carbon capture Articles
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Heat recovery solves carbon capture issues
Flue gas heat recovery at the fired heater overcomes major drawbacks to the successful operation of an amine based carbon capture plant The refining sector is facing a major transformation in the next three decades. Driven by more stringent regulation towards CO2 abatement and increasing pressure from consumers and investors, refiners are exploring options to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. ...
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Eggs could be the next carbon capture and storage technology
Indian scientists claim eggshell membranes could store up to seven times their own weight in carbon ...
By Vital Energi
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Spending review leaves DECC with the second biggest increase
UK energy and climate change secretary promises fully functioning green investment bank, carbon capture and storage (CCS) project and revival in offshore ...
By Vital Energi
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The future of ash fusion analysis
Professor Ed Lester and Thomas Huddle, University of Nottingham, Patrick Daley, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy, and Paul Haigh, Carbolite Gero Ltd, UK, detail advances in ash fusion analysis. Click here to read the full article published in the February edition of 'World Coal' and on the World Coal ...
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Long-term viability of carbon capture and storage in a European context
There is much discussion concerning the question whether Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a sustainable climate change mitigation option. An even more debated topic is currently whether it is affordable and economically viable on the long term. Different legal frameworks at different levels around the globe seek to provide incentives for CCS technology. This article focuses on two core aspects ...
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The commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage technology
One of the most significant impediments to a carbon dioxide capture and storage industry is not technical but legal-managing liabilities associated with the long-term geologic storage of carbon dioxide in reservoirs, particularly deep saline. There is no dedicated regulatory regime in place at either the federal or state level for capture and ...
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Cyclic CO
2capture performance of CaO–based sorbents obtained from various precursorsThe effects of pore morphology and crystal structure of CaO–based sorbents derived from various precursors were investigated to elucidate the property dependence of CaO–based sorbent performance for cyclic CO2 capture. The results indicate that CO2 capture capacity of the first carbonate looping cycle is dependent on the specific surface area of CaO–based sorbents. The carbonation conversions of ...
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The kinetics of carbon dioxide capture by solutions of piperazine and N-methyl piperazine
In this paper, kinetics and mechanism of the reaction between CO2 and piperazine (PZ) or n-methyl piperazine (NMP) in aqueous and alcoholic solutions were investigated using direct stopped-flow technique under a range of temperatures (278, 288 and 298 K). The results show that the reactions follow a single termolecular reaction mechanism and the reaction rate between CO2 and aqueous PZ ...
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The trouble with angels: carbon capture and storage hurdles and solutions
This article examines the challenges to commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage using geologic sequestration. The authors argue that CCS will never become a reality without early federal investment in research and development, a uniform federal regulatory framework, and a framework to address the currently unknown and unquantifiable liabilities. They suggest a model similar to the ...
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Transboundary transportation of CO2 associated with carbon capture and storage projects
International legal issues raised by Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) have received close attention in recent years, including important amendments being made to two international marine environment protection treaties – the global London Protocol 1 and the regional OSPAR Convention2 – to resolve their uncertain legal treatment of CO2 storage into the sub-seabed. To date, however, most published ...
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Carbon Capture and Products Recovery (CCPR) technology
Introduction Imagine using one of the two global environmental issues to solve another at the same time. Curing the Greenhouse Gas problem; by literally pulling carbon out of the air, and reducing river and freshwater pollution; by using industry wastewater as a resource. The technology is here. A well established chemical process in a self sustaining closed loop process is proving viable ...
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Carbon Capture & Storage: CO2 Capture
F7.1 | DOE and NETL’s Carbon Capture R&D Program Timothy Fout | Project Manager, US DOE/ NETL With pending legislation or EPA action on greenhouse gas emissions, there is a concerted effort underway to find ways to meet possible future limits in a cost effective manner. The DOE, through its Existing Plants Program, is targeting existing pulverized coal (PC) power plants since ...
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Carbon capture is a mirage for poor nations
The world is witnessing a coal renaissance. While public attention remains focused on the progress of the clean energy sector, a ‘black revolution’ of coal power stations is taking shape in the developing world, in particular in Asia, according to Ottmar Edenhofer, the chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. At the Our Common Future under ...
By SciDev.Net
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Carbon capture could be costly and risky
There’s bad news for those who think that carbon dioxide can be removed from the atmosphere and stored deep in the Earth’s rocks. Even if carbon capture is possible, sequestration in the rocks is fraught because the gas can find multiple ways to escape, according to a report by a team from Penn State University, US, in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. Back in the ...
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How Will Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Contribute to the Global Temperature Goal of 1.5°C?
Let’s begin: what Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage is and how it works Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) consist of a series of technologies to capture carbon (usually as CO2) emitted by various processes, to then either be used or stored in an underground reservoir. Carbon capture can be achieved as part of an industrial process, such as hydrogen, ammonia or ethanol ...
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Liability and financial responsibility frameworks for carbon capture and sequestration
Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) is an important option for reducing CO2 emissions from human activities. There is growing interest in CCS as renewable energy and energy efficiency alone are unlikely to deliver the emission reductions necessary to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases by mid-century.1 CCS involves capturing CO2 generated from fossil fuel ...
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Capture of carbon dioxide by solid amine sorbents
The reaction of tetraethylorthrosilcate (TEOS) with y-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS) has produced stable solid amine sorbents for the capture of carbon dioxide. The resulting amine-enriched silicon sorbent (SBA-15) has been proven to be competitive with existing environmental CO2 controlled life sorbents based on the immobilised amine technology. XPS analysis has indicated that the amine ...
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and economic investment opportunities in the UK
This article reviews the role played by carbon and capture (CCS) technologies in order to facilitate the transition to low-carbon emitting technologies in the medium-term. More precisely, we address the following central questions: how will the development of CCS technologies impact energy policies in order to yield to sustainable energy solutions? At what costs will pollution reductions be ...
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Storing carbon: options for liability risk management, financial responsibility
The authors of this article say the technical complexity, economic impacts, social demand, and political challenges underpinning the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired electric power generation are daunting, but not unprecedented. In response to these challenges, the authors recommend the creation of a new “federal government ...
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Carbon Capture & Storage: Becoming a regulatory reality in Europe
In the article ―Carbon Capture and Storage: Becoming a Regulatory Reality in Europe, Meghan White examines the development of a legal framework for Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) as an important measure to achieve GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions restric-tions in Europe. The article begins with an overview of the technical aspects of CCS as well as the main policy initiatives that have promoted ...
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