Rosemount™ 470XA
Gas Chromatograph
Carbon Purity for CCUS
Application Note
The Rosemount 470XA Gas Chromatograph is a compact and reliable solution designed for simple
but precise gas analysis in fiscal and custody transfer applications. With global initiatives focused
on the reduction of carbon footprints, basic GC applications are moving beyond natural gas
analysis and into roles supporting the business of carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
CCUS – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage While some contaminants are specific to the technology
used in capturing the CO2, others are more common.
As part of the effort in mitigating the impact of global
Nitrogen, methane, and hydrogen have lower critical
climate change there is concerted focus on reducing
temperatures for example, and require increased pipe
greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) gas,
strength, while non-condensables like argon increase
a product of both natural biological life on Earth and
the amount of compression work required.
human-driven industrial processes is at the center of
many efforts. Driven by both regulatory and social
pressures, industry and individuals are moving to
reduce their carbon footprints by reducing CO2
emissions, capturing and reusing or storing emissions
they do make, and buying or selling government-
sponsored credits for CO2 emissions made or reduced.
Historically one of the larger industrial uses for CO2
has been in Enhanced Oil Recovery, where the CO2 gas
is pumped into oil reservoirs to help remove latent oil
left after the easily recovered oil has been harvested.
With the global spotlight on reducing CO2 emissions,
other applications for CO2 in the plastics, concrete, Figure 1 Rosemount 470XA Gas Chromatograph
biofuels and methanol industries are receiving more
attention, while strategies to permanently sequester Figure 2 - Phase Diagram of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
excess CO2 in underground storage facilities are seeing
implementation. In almost all cases the issue of getting
the CO2 from its creation to its final use must be Super-
critical
addressed. Critical
fluid
72.79 atm point
Transporting CO2
Pressure (atm)
Solid Phase Liquid Phase
Large scale transportation of CO2 is typically done by
pipeline. Due to the chemical properties of carbon
dioxide, it must be transported in its supercritical state Triple
- where it exhibits the properties of a gas and a liquid 5.11 atm point Gas Phase
simultaneously - in tightly controlled temperature -56.57 °C 30.98 °C
and pressure ranges. One factor that greatly affects Temperature (°C)
the pipeline transportability of CO2 is its purity – how
Figure 2 Phase diagram of Carbon Dioxide, showing temperature and pressure
much of the gas is CO2, how much is composed of requirements for supercritical fluid state
impurities, and what type of impurities are present.
Rosemount 470XA Gas Chromatograph
Carbon Purity with the Rosemount 470XA
A standard analysis available on the Rosemount 470XA can measure and verify the purity of CO2 gas before
transport, after transport, or at custody transfer points along the route. The CO2 measurement is based on a full
compositional analysis rather than a determination by differences, so accurate and precise measurements reduce
uncertainties in custody transfer and provide key compositional measurements for flow metering. The components
and ranges of CCU gas stream analysis are shown in Table 1 below, while an example chromatogram is illustrated
in Figure 4. Repeatability for the CO2 measurement is as low as ±0.1% when CO2 concentrations are above 50 mole
%. Best of all, the carbon purity analysis is easy to order – just specify the CCU application on the 470XA model
configuration string.
Stream Component Measured Range (Mole %) y = 7E+07x + 1E+08
R2 = 1
C3+ 0–1% 6.8E+09
6.7E+09
Hydrogen 0–4%
Peak Area
6.6E+09
Nitrogen 0.01–7%
6.5E+09
6.4E+09
Argon + Carbon Monoxide 0.01–4% 6.3E+09
6.2E+09
Methane 0.01–4% 6.1E+09
Carbon Dioxide 20–100% 90.00000 92.00000 94.00000 96.00000 98.00000 100.00000 102.00000
CO2 Measured Concentration
Ethane 0–1%
Table 1 Components and ranges measured by the CCU carbon purity application Figure 3 Linearity plot of the CO2 measurement
Figure 4 The standard chromatogram
produced by the CCU analysis with an insert
showing the complete CO2 peak.
The Rosemount 470XA can measure carbon purity and support carbon capture, utilization, and storage, helping to
reduce environmental emissions and your carbon footprint, making it an ideal solution for your CCUS application
needs. Contact your local Emerson representative today to inquire about this product or if you have any questions.
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