Assessment of reasonable opportunities for direct air capture
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چکیده
where i represents the input stream, r is the retentate, and p is the permeate. Minimum work is calculated from Eq. 2, and the real work is estimated from available pilot-scale data sourced from IECM. Specifically, the work attributed to any separation process can be interpreted as the incremental loss in net plant power output relative to a non-capture reference plant, levelized by the amount of CO2 captured per unit time:
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