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Progress on carbon dioxide capture, storage and utilisation

International Journal of Global Warming, 2020

The negative impacts of global warming on climate have been witnessed worldwide, and therefore global efforts to decrease the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly carbon dioxide, have increased. Carbon capture (CC) strategies can effectively reduce the quantity of CO2 being released into the atmosphere by various industries. In this study, several characteristics of CC technologies are analysed, the negative environmental impacts of CO2 emissions are highlighted, policies that have recently been adopted to decrease GHG emissions are discussed, and state-of-the-art post-combustion CC, pre-combustion CC, and oxyfuel combustion CC technologies are reviewed. Furthermore, this study investigates and compares the three most common carbon separation techniques, namely, absorption, adsorption, and membrane methods. Through the investigation of the CC technologies, we discuss the practicality of implementing such methods and discuss specific case studies that have implemented CC technologies. Furthermore, we summarise ways of utilising the end-product (the captured carbon) of these technologies. Much research has gone into investigating the

Recent advances in carbon capture storage and utilisation technologies: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2020

Human activities have led to a massive increase in CO 2 emissions as a primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to climate change with higher than 1 • C global warming than that of the pre-industrial level. We evaluate the three major technologies that are utilised for carbon capture: pre-combustion, post-combustion and oxyfuel combustion. We review the advances in carbon capture, storage and utilisation. We compare carbon uptake technologies with techniques of carbon dioxide separation. Monoethanolamine is the most common carbon sorbent; yet it requires a high regeneration energy of 3.5 GJ per tonne of CO 2. Alternatively, recent advances in sorbent technology reveal novel solvents such as a modulated amine blend with lower regeneration energy of 2.17 GJ per tonne of CO 2. Graphene-type materials show CO 2 adsorption capacity of 0.07 mol/g, which is 10 times higher than that of specific types of activated carbon, zeolites and metal-organic frameworks. CO 2 geosequestration provides an efficient and long-term strategy for storing the captured CO 2 in geological formations with a global storage capacity factor at a Gt-scale within operational timescales. Regarding the utilisation route, currently, the gross global utilisation of CO 2 is lower than 200 million tonnes per year, which is roughly negligible compared with the extent of global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which is higher than 32,000 million tonnes per year. Herein, we review different CO 2 utilisation methods such as direct routes, i.e. beverage carbonation, food packaging and oil recovery, chemical industries and fuels. Moreover, we investigated additional CO 2 utilisation for base-load power generation, seasonal energy storage, and district cooling and cryogenic direct air CO 2 capture using geothermal energy. Through bibliometric mapping, we identified the research gap in the literature within this field which requires future investigations, for instance, designing new and stable ionic liquids, pore size and selectivity of metal-organic frameworks and enhancing the adsorption capacity of novel solvents. Moreover, areas such as techno-economic evaluation of novel solvents, process design and dynamic simulation require further effort as well as research and development before pilot-and commercial-scale trials.

An overview of current status of carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies

Global warming and climate change concerns have triggered global efforts to reduce the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is considered a crucial strategy for meeting CO 2 emission reduction targets. In this paper, various aspects of CCS are reviewed and discussed including the state of the art technologies for CO 2 capture, separation, transport, storage, leakage, monitoring, and life cycle analysis. The selection of specific CO 2 capture technology heavily depends on the type of CO 2 generating plant and fuel used. Among those CO 2 separation processes, absorption is the most mature and commonly adopted due to its higher efficiency and lower cost. Pipeline is considered to be the most viable solution for large volume of CO 2 transport. Among those geological formations for CO 2 storage, enhanced oil recovery is mature and has been practiced for many years but its economical viability for anthropogenic sources needs to be demonstrated. There are growing interests in CO 2 storage in saline aquifers due to their enormous potential storage capacity and several projects are in the pipeline for demonstration of its viability. There are multiple hurdles to CCS deployment including the absence of a clear business case for CCS investment and the absence of robust economic incentives to support the additional high capital and operating costs of the whole CCS process.

Recent developments on carbon capture and storage: An overview

Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2011

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assumes the warming of the climate system, associating the increase of global average temperature to the observed increase of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is considered the most important GHG, due to the dependence of world economies on fossil fuels, since their combustion processes are the most important sources of this gas. CO 2 concentrations are increasing in the last decades mainly due to the increase of anthropogenic emissions. The processes involving CO 2 capture and storage is gaining attention on the scientific community as an alternative for decreasing CO 2 emission, reducing its concentration in ambient air. However, several technological, economical and environmental issues as well as safety problems remain to be solved, such as the following needs: increase of CO 2 capture efficiency, reduction of process costs, and verification of environmental sustainability of CO 2 storage. This paper aims to review the recent developments (from 2006 until now) on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) methodologies. Special attention was focused on the basic findings achieved in CCS operational projects.

Present status of capture of carbon dioxide and its storage technologies: A review

2019

Climate change has led to reduce the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is considered a crucial strategy for meeting CO2 emission reduction targets. In this paper, different aspects of CCS are reviewed and discussed including the state of the art technologies for CO2 capture, separation, transport, storage, leakage, monitoring, and life cycle analysis. The selection of specific CO2 capture technology heavily depends on the type of CO2 generating plant and fuel used. Among those geological formations for CO2 storage, enhanced oil recovery is mature and has been practiced for many years but its economical viability for anthropogenic sources needs to be demonstrated. There are growing interests in CO2 storage in saline aquifers due to their enormous potential storage capacity and several projects are in the pipeline for demonstration of its viability. There are multiple hurdles to CCS deployment including the absence of a clear b...

