Bio-CCS: Feasibility comparison of large scale carbon-negative solutions

Arasto, Antti; Onarheim, Kristin; Tsupari, Eemeli; Kärki, Janne

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.711

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“…Biomass helps to draw carbon from the atmosphere by binding carbon as it grows. In Europe, forest biomass is the largest biomass raw material stream on the continent [60].…”

Section: What Is Bioccs and Its Potential?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

2015

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BioCCS is a technology gaining support as a possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, the most optimistic energy efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase of +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at the commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity to garner knowledge, achieve consensus and build support around the technology's properties. Yet many challenges face the bioCCS industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be from sustainable sources or potentially result in carbon stock losses. The operating environment also has no or limited policies, regulations and legal frameworks, and risk and safety concerns abound. Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a 'community of support', awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options. To this end, the following scoping review was conducted in order to ascertain gaps in existing public perception and acceptance research focusing on bioCCS.

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“…Biomass helps to draw carbon from the atmosphere by binding carbon as it grows. In Europe, forest biomass is the largest biomass raw material stream on the continent [60].…”

Section: What Is Bioccs and Its Potential?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

2015

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“…The CO 2 footprint of a procedure could also be eliminated if carbon was removed from the process in other forms than CO 2 [31,36]. This results in a totally different life-cycle perspective for carbon cycles with aspects also relating to the declining biomass use [26,36]. Direct anthropogenic CO 2 emissions are not derived by biomass combustion; thus, its capture contributes to CO 2 emissions reduction during the entire lifetime.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is true that any biomass refining or utilizing process, involving CO 2 emissions, could deploy CCS technologies. The CO 2 footprint of a procedure could also be eliminated if carbon was removed from the process in other forms than CO 2 [31,36]. This results in a totally different life-cycle perspective for carbon cycles with aspects also relating to the declining biomass use [26,36].…”

Section: Rp2n5mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even if they are in their infancy, demonstration projects can provide a chance to acquire knowledge, reach a consensus and establish support around BECCS [30,31,36]. BECCS encounters big challenges in financing and as a result, no such plants have been currently constructed and tested at scale [19,38].…”

Section: Rp1: Evidence Of Pilot and Demonstration Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the decade 2020 to 2030, CCS can be deployed on one out of eight gas-or biomass-fired power plants, primarily in OECD member countries and China [21]. BECCS could be easily applied into pulp and paper industry sectors, but growth opportunities are also valid in cement, iron, and steel industry; and oil/gas refineries [34][35][36].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Striving towards the Deployment of Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): A Review of Research Priorities and Assessment Needs

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Abstract:Assessing the performance or the implications of climate change mitigation options (CCMOs) is instrumental in achieving research and innovation efficiency in the field of climate change and becomes more imperative considering the Paris Agreement ('the Agreement'). Many climate scientists already believe that meeting the Agreement's goals and stabilizing "well-below 2 • C above pre-industrial levels" signals the deployment of currently undetermined and contentious mitigation technologies, such as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). BECCS is considered one of the most promising negative emissions technologies (NETs) with many scenarios already exhibiting its mitigation potential. However, stakeholders and policymakers remain skeptical about widespread reliance on BECCS questioning its unproven credibility. In this article, we aim at identifying research priorities and assessment needs to intensify the further deployment of BECCS, considering relevant technology associations' and platforms' perspectives and insights raised by scientific literature. The main outcome of our study is a list of 10 research priorities along with more specific assessment needs for each priority area. We also focus attention on several implications for potential end-users involved in the field of policy and practice. Overall, our work seeks to bridge the gap between market/industry and academia and to assist policymakers to make better-informed decisions.

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