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Umwelt und Technik im Gleichklang, 2003
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use, 2014
the gap from a fossil fuel economy to a fossil-free economy. Presently, CO 2 capture technology i... more the gap from a fossil fuel economy to a fossil-free economy. Presently, CO 2 capture technology is under development. Besides biological and ocean sequestration the potential of geological structures suitable for sequestration is being explored. CO 2 capture is only suitable for large point sources like power plants. In principle there are a lot of technology options capturing CO 2 . But actually there is no technology available for commercial operation of large power plants. Thus a lot of R&D effort is still needed with the goal to select the most attractive options and to make them available for commercial operation. In the past, geological sequestration has attracted comparably less attention but is now starting to become an attractive technical option also in Germany. On the EU level, already the 5 th framework program supported research on sequestration. Geological sequestration involves artificial piping or injecting into large geological structures like depleted oil and gas fields, landfills, coal seams, mines and saline aquifers. Storage capacities of saline aquifers alone are likely to be as 1.5 to 8 times as high as will be needed over the next 100 years. On the other hand there are drawbacks, reaching from high costs of CCS to environmental impacts of storage and safety problems for next generations. The paper concentrates on CO 2 capture at power plants and geological sequestration and on its status and perspectives in Germany. In Germany, CCS is attracting increasing attention by politicians, researchers and economists after some years of thematic restraint. This is due to the increasing awareness, that on the one hand climate protection demands increasing efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions, and that on the other hand no technological option should be banned from a successful mix of technologies and economic incentives without comprehensible reasons. Therefore, the paper presents an overview on the sources of CO 2 in Germany, the electricity supply infrastructure, and storage capacities in different geological structures (chapt. 2) and discusses R&D challenges from a system analysis' perspective (chapt. 3). It describes EU policy with special consideration on R&D activities (chapt. 4) and it summarizes the status and R&D perspectives for CO 2 capture and sequestration in Germany (chapt. 5). Furthermore, it gives an overview on the CCS R&D program of Forschungszentrum Juelich (chapt. 6), concretizing its technology strategy with respect to materials research and process development, and explains how this program fits to EU and German climate change mitigation R&D policies. Moreover, it explains systems analysis' research priorities and describes the role of system analysis for policy advice with regard to CCS in Germany.
Die Analyse öffentlicher Einstellungen, der Akzeptanz und der Risikowahrnehmungen von energiepoli... more Die Analyse öffentlicher Einstellungen, der Akzeptanz und der Risikowahrnehmungen von energiepolitischen und -technischen Optionen gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Da die Akzeptanz von technischen Neuerungen in hoch technisierten Gesellschaften nicht mehr grundsätzlich vorausgesetzt werden kann, muss der Frage nach den Bedingungen gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz bei der Implementierung von neuen Technologien ein hoher Stellenwert eingeräumt werden. Gerade komplexe Großtechnologien, so die bisherigen Erfahrungen, weisen höhere Akzeptanzprobleme auf als andere Technikbereiche. Dies gilt insbesondere für die CO[Abtrennung und -Speicherung (Carbon Capture and Storage CCS). Bezüglich ihres kommerziellen Einsatzes im Kraftwerksbetrieb werden nicht nur Fragen der technologischen, rechtlichen und ökonomischen Machbarkeit aufgeworfen, sondern steht auch die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion.
Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 2009
In recent years a lot of new energy models have been developed to analyze climate change mitigati... more In recent years a lot of new energy models have been developed to analyze climate change mitigation strategies and the effects such strategies have on economic and technological development. Two main types of models can be identified: Top-down models that focus on the economic interactions within different sectors in an economy and bottom-up models that focus more on physical energy
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use, 2014
BWK: das Energie-Fachmagazin
Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) Die Emission von a... more Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) Die Emission von anthropogen erzeugtem Kohlendioxid (CO2) beträgt derzeit weltweit ca. 29 Mrd. t/a. Die derzeitige Nutzung von CO2 als Industriegas liegt demgegenüber bei ca. 20 Mio. t/a, als Chemierohstoff etwa bei 110 Mio. t/a. Beide Nutzungsbereiche leisten damit einen willkommenen, jedoch begrenzten Beitrag zur Reduktion der Kohlendioxidemission. Das Interesse an der Nutzung von Kohlendioxid (Carbon Capture and Re-use: CCR) liegt vielmehr darin begründet, dass mit CO2 ein potenzieller Wertstoff mit einem interessanten Anwendungsprofil und Wertschöpfungspotenzial für die chemische Industrie vorliegt, dessen wirtschaftliche Verwendung sich auch positiv auf die Bewertung von Strategien zur Reduktion von CO2-Emissionen mittels Abscheidung, Transport und Speicherung von CO2 (CCS) auswirken kann. Auf diese Weise kann aus dem Treibhausgas CO2 ein Rohstoff für die stoffliche Wertschöpfungskette werden ...