Recent developments and challenges ahead in carbon capture and sequestration technologies

SN Applied Sciences, 2019

Rapid industrialization and increasing trend of energy utilization resulted into exploitation of natural resources, i.e., fossil fuels, for power generation. This is resulting into addition of huge amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) as greenhouse gas into the environment. By year 2030, the primary production of energy from coal will reach to 3976 Mtoe and CO 2 discharge of 38749 MtCO 2 per year. In this review paper numerous aspects on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies have been compiled and discussed. The CO 2 can be captured during fuel processing itself or after fuel combustion and transported to the sequestration site for long-term storage. A wide variety of the carbon separation and capture techniques including absorption into liquid, gas phase separation, and adsorption on solid and hybrid processes such as adsorption-membrane systems are discussed. In addition to this, the regulations for CCS, economic analysis and policy issues are addressed.

Significant aspects of carbon capture and storage – A review

Petroleum

Excessive emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has resulted in a progressive climate change and global warming in the past decades. There have been many approaches developed to reduce the emission of Carbon Dioxide (CO 2) into the atmosphere, among which Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) techniques has been recognized as the most promising method. This paper provides a deeper insight about the CCS technology where CO 2 is captured and stored in deep geological formations for stabilization of the earth's temperature. Principles of capturing and storage for a long-term sequestration are also discussed together with the processes, mechanisms and interactions induced by supercritical CO 2 upon injection into subsurface geological sites.

RECENT TRENDS IN THE CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

Most of the industry and plants depend widely on the utilization of the fossil fuels for the process heating. It is essential to reduce the associated emissions from burning of the fuels before expelling ultimately into the atmosphere. One of the major pollutants is carbon dioxide. Hence, the capturing of CO 2 is vital to eliminate the formation of carbon monoxide (CO) and its subsequent pollutions. There are several sequestration processes available to trap and store the CO 2 at any composition. There are various methods available to capture CO 2 like combustion techniques, absorption/membrane technique, absorption on solids and absorption by the liquids. By planting fast-growing plants like Hemp for its characteristics like absorption of atmospheric CO 2 , non-abrasive process equipment, high energy absorbance and energy recovery. This article provides the techniques and emerging possibilities of the deployment of Carbon Credit and Sequestration (CCS) and the economic issues and operational matters of the CCS process.

Carbon Capture and Storage - Technological Advancements and Worldwide Constraints

Combating climate change by mitigation of release of the anthropogenic greenhouse gases has attracted worldwide attention towards research and policy formulations. One such approach is the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a large scale solution to climate change, consider to have significant potential on curbing CO2 emissions. Fossil fuels will continue to be our main energy source for decades to come, and CCS can contribute with as much as 55% of the emissions reductions needed to stabilize climate change at an average of +2oC. Industry is already exploring various CCS technologies. This paper will firstly discuss examples of various CO2 capture technologies currently in use and in development. It will also discuss various industrial sources and sequestration options. This paper also presents the technological advancement to CCS i.e. carbon recycling, which is the electro-reduction of carbon dioxide (ERC), which aims to take CO2 directly from industrial waste gases and convert it to formate salts and/or formic acid; both valu¬able chemicals used in a variety of industrial applications. CCS is, however, suffering from a lack of maturity in terms of frame conditions, technology, economy, infrastructure and common acceptance criteria. A key factor is development and implementation of a regulatory framework that allows a market and business to emerge, depending on financial incentives through various mitigation policies and mechanisms. The framework for CO2 storage should require an integrated risk management throughout the life cycle of a CCS project, i.e. from initial site selection, design and construction, operation including monitoring, reporting and verification, up to closure and post-closure requirements. The paper will address these uncertainties and risks more in depth. The viability of a carbon capture and sequestration industry will also be dependent upon the costs of capturing CO2 from industrial and natural sources. This raises the question: what are the potential costs of capturing industrial CO2? A source-to-sink analysis (Literature Survey) was done to estimate the total cost of capturing and transporting CO2 from a variety of industrial sources to potential sequestration sites. These include concentrated sources, such as ammonia and ethanol plants, as well as less-concentrated sources including power plants. The considered sequestration sites include value options such as enhanced oil and gas recovery projects, pressure maintenance in gas reservoirs, as well as sequestration in saline aquifers, depleted oil and gas reservoirs, and other geologic media. This paper hence will provide estimates of CO2 pipeline transportation costs at various distances between sources and sinks. Finally, the paper will discuss the total estimated cost, inclusive of capture, compression, and transportation, at which the CO2 can be sold to operators of enhanced oil recovery projects or other industries which could utilize the CO2. This analysis concluded that CO2 can be captured and transported approximately 100 miles at costs ranging between 1and1 and 1and3.50 per thousand cubic feet.

Introduction to Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 2019

CO2 storage in deep geological formations such as depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, saline aquifers, and methane coal beds has been recognized as an effective method to prevent climate change in the near future. This chapter gives a deeper insight into the major components of the carbon capture and storage technology as a major greenhouse gas mitigation approach implemented worldwide. The mechanisms, challenges, and issues understood so far linked to this technology are discussed. It appears that if a storage project can be safely implemented given the precautions mentioned in this chapter, a great step can be taken towards a better future for the next generation.