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Cement kiln calcination + CO2 liquefaction

CementCalcinationRotary kilnCO2 captureCarbon capture
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Preheated limestone (CaCO3) enters an indirectly-heated rotary kiln that calcines it toward CaO, releasing a CO2-rich off-gas; the gas is knocked free of moisture, then compressed and cooled to liquefy the CO2 for transport/storage. Honesty notes: (1) this specific kiln model (rotary_kiln) heats via an indirect utility-temperature wall duty (an NTU model), not a simulated internal flame, so no combustion stoichiometry runs inside it here — real oxy-fuel combustion IS modeled elsewhere in this codebase (fired_heater's oxidant="oxy_co2" mode: near-pure-O2 combustion diluted by a recycled-CO2 stream instead of air's nitrogen), see allam-fetvedt-cycle for a real working example of it; (2) the calcination conversion shown (~21%) is the real, kinetically-limited result of this model's validated Arrhenius parameters at this residence time/temperature, not a claim of complete calcination — a real cement plant's preheater-tower-plus-kiln train achieves far higher calcination degree than one rotary-kiln unit alone models here; (3) CO2 must be compressed above roughly 5.2 atm before it can be liquefied by cooling at all (it has no liquid phase at 1 atm at any temperature), which the compressor stage here reflects.

The flowsheet

The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

Limestone FEED
feed
gas
solid
KILN
Clinker
Cool1
Knockout
Condensate
CO2 COMP
Cool2
Liquefy
VENT GAS
Liquid CO2

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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