Energy Procedia, 2009
... possible solutions, • take factors and processes (eg trust, assessment of properties of the r... more ... possible solutions, • take factors and processes (eg trust, assessment of properties of the risk source and risk situation, cultural context) which influence the public intuitive risk perception of CCS into account • communicate explicitly the source of information about the ...
Energy Policy, 2010
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the social benefits of the German CO 2 refurbishment program... more The aim of this paper is to evaluate the social benefits of the German CO 2 refurbishment programme for the years 20052007. An extended inputoutput model is used to estimate the effect of the refurbishment works on public revenue via taxes and social security contributions. The ...
Energy Conversion and Management, 1996
Within the frame of the German IKARUS project a bottomup energy optimization model and a macroeco... more Within the frame of the German IKARUS project a bottomup energy optimization model and a macroeconomic simulation model based on the input-output approach have been developed. Under the restriction to reduce energy related CO2 emissions by 25 % until 2005, first model runs have been done for the German Previous States.
While Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies are being developed with the focus of capturi... more While Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies are being developed with the focus of capturing
and storing CO2 in huge quantities, new methods for the chemical exploitation of carbon dioxide
(CCU) are being developed in parallel. The intensified chemical or physical utilization of CO2 is
targeted at generating value from a limited part of the CO2 stream and developing better and more
efficient chemical processes with reduced CO2 footprint. Here, we compare the status of the three main
lines of CCS technologies with respect to efficiency, energy consumption, and technical feasibility as
well as the implications of CCS on the efficiency and structure of the energy supply chain.
Umwelt und Technik im Gleichklang, 2003
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use, 2014
the gap from a fossil fuel economy to a fossil-free economy. Presently, CO 2 capture technology i... more the gap from a fossil fuel economy to a fossil-free economy. Presently, CO 2 capture technology is under development. Besides biological and ocean sequestration the potential of geological structures suitable for sequestration is being explored. CO 2 capture is only suitable for large point sources like power plants. In principle there are a lot of technology options capturing CO 2 . But actually there is no technology available for commercial operation of large power plants. Thus a lot of R&D effort is still needed with the goal to select the most attractive options and to make them available for commercial operation. In the past, geological sequestration has attracted comparably less attention but is now starting to become an attractive technical option also in Germany. On the EU level, already the 5 th framework program supported research on sequestration. Geological sequestration involves artificial piping or injecting into large geological structures like depleted oil and gas fields, landfills, coal seams, mines and saline aquifers. Storage capacities of saline aquifers alone are likely to be as 1.5 to 8 times as high as will be needed over the next 100 years. On the other hand there are drawbacks, reaching from high costs of CCS to environmental impacts of storage and safety problems for next generations. The paper concentrates on CO 2 capture at power plants and geological sequestration and on its status and perspectives in Germany. In Germany, CCS is attracting increasing attention by politicians, researchers and economists after some years of thematic restraint. This is due to the increasing awareness, that on the one hand climate protection demands increasing efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions, and that on the other hand no technological option should be banned from a successful mix of technologies and economic incentives without comprehensible reasons. Therefore, the paper presents an overview on the sources of CO 2 in Germany, the electricity supply infrastructure, and storage capacities in different geological structures (chapt. 2) and discusses R&D challenges from a system analysis' perspective (chapt. 3). It describes EU policy with special consideration on R&D activities (chapt. 4) and it summarizes the status and R&D perspectives for CO 2 capture and sequestration in Germany (chapt. 5). Furthermore, it gives an overview on the CCS R&D program of Forschungszentrum Juelich (chapt. 6), concretizing its technology strategy with respect to materials research and process development, and explains how this program fits to EU and German climate change mitigation R&D policies. Moreover, it explains systems analysis' research priorities and describes the role of system analysis for policy advice with regard to CCS in Germany.
