The acceptability of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Europe: An assessment of the key determining factors

Coninck, H.C. de; Flach, Todd; Curnow, Paul; Richardson, Peter; Anderson, Jason; Shackley, Simon; Sigurthorsson, Gudmundur; Reiner, David

doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.07.009

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“…However, the overall costs of CCS in especially power generation are in almost all cases commercially unattractive compared to alternative options. Prohibitive costs might arise from, for instance, additional as yet unforeseen technical costs, financial structure and liability problems and/or public and political rejection of preferential (cost-effective) plant, pipeline and storage sites [9].…”

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What can we expect from Europe's carbon capture and storage demonstrations?

Scott

2013

Energy Policy

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) on electricity generation and energy intensive industry is expected to play a considerable role in achieving the European Union's decarbonisation goals. EU CCS demonstration project funding has been created to encourage development and accelerate commercial CCS deployment by providing funds to bridge the capital gap for early commercial-scale CCS installation. Eleven CCS project proposals currently remain at least nominally active, but reduced funding and other constraints suggest delivery of at best around a third of these. To explore how these demonstrations impact on the scale of subsequent CCS deployment in the EU three simple scenarios for post-demonstration CCS activity and deployment (none, limited and considerable) are considered and examined in the context of key factors that have influenced the demonstration programme. Without strong political support for post-demonstration deployment including measures such as strategic storage validation and CO 2 pipeline planning, and a clear process to make CCS commercially attractive to investors on a timeline consistent with climate ambitions, even a positive result from the demonstration programme is unlikely to enable CCS to deliver as expected.

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What can we expect from Europe's carbon capture and storage demonstrations?

Scott

2013

Energy Policy

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“…Surveys and interviews largely reveal a high degree of optimism around the prospect for deploying CCS on a large scale (de Coninck et al, 2009;Hansson and Bryngelsson, 2009;Van Alphen et al, 2007). One UK study found that a large majority of experts believed there will be a significant number of capture installations in place worldwide by mid-century (Gough, 2008), an optimism which was echoed in Hansson and Bryngelsson's separate study of European and North American experts.…”

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“…The primary advantage of widespread deployment has been identified as the possibility of meeting ambitious carbon reduction commitments (de Coninck et al, 2009;Gough, 2008;Van Alphen et al, 2007). Another advantage has been envisaged as a moral imperative to enable the continued reliance on cheap coal in developing economies (Hansson and Bryngelsson, 2009).…”

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Conditional inevitability: Expert perceptions of carbon capture and storage uncertainties in the UK context

Evar¹

2011

Energy Policy

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“…Especially, the offshore CCS demonstration or commercial projects using the CO 2 from the sources are in developing stage. Recently, a lot of perspectives and researches on CCS have been reported [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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CO2 Transport Strategy for the Offshore CCS in Korea

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Republic of Korea is the seventh largest CO 2 emission country in 2010 and the third fastest country in the growth of CO 2 emission according to the European Commission's Joint Research Center. To mitigate the effect of CO 2 on the climate change and global warming, Korea should reduce the anthropogenic CO 2 emissions from sources such as the power plants and iron works. So carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology is regarded as one of the most promising reduction options. This study established the CO 2 transport strategies from the sources to sinks (such as the saline aquifers and gas fields in the Southeast Sea of the Korean Peninsula) for the offshore CCS in Korea. Also the cost estimations were carried out with the CO 2 transport strategies. The CO 2 transport methods suggested in this study were pipelines for both onshore and offshore, and a complex concept consisting of a pipeline for the source to coast (including the liquefaction facility on a barge) and a CO 2 carrier for the coast to sink (including the temporary storage near offshore sink). With respect to the onshore pipelines, it was desirable to construct the CO 2 transport pipelines along existing roads and/or LNG (liquefied natural gas) pipelines, as already realized in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Australia CO 2 transport chains because of the cost and environmental aspects. The CO 2 carrier was considered for the offshore CCS demonstration stage starting in 2016 to meet the timeline set by the Korea National CCS Master Plan. To optimize the CO 2 transport systems, the advantages and drawbacks for the CO 2 transport using the pipeline and shipping were analysed and the costs for them were also estimated with the CO 2 transport strategies. There were several factors to be considered before constructing the CO 2 pipelines including the amount of CO 2 , the terrain, the diameter of pipe, the transport pressure, the CO 2 quality, the transport temperature, the CO 2 state (i.e. gas, liquid or supercritical phases), etc. Also for the CO 2 shipping it should be considered such as the amount of CO 2 , the shape and capacity of CO 2 cargo tanks, the ship capacity, the liquefaction pressure and temperature, the type of the temporary storage, etc. Although the present study is now on-going to optimize the CO 2 transport infrastructure for the offshore CCS in Korea, the preliminary results show the CO 2 transport cost for the pipeline system is lower than that for the shipping in the present status.

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The acceptability of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Europe: An assessment of the key determining factors

Cited by 64 publications

References 6 publications

What can we expect from Europe's carbon capture and storage demonstrations?

What can we expect from Europe's carbon capture and storage demonstrations?

Conditional inevitability: Expert perceptions of carbon capture and storage uncertainties in the UK context

CO2 Transport Strategy for the Offshore CCS in Korea

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