Inspiring a Generation of Educators with Carbon Capture and Storage

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 395-404
Author(s):  
Catherine T. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Demonstration Site ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
And Storage

A small-scale educational outreach pilot project was undertaken in Scottish Schools in 2010. The project aimed to share contemporary, cutting edge science and technological developments in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with communities in the vicinity of Longannet Power Station (a potential CCS demonstration site), in Fife, Scotland. An education team from The Scottish Earth Science Education Forum delivered teacher professional development workshops and school lessons in local primary and secondary schools. Results from research conducted with participants suggest that the impacts on both the teacher and pupil sample group were significant, positively impacting perceptions about science, careers, and the technology itself.

Gundih CCS Pilot Project: Current Status of the First Carbon Capture and Storage Project in South and Southeast Asia Regions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rachmat Sule ◽  
Wawan Gunawan A. Kadir ◽  
Toshifumi Matsuoka ◽  
Harris Prabowo ◽  
Gusti Suarnaya Sidemen
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Current Status ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
And Storage

scholarly journals Towards a Clean and Sustainable Distributed Energy: The Potential of Integrated PEMFC-CHP

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Cold Plasma ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Plasma Jet ◽  
Water Electrolysis ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
And Storage

The use of fossil fuels within the current infrastructure for domestic energy supply is one of the main causes of anthropogenic emissions. The mitigation options to meet the ambitious carbon reduction targets set by the UK government are discussed in this paper, including the use of carbon capture and storage technology, clean renewable energy integration and a proposed system of integrated fuel cell combined heat and power (FC-CHP) technology. Analysis shows that the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology within the current infrastructure can abate half the electricity associated CO2 emissions; however, this comes at a high cost penalty. The emissions associated with domestic heat cannot be prevented without changes in the energy infrastructure. Hydrogen powered fuel cells can provide clean energy at a range of scales and high efficiencies, especially when employed with a CHP system. However, production of CO2 free hydrogen is essential for fuel cell technology to contribute substantially to a low carbon economy globally. In this work three methods were investigated for small scale distributed hydrogen production, namely steam methane reforming, water electrolysis and cold plasma jet. The criteria used for comparisons include the associated CO2 emissions and the cost of energy production. Cold plasma jet decomposition of methane shows a high potential when combined with integrated FC-CHP technology for economically viable and CO2 free generation of energy, especially in comparison to water electrolysis. Including the value of the solid carbon product makes the plasma system most attractive economically.

scholarly journals Negative emissions technologies and carbon capture and storage to achieve the Paris Agreement commitments

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2119) ◽  
pp. 20160447 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Stuart Haszeldine ◽  
Stephanie Flude ◽  
Gareth Johnson ◽  
Vivian Scott
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Emission Rates ◽  
Negative Emissions ◽  
Warming World ◽  
And Storage

How will the global atmosphere and climate be protected? Achieving net-zero CO 2 emissions will require carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce current GHG emission rates, and negative emissions technology (NET) to recapture previously emitted greenhouse gases. Delivering NET requires radical cost and regulatory innovation to impact on climate mitigation. Present NET exemplars are few, are at small-scale and not deployable within a decade, with the exception of rock weathering, or direct injection of CO 2 into selected ocean water masses. To keep warming less than 2°C, bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) has been modelled but does not yet exist at industrial scale. CCS already exists in many forms and at low cost. However, CCS has no political drivers to enforce its deployment. We make a new analysis of all global CCS projects and model the build rate out to 2050, deducing this is 100 times too slow. Our projection to 2050 captures just 700 Mt CO 2  yr −1 , not the minimum 6000 Mt CO 2  yr −1 required to meet the 2°C target. Hence new policies are needed to incentivize commercial CCS. A first urgent action for all countries is to commercially assess their CO 2 storage. A second simple action is to assign a Certificate of CO 2 Storage onto producers of fossil carbon, mandating a progressively increasing proportion of CO 2 to be stored. No CCS means no 2°C. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels'.

scholarly journals Techno-Economic and Partial Environmental Analysis of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCU/S): Case Study from Proposed Waste-Fed District-Heating Incinerator in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Mikhelkis ◽  
Venkatesh Govindarajan
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Carbon Taxes ◽  
And Storage

Sweden aspires to become totally carbon dioxide-neutral by 2045. Indisputably, what is needed is not just a reduction in the emissions of CO2 (greenhouse gases in general) from the technosphere, but also a manipulated diversion of CO2 from the atmosphere to ‘traps’ in the lithosphere, technosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. The case study in this paper focused on Stockholm Exergi’s proposed waste-to-energy incineration plant in Lövsta, which is keen on incorporating carbon capture and storage (CCS), but is also interested in understanding the potential of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCU/S) in helping it to achieve ‘carbon-dioxide-negativity’. Waste-to-energy incineration plants (in cases where the petro-plastics in the waste mix can be substantially reduced) are a key component of a circular bio-economy, though the circularity here pertains to recovering energy from materials which may or may not be recyclable. CCS (storage in the North Sea) was compared with CCU/S (CO2 sintered into high-quality building blocks made of recycled slag from the steel sector) from techno-economic and environmental perspectives. The comparative analysis shows, inter alia, that a hybridized approach—a combination of CCS and CCU/S—is worth investing in. CCU/S, at the time of writing, is simply a pilot project in Belgium, a possible creatively-destructive technology which may or may not usurp prominence from CCS. The authors believe that political will and support with incentives, subsidies, and tax rebates are indispensable to motivate investments in such ground-breaking technologies and moving away from the easier route of paying carbon taxes or purchasing emission rights.

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