Die Analyse öffentlicher Einstellungen, der Akzeptanz und der Risikowahrnehmungen von energiepoli... more Die Analyse öffentlicher Einstellungen, der Akzeptanz und der Risikowahrnehmungen von energiepolitischen und -technischen Optionen gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Da die Akzeptanz von technischen Neuerungen in hoch technisierten Gesellschaften nicht mehr grundsätzlich vorausgesetzt werden kann, muss der Frage nach den Bedingungen gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz bei der Implementierung von neuen Technologien ein hoher Stellenwert eingeräumt werden. Gerade komplexe Großtechnologien, so die bisherigen Erfahrungen, weisen höhere Akzeptanzprobleme auf als andere Technikbereiche. Dies gilt insbesondere für die CO[Abtrennung und -Speicherung (Carbon Capture and Storage CCS). Bezüglich ihres kommerziellen Einsatzes im Kraftwerksbetrieb werden nicht nur Fragen der technologischen, rechtlichen und ökonomischen Machbarkeit aufgeworfen, sondern steht auch die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion.
Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 2009
In recent years a lot of new energy models have been developed to analyze climate change mitigati... more In recent years a lot of new energy models have been developed to analyze climate change mitigation strategies and the effects such strategies have on economic and technological development. Two main types of models can be identified: Top-down models that focus on the economic interactions within different sectors in an economy and bottom-up models that focus more on physical energy
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use, 2014
BWK: das Energie-Fachmagazin
Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) Die Emission von a... more Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) Die Emission von anthropogen erzeugtem Kohlendioxid (CO2) beträgt derzeit weltweit ca. 29 Mrd. t/a. Die derzeitige Nutzung von CO2 als Industriegas liegt demgegenüber bei ca. 20 Mio. t/a, als Chemierohstoff etwa bei 110 Mio. t/a. Beide Nutzungsbereiche leisten damit einen willkommenen, jedoch begrenzten Beitrag zur Reduktion der Kohlendioxidemission. Das Interesse an der Nutzung von Kohlendioxid (Carbon Capture and Re-use: CCR) liegt vielmehr darin begründet, dass mit CO2 ein potenzieller Wertstoff mit einem interessanten Anwendungsprofil und Wertschöpfungspotenzial für die chemische Industrie vorliegt, dessen wirtschaftliche Verwendung sich auch positiv auf die Bewertung von Strategien zur Reduktion von CO2-Emissionen mittels Abscheidung, Transport und Speicherung von CO2 (CCS) auswirken kann. Auf diese Weise kann aus dem Treibhausgas CO2 ein Rohstoff für die stoffliche Wertschöpfungskette werden ...
Energy Procedia, 2009
... possible solutions, • take factors and processes (eg trust, assessment of properties of the r... more ... possible solutions, • take factors and processes (eg trust, assessment of properties of the risk source and risk situation, cultural context) which influence the public intuitive risk perception of CCS into account • communicate explicitly the source of information about the ...
Energy Policy, 2010
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the social benefits of the German CO 2 refurbishment program... more The aim of this paper is to evaluate the social benefits of the German CO 2 refurbishment programme for the years 20052007. An extended inputoutput model is used to estimate the effect of the refurbishment works on public revenue via taxes and social security contributions. The ...
Energy Conversion and Management, 1996
Within the frame of the German IKARUS project a bottomup energy optimization model and a macroeco... more Within the frame of the German IKARUS project a bottomup energy optimization model and a macroeconomic simulation model based on the input-output approach have been developed. Under the restriction to reduce energy related CO2 emissions by 25 % until 2005, first model runs have been done for the German Previous States.
While Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies are being developed with the focus of capturi... more While Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies are being developed with the focus of capturing
and storing CO2 in huge quantities, new methods for the chemical exploitation of carbon dioxide
(CCU) are being developed in parallel. The intensified chemical or physical utilization of CO2 is
targeted at generating value from a limited part of the CO2 stream and developing better and more
efficient chemical processes with reduced CO2 footprint. Here, we compare the status of the three main
lines of CCS technologies with respect to efficiency, energy consumption, and technical feasibility as
well as the implications of CCS on the efficiency and structure of the energy supply chain.