ABOUT JUPITER OXYGEN
Jupiter Oxygen is a privately held Illinois company that has developed and pioneered a revolutionary technology that makes it both practical and cost effective for electric power plants to capture CO2, have ultra low emissions and save fuel. Jupiter Oxygen is a recognized leader in the development, application and use of oxy-fuel technology worldwide. Jupiter’s expertise lies in its continued research, development and everyday use of oxy-fuel combustion.
Experimenting and developing the patented oxy-fuel process began in the mid-1990’s as a way to cut fuel costs and lower emissions at an aluminum recycling and manufacturing business and a patent licensee. Jupiter’s technology has been in use at the aluminum plant since 1997, and is now emerging as the most promising environmental control technology for use in both coal and gas fired electric power plants.
By replacing air with almost pure oxygen in the combustion process, heat transfer is maximized, and energy efficiency is significantly improved. Flue gas volumes are substantially reduced, and CO2 is concentrated. This unique process enables 95% of CO2 emission reduction, and key air pollutant control for coal-fired power plants. Jupiter has worked for almost two decades with international experts in government and industry to advance low-carbon energy solutions for coal.
Jupiter Oxygen realizes that coal is an important component for energy security in the US and in many countries internationally. Jupiter Oxygen is further motivated by the International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Outlook, which projects increased coal consumption in emerging economies, such as India, for the next decades. Providing cost-effective carbon capture solutions for coal-fired power plants will be crucial for achieving ambitious environmental and global climate protection goals.
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
In 1997, Jupiter’s technology moved from invention to daily use in large industrial melting furnaces, Since 2001, Jupiter has taken its technology from industrial furnaces to fossil fuel steam boilers and electric power plant applications. In 2002, the company tested its oxy-fuel technology in a steam boiler using oxygen instead of air, firing with both natural gas and coal. These successful power plant quality steam tests were followed by additional testing in 2004 that proved that it is both practical and cost effective to capture CO2. Jupiter has achieved its developmental goals for its patented oxy-fuel technology with coal and other fossil fuels, i.e. to greatly reduce NOx and other pollutant emissions even without carbon capture, prove that CO2 can be effectively and economically captured, and to improve boiler energy efficiency in order to save fuel. The results demonstrate a practical and economic solution to clean up fossil fuel power plants carbon emissions and key pollutants in an integrated system.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Jupiter Oxygen Corporation’s patented fossil fuel combustion technology uses a high temperature flame with 95% to 100% pure oxygen for combustion while air is excluded. Therefore, there is no airborne nitrogen. Nitrogen uses energy during combustion, thereby reducing the amount of energy available to be transferred to the water tubes for the making of steam. Lower nitrogen means that more combustion energy is available for making steam. The oxy-coal flame is at a much higher temperature and generates far more radiant energy transfer than an air-coal flame [also true using other fuels]. Radiant heat transfer is far more efficient than convective heat transfer. (Note that the higher flame temperature can be safely used for power plant retrofits with existing materials and existing process temperatures). Furthermore, Jupiter’s combustion technology operates at or very close to stoichiometry and creates longer residence times. This means that there is a more efficient burn of the fuel and more time for the energy generated to be absorbed as the heated gas passes through the boiler.
These four factors [reduction of nitrogen at combustion, greater radiant heat transfer, stoichiometric oxygen-fossil fuel ratio and longer residence times] mean that Jupiter Oxygen’s technology makes boiler combustion become much more efficient and use significantly less fuel to create the desired megawatts.
In addition, exit gas emission clean-up with back-end technologies are more efficient and less costly because of lowered NOx at combustion with air excluded, lower pollutants due to the fuel reduction, reduced exit gas volumes and the changed composition of the exit gases.
The Jupiter Oxygen patented technology also results in more concentrated CO2, resulting in less expense capture and sequestration. Initial test results showed a tenfold increase in CO2 concentration.
OXY-FUEL APPLICATIONS
With Jupiter’s Oxy-Fuel Technology Development achieving a significant reduction in fossil fuel usage and challenging environmental effects, technology transfer then was made from industrial melting furnaces to fossil fuel steam generators and power plants, as well as waste transformation facilities, focusing on energy efficiency and emission benefits.
Jupiter Oxygen’s mission is to promote these energy saving and greenhouse gas avoidance techniques throughout the industry, paying particular attention to those businesses that are highly energy intensive.
- Power Plants
- Waste Transformation
- Industrial Furnaces
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