CO2 Highways for Europe: Modeling a Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage Infrastructure for Europe

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The Role of CO2-EOR for the Development of a CCTS Infrastructure in the North Sea Region: A Techno-Economic Model and Application

“…Recently, much effort has been put in adequately representing potential economies of scale in the transport infrastructure. Mendelevitch et al (2010) present a scalable mixed integer, multiperiod, cost minimizing CCTS network model for Europe, called CCTS-Mod. The model incorporates endogenous decisions about carbon capture, pipeline and storage investments, and capture, flow and injection quantities based on given costs, CO 2 prices, storage capacities and point source emissions.…”

Joining the CCS club! The economics of CO 2 pipeline projects

“…In recent years, there has been an upsurge in interest in the application of optimization techniques to determine the cost-minimizing design of an integrated CCS infrastructure network (Bakken and von Streng Velken, 2008;Middleton and Bielicki, 2009;Kemp and Kasim, 2010;Klokk et al, 2010;Mendelevitch et al, 2010;Kuby et al, 2011;Spiecker et al, 2014). 7 While very much needed for indicative regional planning purposes (e.g.…”

International Transport of Captured $$\hbox {CO}_2$$ CO 2 : Who Can Gain and How Much?

“…Recent research has produced a number of models that are capable of determining the optimal (i.e. cost-minimising) CO 2 transport network that can transport CO 2 from sources to sinks, such as Middleton andBielicki (2009), Broek et al (2010a,b), Mendelevitch et al (2010) and Morbee et al ( , 2012. These studies, however, do not describe how the necessary coordination to achieve such optimal infrastructure would be realised.…”

“…However, the trans-European networks described by e.g. Mendelevitch et al (2010) and Morbee et al ( , 2012 require coordination and joint pipeline infrastructure investment by a large number of countries. The question we study in this paper is how such international cooperation could be structured in order to achieve the benefits of joint infrastructure optimisation.…”