Wayne Calder, General Manager, Australian Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, presented on CCS and carbon price policy in Australia at the Global CCS Institute's Japanese Members' Meeting held in Tokyo on 8 June 2012
This document discusses small to mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions using modular designs. It provides throughput capacities for various standard LNG plant sizes ranging from 0.25 to 2.0 million metric tons per annum. The modular designs allow for simplified, reduced risk installation. Standard modules include gas processing equipment, liquefaction systems, control systems, and utilities.
Selection of amine solvents for CO2 capture from natural gas power plant - presentation by Jiafei Zhang in the Natural Gas CCS session at the UKCCSRC Cardiff Biannual Meeting, 10-11 September 2014
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CCUS BUSINESS CASEiQHub
The document summarizes technologies for building a carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) value chain. It describes current mature carbon capture technologies like amine-based capture and discusses future developments. It outlines the full CCUS process from capture to transportation, purification, liquefaction, and storage. Industrial hubs around the North Sea are positioned to be early parts of the CCUS value chain due to existing infrastructure and proximity to storage in the North Sea. Technologies are at a commercial level to design an integrated CCUS network, with the largest opportunities in northwest Europe.
Evaluation of CO2 Storage Capacity and EOR in the Bakken Shale Oil ReservoirsHamid Lashgari
This paper presents a new perspective in modeling and analyzing efficiency of CO2 and miscible gas injection for potential enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 storage in shale oil plays. Our major focuses are conceptual and fundamental understanding of the dominant trapping and oil recovery mechanisms behind miscible gas injection. The efficiency of the CO2 Huff-n-Puff process in shale oil production has been widely investigated in recent years because of the ultra-low permeability (1 to 100 µD) of shale oil reservoirs and poor geological connectivity between hydraulic fractured wells. Here we used hydrocarbon fluid properties of a Middle Bakken tight oil reservoir, and considered a wide range of permeability (from 1 to 100µD) and isotherm adsorption properties for CO2 and CH4. A large scale numerical model was set up to simulate and capture the important mechanisms behind various miscible gas injection scenarios.
Simulation results reveal that CO2 adsorption and CH4 desorption along with molecular diffusion of hydrocarbon components are crucial in the presence of organic matter content and pores, however, recycle enriched gas injection demonstrated a high oil recovery compared to miscible CO2 injection. Although CO2 adsorption is large in organic rich shale oil based on literature measurements, CO2 efficiency in enhancing oil recovery is not as much as recycle enriched gas with ethane (C2). However, CO2 trapping may be substantial due to adsorption (5.0% to 10%) and other conventional trapping mechanisms, and the amount of CO2 trapped could be a significant fraction of the total injected amount (25% to 50% considering other trapping mechanisms such as CO¬2 dissolution, residual, and free gas). Simulation results strongly support that CO2 molecular diffusion can assist in the deep penetration of CO2 to touch larger surface area of matrix to become adsorbed, as well as dissolved in other coexisting phases and residual trapping.
This document discusses ammonia (NH3) formation over steam reforming catalysts. It provides rules of thumb for NH3 formation in primary and secondary reformers, noting it is kinetically limited and does not reach equilibrium. NH3 formation is influenced by nitrogen concentration, hydrogen concentration, temperature, catalyst activity, residence time, and pressure. The document also presents theoretical rate equations and discusses how process conditions like steam:carbon ratio affect NH3 production. Graphs demonstrate the effect of temperature and pressure on NH3 production.
This document discusses primary reforming processes for producing hydrogen and ammonia. It describes a simplified steam reforming process that involves steam reforming, water-gas shift reaction, hydrogen purification, and ammonia synthesis. Steam reforming converts hydrocarbon feeds to hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water using steam and a catalyst inside heated tubes. There are various options for reforming sections, including pre-reformers, secondary reformers, and gas-heated reformers. Tubular steam reformers are commonly used and can be top fired, side fired, or use a terraced wall design depending on the process designer and plant capacity.
Gundih Carbon Capture and Storage Pilot Project: Current Status of the CCS Pr...CIFOR-ICRAF
The Gundih gas field in Indonesia contains high levels of CO2 in its natural gas. The Gundih Carbon Capture and Storage Pilot Project aims to separate and inject around 800 tons per day of CO2 from the gas stream. So far the CO2 has been flared. The project will inject 30 tons per day of CO2 over two years into the Ngrayong sandstone formation between 830-1100 meters below the surface. Funding from the Asian Development Bank will support surface facility construction, with injection targeted to begin by late 2019. The project is the first carbon capture and storage project in Southeast Asia.
This document discusses small to mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions using modular designs. It provides throughput capacities for various standard LNG plant sizes ranging from 0.25 to 2.0 million metric tons per annum. The modular designs allow for simplified, reduced risk installation. Standard modules include gas processing equipment, liquefaction systems, control systems, and utilities.
