Economic CO2 network optimization model COCATE European Project (2010-2013)

Benchmarking of CO2 transport technologies: Part I—Onshore pipeline and shipping between two onshore areas

“…Technical, costs, and climate impact assessments of transport infrastructure are assessed and compared for a base case in which onshore pipeline and CO2 shipping between two onshore harbours are compared for a range of distances and capacities. Unlike previous studies, our efforts focus not only on a given capacity (Metz et al, 2005) or a specific case (Coussy et al, 2012; European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP), 2011; Roussanaly et al, 2013b;Roussanaly et al, 2013c), but considers two variables: transport distance and transport capacity. As expected, for a fixed annual capacity, onshore pipeline transport should be used for "shorter" distances while shipping between two onshore harbours is a better choice for higher distances.…”

“…The only study that was found on the comparison between onshore pipeline and shipping between two onshore harbours is part of the COCATE EU project (Roussanaly et al, 2013b). Roussanaly et al (Coussy et al, 2012;Roussanaly et al, 2013b) compared onshore pipeline transport and shipping between two onshore harbours where 13.1 MtCO2/y are transported from Le Havre to 21 Corresponding to the annual emissions of a coal-fired power plant producing 1GWe. …”

Benchmarking of CO 2 transport technologies: Part II – Offshore pipeline and shipping to an offshore site

“…The technical, cost, and climate impact characteristics of transport infrastructures are assessed and used to compare offshore pipeline and CO2 shipping to an offshore site in a base case involving a range of distances and capacities. Unlike previous studies, this paper does not focus on a specific case (Coussy et al, 2013;European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP), 2011b;Roussanaly et al, 2013b;Roussanaly et al, 2013c) nor a given capacity (Metz et al, 2005), but considers two initial variables: transport distance and capacity. As in the onshore benchmark study performed in the first part of our work, the base case demonstrates that short distances and large capacities favour pipeline transport.…”

“…In order to draw general conclusions on conditions in which pipeline and shipping are respectively the cost-optimal technology, a case study benchmarking onshore pipeline and shipping between harbours was performed, based on the cost of the transport options calculated by the transport modules, and was presented in the first part of this paper (Roussanaly et al, 2013d). Unlike previous studies, this work did not focus only on a fixed capacity (Metz et al, 2005) nor a specific case (Coussy et al, 2013; European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP), 2011b; Roussanaly et al, 2013b;Roussanaly et al, 2013c), but considered two initial variables: transport distance and transport capacity. Part II of this paper focuses on the selection of the cost-optimal technology, either offshore pipeline or shipping, to transport CO2 to an offshore site, based on the cost of the transport options calculated by the transport modules.…”

“…The ZEP report (European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP), 2011b) on CO2 transport compared the cost of CO2 transporting 20 MtCO2/y by offshore pipeline and CO2 shipping for distances of 180, 500, 750 and 1500 km, and concluded that offshore pipeline will be used in the three first cases while shipping will be the last one. Coussy et al (Coussy et al, 2013) and Roussanaly et al (Roussanaly et al, 2013b) illustrates that in the case of the EU project COCATE, onshore pipeline was the cost-optimal technology to transport 13.1 MtCO2/ from Le Havre (France) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) 2 . Mallon et al (Mallon et al, 2013) evaluated that offshore pipelines would be used for distances below 500 km for an installed transport capacity of 10 MtCO2/y used at 50% while shipping will be used for larger distances.…”