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Orbital Achieves 53.7% Improvement in CO₂ Concentration Prediction Accuracy 

20 Apr 2025

Goals

The Imperial College ABB Carbon Capture Pilot Plant is a research-scale facility designed to demonstrate post-combustion CO₂ capture using monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent systems. This study aimed to:

Improve upon CO₂ concentration prediction against Imperial's State-Of-The-Art Model 

Benchmark Orbital’s performance against current state-of-the-art simulation-based optimisation and anomaly detection methods (e.g., TimesNet, DAE-LSTM).

Process Background

The pilot plant simulates a full post-combustion carbon capture loop. Flue gas enters the absorber column (E101), where CO₂ is absorbed by lean MEA. The rich MEA is then pre-heated and sent to the stripper column (E100), where CO₂ is desorbed and sent to storage. The regenerated MEA is recycled back to the absorber.

Results

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improvement in CO₂ concentration prediction

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Accuracy in early failure detection

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Applied Computing Technologies is a remote first company headquartered in London, UK

© Applied Computing Technologies 2025

Applied Computing Technologies is a remote first company headquartered in London, UK