam.etancelin@terega.fr