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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology that can
capture up to 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation and
industrial processes, preventing the carbon dioxide from entering the
atmosphere.
Furthermore, the use of CCS with renewable biomass is one of the few carbon
abatement technologies that can be used in a 'carbon-negative' mode – actually
taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
The CCS chain consists of three parts;
capturing the carbon dioxide,
transporting the carbon dioxide, and securely
storing the carbon dioxide emissions, underground in
depleted oil and gas fields or
deep saline aquifer formations.
First,
capture technologies allow the separation of carbon dioxide from gases
produced in electricity generation and industrial processes by one of three
methods:
pre-combustion capture,
post-combustion capture and
oxyfuel combustion.
Carbon dioxide is then transported by pipeline or by ship for safe storage.
Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide are already transported annually for
commercial purposes by
road tanker,
ship and
pipelines. The U.S. has four decades of experience of transporting carbon
dioxide by pipeline for
enhanced oil recovery projects.
The carbon dioxide is then
stored in carefully selected geological rock formation that are typically
located several kilometres below the earth's surface.
At every point in the CCS chain, from production to storage, industry has at its
disposal a number of process technologies that are well understood and have
excellent health and safety records. The commercial deployment of CCS will
involve the widespread adoption of these CCS techniques, combined with robust
monitoring techniques and Government regulation.
http://www.ccsassociation.org/what-is-ccs/
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February 9:
Trump signed a landmark bill that could create the next big
technologies to fight climate change
Donald Trump is no champion of the environment. But this morning, in signing a
bill to continue funding the US government, he also ended up supporting two
pieces of new legislation that could create the next big technologies to fight
climate change.
Trump found himself in this situation because of the peculiar way in which the
US government works. Every so often, both houses of the US congress have to pass
a bill to continue funding the government. This bill needs a super majority,
which means that even though Republicans have a majority in both houses, they
have to get some Democrats on their side.
https://qz.com/1203803/donald-trump-signed-a-landmark-bill-to-support-carbon-capture-and-nuclear-power/
December 5:
The Trump administration will propose scrapping an Obama-era
mandate that new coal-fired power plants use carbon-capture technology, removing
a major barrier to constructing the facilities, according to a person familiar
with the plans.
Although the technology has been used at oil refineries and other
facilities—including a coal-fired unit at an NRG Energy Inc. plant in Texas—it
has not been widely deployed in the electricity sector.
The Obama administration regulation, finalized in 2015, imposed carbon dioxide
limits on new and modified coal-fired power plants that could not be met without
installing some kind of carbon-capture technology.
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-trump-carbon-capture-mandate-coal-source.html
December 11:
The
carbon capture industry is smarting from the Trump administration's
determination last week that their product is not ready for prime time and
looking to prove that it is feasible and worthwhile to trap carbon emissions
from power plants and industries.
“The Trump administration is implying that carbon capture is not achievable,”
Matt Lucas, an associate director at Carbon180, a nonprofit group pushing the
technology, told the Washington Examiner. “That's not consistent with 25
years of experience with major carbon capture projects, including those in the
power sector.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/carbon-capture-industry-says-trump-epa-is-wrong-to-underestimate-them
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February 21:
Approximately 49 million tons of CO2 could be cut via carbon capture,
utilization and storage (CCUS) in the power sector — equivalent to removing 7
million cars from the roads — by 2030, according to a
Clean Air Task
Force (CATF) report published this week.
The oil and gas industry has experimented with CO2 removal technology since the
1930s to purify process streams from CO2. Now similar technology could be used
to ease the transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy sources.
CCUS is considered an important medium- and long-term means of reducing carbon
emissions in fossil fuel–intensive industries. The
International
Energy Agency (IEA) places 32% of the responsibility of reaching carbon
neutrality by 2060 — a pledge many governments, including
California's and
the EU's, already support — on CCUS.
https://www.axios.com/carbon-capture-could-be-key-to-decarbonizing-us-fossil-fuels-63199532-e222-42b1-a3ba-00d9c28e3bb3.html
May 9:
Empty North Sea gas fields to be used to bury 10m tonnes of
C02
Ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent to pipe greenhouse gas into vast under-sea
reservoir
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/empty-north-sea-gas-fields-bury-10m-tonnes-c02-eu-ports
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