carbon capture and storage Articles
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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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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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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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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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Industrial Carbon Capture
What is Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage? Industrial carbon emissions come from industrial processes and stationary emission sources, such as power stations, cement production and refineries. Industrial carbon capture and storage involves capturing CO2 at emission sources, transporting, and then storing or burying it in a deep, underground location. How is Industrial Carbon Dioxide Captured? ...
By WKC Group
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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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Carbon capture and storage under the clean development mechanism – An overview of regulatory challenges
The safe and secure deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in developing countries could be a way to reconcile their economic development with the objective of climate change mitigation. The Clean Development Mechanism could provide the required additional financial incentive to enable the implementation of CCS projects. However, the inclusion of this technology in the CDM faces important ...
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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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National implementation of carbon capture and storage: The case of Germany
As Germany is – and will remain for the immediate future – dependent on coal for generating power and ensuring energy supply, the German Government and various representatives from the private sector are currently assessing and promoting so called “Clean Coal” technologies, such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Scientific research and industrial pilot projects for capturing and storing carbon ...
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Capturing King Coal: Deploying carbon capture and storage in the US at scale
Climate change is no longer simply an environmental issue. It is rapidly becoming one of the defining forces of economic development in the 21st century. It will shape investment, technology deployment, and human development around the world, and no sector will be more profoundly affected than energy. Given the constraints that climate impacts bring, thriving in the evolving global energy market ...
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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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Regulating carbon capture and storage in the European union: An economic and legal analysis
Capture of CO2 produced during electricity and heat generation and its subsequent geological storage is receiving increased attention in the discussion about emission reductions. This commentary discusses the importance of temporal and spatial system boundaries for competition among different CO2 abatement options in the context of the European Emission Trading Scheme. Referring to the recent ...
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Comparing policy, regulations and institutions for geological disposal of radioactive waste and carbon dioxide
This paper compares the policy, regulatory and institutional (PRI) settings of Radioactive Waste (RW) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) disposal for selected countries. This comparison is premised on the following arguments: (a) the policy/political acceptance of nuclear power and coal power with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to redress the climate change challenge will be essentially ...
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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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Report: Investors conditionally ready to back CCS development
The financial world may be ready to invest the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, provided certain pre-conditions are assured, according a recent report by the non-profit Climate Group and Ecofin Research Foundation (New York, NY). The report surveyed 30 private-sector capital providers on their views of the risks and returns of CCS development and found three basic ...
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Carbon capture and storage: settling the German coal vs. climate change dispute?
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is an innovation that promises to enable the low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions coal power station. However, the technology is still under development and issues such as economic viability, environmental safety, public acceptance and system integration remain unresolved at present. We analyse the viewpoints and strategies of major political and economic actors ...
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Optimal CO2 metering solution critical to enhanced oil recovery
As oil wells age, the internal pressure gradually drops while fluid levels tend to move away from the production zone. To combat the resulting production declines at those wells, oil and gas companies turn to enhanced oil recovery to optimize output. Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection and water alternating gas injection, also known as WAG, are unconventional enhanced oil recovery processes that ...
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Beyond CO2lonialism: the potential for fair trade certification to embrace voluntary carbon offsets
Carbon offset projects are a short-term solution to a long-term problem. Some offset projects cause immediate harm to the people and environment of developing countries while others provide questionable returns in terms of actual carbon capture and storage. Finally, carbon offset projects create barriers to industrialisation for developing countries. All of these challenges must be addressed if ...
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Public perception of ultimate disposal facilities for radioactive waste and carbon dioxide: results from a cross–national comparison
The public perception of ultimate disposal facilities for Radioactive Waste (RW) and carbon dioxide (CO2) is crucial for the selection, construction and operation of such sites. This paper presents a cross–national comparison of the public perceptions of ultimate disposal facilities for RW and CO2 in the Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania. The results of the comparison revealed similarities ...
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