Collaboration opportunities with CO2CRC - presentation by Dianne Wiley in the International CCS session at the UKCCSRC Cardiff Biannual Meeting, 10-11 September 2014

1. Collaboration opportunities with CO2CRC
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Professor Dianne Wiley
Capture Program Manager
Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
(CO2CRC)
UNSW Australia
UK CCSRC Biannual Meeting
26-29 September 2014
Cardiff UK

2. An introduction to CO2CRC
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One of the world’s leading collaborative research organisations in carbon capture and storage (CCS) based in Australia
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Integrates R&D across the CCS value chain
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Brings together an exceptional stakeholder base
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Industry - coal, gas, power
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Government - Commonwealth, State, Local
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Australian & international research institutions - CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, Universities
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Has a broad international perspective and experience with more than 150 leading researchers

3. The CO2CRC Otway Project
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Globally unique geological setting
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Reducing risk
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Reducing cost
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Improving technology
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Reducing footprints on- & offshore
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Demonstrating safe storage in:
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depleted gas field (Naylor) and
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saline aquifer (Paaratte)

4. Highlights
•Atmospheric (continuous monitoring)
•Soil Gas
•Seismic
•Reservoir fluids
Exceptional Datasets
•Validation of models in actual field tests
•Fully permitted and operational site
•Availability of CO2
•Globally unique advantage
Field Validation
•Single Well Test for reservoir characterisation
•Several generations of U-Tube systems deployed
•Innovative well instrumentation
Developing Novel & Innovative Concepts & Technology
•First CO2 storage demonstration project in Australia
•Reducing risk and uncertainty
•Advising regulators and project proponents in Australia and world wide
•A go-to project
First of its kind
experiments

5. Capture Research Program
Applications
•Sour and acid gas separation
•Natural gas combustion
•Coal combustion
Research areas
•C1 Revolutionary solvents
•C2 Transformational adsorbents and membranes
•C3 Field facilities
Focus
•Substantial cost reduction with low environmental impact
•Adaptation, knowledge and skills for Australia
•Expert engagement in a global effort

6. Economics Research Program
Applications
•Electricity, fuel and industrial markets
•Transport options, networks and hubs
•Project, application and technology ranking
Research areas
•Capture: technologies, sources, flexible operation
•Storage: exploration, injection and MMV strategies
•Systems: pipe, ship, road and rail transport
Focus
•Tools and methods for assessment across the CCS chain
•Assessment of energy markets and CCS networks
•Assessment of emerging technologies and approaches

7. Adsorbent plant
0.5-1 tpd CO2
Capture facilities at Hazelwood
Solvent plant
1 tpd CO2
Membrane plant
13 kpd CO2

8. Future research: Encapsulated solvents
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Potentially attractive for acid gas separation and post-combustion capture
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High specific surface area, low volatility, dry system
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Other opportunities for collaboration
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Integration of capture with renewable energy sources
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Alternative materials of construction
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Alternative column designs

9. Future research: Membranes
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Tailored hollow fibre membranes for separation of CO2 from methane or flue gas
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Integrally skinned and composite coated with additives
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Field testing at the CO2CRC Otway site or power plant
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Ultrathin composite membranes
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CAP membrane, PEG additives, soft nanoparticle additives, di- and tri-block copolymer membranes

10. Future research: Adsorbents
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Leverage ‘trap-door’ chabazite materials for acid and sour gas
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High recoveries, high selectivity
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Improved cycles for high purity, high recovery of CO2
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Scale-up and field testing of new PEI materials for flue gas

11. Economics: Evaluating improvements
Optimising solvents to reduce capture costs
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Capture Cost (US$/t)
Regeneration Energy (MJ/kg CO2 captured)
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Ideal aqueous
Ideal L
Ideal S
Solvent L Best configuration
Solvent S Best configuration
Options for variable capture
Energy market costs and emission reduction
BECCS option analysis

12. Economics: Evaluating options and guiding decisions
Source-Sink matching
Latrobe V. – Gippsland
South Qld – Surat
North Qld – Eromanga
Hunter V. – Surat
Lithgow – Gippsland
North Qld – Eromanga
On-costs
Injection
Transport
Power
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Specific Cost of CO2 Avoided (A$/t)
Optimising network design (also transport fuels)
Avoid National Parks & Population Areas
Lowest cost network (min. spanning tree)
Exclude Bulwar Island
Oversizing pipelines for future capacity
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Reducing storage cost through pressure management (PM)

13. CO2CRC Participants
Supporting Partners: The Global CCS Institute | The University of Queensland | Process Group | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CANSYD Australia | Government of South Australia | Charles Darwin University | Simon Fraser University