Selection of amine solvents for CO2 capture from natural gas power plant - presentation by Jiafei Zhang in the Natural Gas CCS session at the UKCCSRC Cardiff Biannual Meeting, 10-11 September 2014
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CCUS BUSINESS CASEiQHub
The document summarizes technologies for building a carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) value chain. It describes current mature carbon capture technologies like amine-based capture and discusses future developments. It outlines the full CCUS process from capture to transportation, purification, liquefaction, and storage. Industrial hubs around the North Sea are positioned to be early parts of the CCUS value chain due to existing infrastructure and proximity to storage in the North Sea. Technologies are at a commercial level to design an integrated CCUS network, with the largest opportunities in northwest Europe.
Evaluation of CO2 Storage Capacity and EOR in the Bakken Shale Oil ReservoirsHamid Lashgari
This paper presents a new perspective in modeling and analyzing efficiency of CO2 and miscible gas injection for potential enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 storage in shale oil plays. Our major focuses are conceptual and fundamental understanding of the dominant trapping and oil recovery mechanisms behind miscible gas injection. The efficiency of the CO2 Huff-n-Puff process in shale oil production has been widely investigated in recent years because of the ultra-low permeability (1 to 100 µD) of shale oil reservoirs and poor geological connectivity between hydraulic fractured wells. Here we used hydrocarbon fluid properties of a Middle Bakken tight oil reservoir, and considered a wide range of permeability (from 1 to 100µD) and isotherm adsorption properties for CO2 and CH4. A large scale numerical model was set up to simulate and capture the important mechanisms behind various miscible gas injection scenarios.
Simulation results reveal that CO2 adsorption and CH4 desorption along with molecular diffusion of hydrocarbon components are crucial in the presence of organic matter content and pores, however, recycle enriched gas injection demonstrated a high oil recovery compared to miscible CO2 injection. Although CO2 adsorption is large in organic rich shale oil based on literature measurements, CO2 efficiency in enhancing oil recovery is not as much as recycle enriched gas with ethane (C2). However, CO2 trapping may be substantial due to adsorption (5.0% to 10%) and other conventional trapping mechanisms, and the amount of CO2 trapped could be a significant fraction of the total injected amount (25% to 50% considering other trapping mechanisms such as CO¬2 dissolution, residual, and free gas). Simulation results strongly support that CO2 molecular diffusion can assist in the deep penetration of CO2 to touch larger surface area of matrix to become adsorbed, as well as dissolved in other coexisting phases and residual trapping.
This document discusses ammonia (NH3) formation over steam reforming catalysts. It provides rules of thumb for NH3 formation in primary and secondary reformers, noting it is kinetically limited and does not reach equilibrium. NH3 formation is influenced by nitrogen concentration, hydrogen concentration, temperature, catalyst activity, residence time, and pressure. The document also presents theoretical rate equations and discusses how process conditions like steam:carbon ratio affect NH3 production. Graphs demonstrate the effect of temperature and pressure on NH3 production.
This document discusses primary reforming processes for producing hydrogen and ammonia. It describes a simplified steam reforming process that involves steam reforming, water-gas shift reaction, hydrogen purification, and ammonia synthesis. Steam reforming converts hydrocarbon feeds to hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water using steam and a catalyst inside heated tubes. There are various options for reforming sections, including pre-reformers, secondary reformers, and gas-heated reformers. Tubular steam reformers are commonly used and can be top fired, side fired, or use a terraced wall design depending on the process designer and plant capacity.
Gundih Carbon Capture and Storage Pilot Project: Current Status of the CCS Pr...CIFOR-ICRAF
The Gundih gas field in Indonesia contains high levels of CO2 in its natural gas. The Gundih Carbon Capture and Storage Pilot Project aims to separate and inject around 800 tons per day of CO2 from the gas stream. So far the CO2 has been flared. The project will inject 30 tons per day of CO2 over two years into the Ngrayong sandstone formation between 830-1100 meters below the surface. Funding from the Asian Development Bank will support surface facility construction, with injection targeted to begin by late 2019. The project is the first carbon capture and storage project in Southeast Asia.
Cbm block reserve estimation using eclipseSafdar Ali
This document provides information about simulating coal bed methane reservoirs using the Eclipse reservoir simulator. It begins with objectives of learning the basics of Eclipse and modeling CBM blocks. It then provides background on coal bed methane, describing it as natural gas stored in coal seams. The document outlines the importance of CBM extraction. It discusses dual porosity models and how Eclipse simulates diffusion processes using sorption time. It then presents a case study where Eclipse was used to model a CBM reservoir and analyze impacts of sorption time and initial water saturation. The results showed Eclipse can accurately model production profiles when accounting for diffusion and sorption processes.
