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Techno-economic comparison of 100% renewable urea production processes

handle: 11568/1075264
Abstract Urea is widely used in agriculture, industry, and food, while it is also a potential fuel. Large-scale urea production relies on fossil fuels, thus there is a strong need for green urea given the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources. A potential alternative is biomass-to-urea; however, it cannot fully convert the biomass carbon into urea. To achieve full carbon conversion, innovative integrated biomass- and power-to-urea processes are designed conceptually. The two green urea production processes are evaluated techno-economically and compared with state-of-the-art methane-to-urea. The results show that the methane-to-urea achieves a system efficiency of 58% (LHV), while biomass-to-urea only has 39% (LHV) with unconverted biomass carbon of up to 60%. The integrated power- and biomass-to-urea has outstanding heat integration performance which fixes all biomass carbon into urea, with an efficiency enhanced up to 53%. Due to the electricity demand, the levelized cost of the urea of integrated biomass- and power-to-urea is 15 – 38 and 58 – 87% points higher than those of the biomass-to-urea and methane-to-urea for the scale of 10 – 60 MWth urea production. The available annual hours and electricity price of renewable electricity have a significant impact on the levelized cost of the urea. When the available annual hours decrease from 7200 to 3600 with an electricity price of 73 $/MWh, the levelized cost of urea increases on average by 13% from 51 $/GJ with the plant capacity being 10 – 60 MWth urea. However, when electricity price is reduced from 73 $/MWh to 35 $/MWh with available annual hours of 3600, the levelized cost decreases on average by 15% from 59 $/GJ with the same plant capacity.
- North China Electric Power University China (People's Republic of)
- Università degli studi di Salerno Italy
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL Switzerland
- North China Electric Power University China (People's Republic of)
- University of Pisa Italy
solid-oxide electrolyzer, power-to-urea, design, gasification, renewable urea, power, electrolysis, cost, Renewable urea; Methane-to-urea; Biomass-to-urea; Power-to-urea; Power-to-hydrogen; Solid-oxide electrolyzer, biomass, ammonia production, biomass-to-urea, systems, power-to-hydrogen, optimization, methane-to-urea, performance
solid-oxide electrolyzer, power-to-urea, design, gasification, renewable urea, power, electrolysis, cost, Renewable urea; Methane-to-urea; Biomass-to-urea; Power-to-urea; Power-to-hydrogen; Solid-oxide electrolyzer, biomass, ammonia production, biomass-to-urea, systems, power-to-hydrogen, optimization, methane-to-urea, performance
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