Life cycle assessment of a pulverized coal power plant with post-combustion capture, transport and storage of CO2

Koornneef, Joris; Keulen, Tim van; Faaij, André; Turkenburg, Wim

doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.06.008

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“…Toxicity is a significant obstacle and in combination with the difficulty in assessing the toxicity as well as considering its potential environmental damage when CCS is introduced large-scale, post-combustion CO 2 capture is problematic. In a life cycle analysis of a coal fired power plant with CCS, Koornneef et al (2008) show that the human toxicity increases with 181 % compared to a reference case without CCS, and concludes that the acceptability of such a trade-off needs to be debated publically.…”

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Obstacles for CCS deployment: an analysis of discrepancies of perceptions

Stigson

Hansson

Lind³

2012

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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The potential for CO 2 emission reductions through carbon capture and storage (CCS) is depending on investments that can bring the technology from the current R&D through to commercial applications. The intermediate step in this development is demonstration plants that can prove the technical, economic, social, and ecological feasibility of CCS technologies. Based on a CCS stakeholder questionnaire survey and a literature review, we critically analyse discrepancies regarding perceptions of deployment obstacles and experiences from early demonstration plants. The analysis identifies discrepancies between CCS policies versus important deployment considerations and CCS stakeholder policy demands. The discrepancy gap is emphasised by lessons from restructured, postponed, and cancelled CCS projects. To bridge this cognitive gap towards proving CCS through demonstration activities, the article highlights policy implications of establishing a broad understanding of deployment obstacles. Attention to these obstacles is important for policymakers and industry in channelling efforts to demonstrating CCS, hence validating the current focus on CCS as a key abatement potential. Under present conditions, the findings question the robustness of current CCS abatement potential estimates and deployment goals as established by policymakers and in scenarios.

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Obstacles for CCS deployment: an analysis of discrepancies of perceptions

Stigson

Hansson

Lind³

2012

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“…The findings of (WI et al 2007) for post-combustion processes were mainly confirmed, even if in the latest studies (in particular, by Koornneef et al 2008) the capture and, in part, transport and storage were modelled in more detail. Substantial new findings were generated for pre-combustion and oxyfuel, despite the fact that the capture processes have not yet been considered in detail.…”

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Integrated assessment of CCS in the German power plant sector with special emphasis on the competition with renewable energy technologies

Viebahn

Vallentin

Höller

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The study presents the results of an integrated assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the power plant sector in Germany, with special emphasis on the competition with renewable energy technologies. Assessment dimensions comprise technical, economic and environmental aspects, long-term scenario analysis, the role of stakeholders and public acceptance and regulatory issues. The results lead to the overall conclusion that there might not necessarily be a need to focus additionally on CCS in the power plant sector. Even in case of ambitious climate protection targets, current energy policy priorities (expansion of renewable energies and combined heat and power plants as well as enhanced energy productivity) result in a limited demand for CCS. In case that the large energy saving potential aimed for can only partly be implemented, the rising gap in CO 2 reduction could only be closed by setting up a CCS-maximum strategy. In this case, up to 22 per cent (41 GW) of the totally installed load in 2050 could be based on CCS. Assuming a more realistic scenario variant applying CCS to only 20 GW or lower would not be sufficient to reach the envisaged climate targets in the electricity sector. Furthermore, the growing public opposition against CO 2 storage projects appears as a key barrier, supplemented by major uncertainties concerning the estimation of storage potentials, the long-term cost development as well as the environmental burdens which abound when applying a life-cycle approach.However, recently, alternative applications are being increasingly considered -that is the capture of CO 2 at industrial point sources and biomass based energy production (electricity, heat and fuels) where assessment studies for exploring the potentials, limits and requirements for commercial use are missing so far. Globally, CCS at power plants might be an important climate protection technology: coal-consuming countries such as China and India are increasingly moving centre stage into the debate. Here, similar investigations on the development and the integration of both, CCS and renewable energies, into the individual energy system structures of such countries would be reasonable.

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“…Proposals have been made to reduce upstream CO 2 emissions by combining the production of synfuels with the sequestration of CO 2 in aquifers or abandoned gas and oil fields (Steynberg andNel 2004, Kintisch 2008). Such sequestration however also leads to a further lowering of the life cycle energy efficiency (Rostrup-Nielsen 2004) and may lead to an increase in emissions of toxics and substances that may contribute to acidification, eutrophication, and photochemical smog (Koornneef et al 2008). …”

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Fuels for the future

Reijnders

2009

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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There are unconventional fuels that may serve as near term major replacements for conventional mineral oil and natural gas. These include fuels from oil shale and bitumen, liquid fuels from coal, methane from methane hydrates, biofuels and the secondary fuel hydrogen. Here, these fuels will be reviewed as to their presumable stocks and life cycle wastes, emissions and inputs of natural resources. The unconventional fuels are usually characterized by a relatively poor source-toburner energy efficiency when compared with current conventional mineral oil and gas. Apart from some varieties of hydrogen and biofuel, their life cycles are characterized by relatively large water inputs, emissions, and wastes. The unconventional fuels shale oil, bituminous oil, coal liquids, and methane from methane hydrates are based on natural resources which are practically finite. This does not hold for biofuels, but the sustainable supply thereof is severely limited when large numbers of people also have to be fed. In view of the problems associated with unconventional fuels, there is a case to consider fuel-less replacements for many fuel applications.

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Life cycle assessment of a pulverized coal power plant with post-combustion capture, transport and storage of CO2

Abstract: Note: The composition has been estimated based on Strazisar et al. (2003). No information is available on the heating value of reclaimer bottoms. The LHV is conservatively set at zero.

Cited by 316 publications

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Obstacles for CCS deployment: an analysis of discrepancies of perceptions

Obstacles for CCS deployment: an analysis of discrepancies of perceptions

Integrated assessment of CCS in the German power plant sector with special emphasis on the competition with renewable energy technologies

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