This document discusses strategies for carbon capture and storage as well as carbon dioxide utilization at PT Krakatau Steel in Indonesia. It analyzes models for CO2 capture from steel production and power plants, as well as sequestration methods like injection into geological formations or for enhanced oil recovery. Utilization strategies examined include microalgae cultivation for biofuels, seaweed farming to sequester carbon, and thermal decomposition of CO2 into synthesis gas. The document provides an overview of these various carbon reduction program options and references supporting literature.
This document discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing CO2 emissions and global warming. It covers various aspects of CCS including CO2 capture technologies like post-combustion capture using solvents, compression and transport of captured CO2, and geological storage options in saline aquifers or for enhanced oil recovery. The high cost of CCS technologies is also addressed.
The Asia CCUS Network has been successfully launched on 22-23 June 2021 with initially 13 countries (all ASEAN member countries, the United States, Australia, and Japan) and more than 100 international organisations, companies, financial and research institutions that share the vision of CCUS development throughout the Asian region.
The Network members have expressed their intention to participate to share the vision of the Asia CCUS Network that aims to contribute to the decarbonisation of emissions in Asia through collaboration and cooperation on development and deployment of CCUS.
The Asia CCUS Network provides opportunities for countries in the region to work and collaborate on the low emission technology partnership that will eventually help to build countries’ capability to lower the cost of CCUS technology and its deployment through the collaboration of research and innovation.
At the 2nd Asia CCUS Network (ACN) Knowledge Sharing Conference, the Asia CCUS Network is very pleased to invite experts from the Department of Energy, United States of America (USDOE) to share their insights and experiences about CCUS development and policy to support the deployment of CCUS technology.
The ACN will be an active forum to bridge the knowledge gap on CCUS technologies, policy development to support the development and deployment of CCUS in Asia. Thus, this conference hosted in collaboration with IEA will help to bring in update knowledge, opportunity for investment in CCUS in Asia.
The role of CCS/CCUS in the Climate Action Plan - Dr S. Julio FriedmannGlobal CCS Institute
The role of CCS/CCUS in the Climate Action Plan
Global CCS Institute, delivered at the Global CCS Institute's Third Americas Forum
Feb. 27th, 2014, Washington, DC
Low Temperature Shift Catalyst Reduction Procedure
VSG-C111 as supplied contains copper oxide; it is activated for the low temperature shift duty by reducing the copper oxide component to metallic copper with hydrogen. The reaction is highly exothermic. In order to achieve maximum activity, good performance and long life, it is essential that the reduction is conducted under correctly controlled conditions. Great care must be taken to avoid thermal damage during this critical operation.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCSP) research program overviewCLEEN_Ltd
This document provides an overview of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies and research in Finland. It defines CCS as the capture, transportation, and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. It then outlines Finland's Carbon Capture and Storage Program from 2011-2015 that involves industry and research partners developing CCS concepts and technologies, with a goal of pilots and demonstrations. Key research areas include capture solutions, transportation, storage sites in the Baltic Sea, utilization of CO2, and regulatory frameworks. Recent projects developed new seismic sensors to monitor CO2 storage and a process to convert steelmaking waste into calcium carbonate.
The seminar discusses carbon dioxide capturing and sequestration (CCS) technologies. It identifies major sources of CO2 emissions and explains the CCS process involving carbon capture, transportation, and storage. Methods of carbon capture discussed include pre-combustion, post-combustion, and oxy-combustion approaches. Storage options covered are terrestrial sequestration in plants/soil, geological sequestration underground, and ocean sequestration. The seminar also addresses environmental impacts of CCS, the current maturity of CCS systems, and the potential of direct air capture technologies to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels.
Theory of Carbon Formation in Steam Reforming
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Underpinning Theory
2.1 Conceptualization
2.2 Reforming Reactions
2.3 Carbon Formation Chemistry
2.3.1 Natural Gas
2.3.2 Carbon Formation for Naphtha Feeds
2.3.3 Carbon Gasification
2.4 Heat Transfer
3 Causes
3.1 Effects of Carbon Formation
3.2 Types of Carbon
4 What are the Effects of Carbon Formation?
4.1 Why does Carbon Formation Get Worse?
4.1.1 So what is the Next Step?
4.2 Consequences of Carbon Formation
4.3 Why does Carbon Form where it does?
4.3.1 Effect on Process Gas Temperature
4.4 Why does Carbon Formation Propagate Down the Tube?
4.4.1 Effect on Radiation on the Fluegas Side
4.5 Why does Carbon Formation propagate Up the Tube?
5 How do we Prevent Carbon Formation
5.1 The Role of Potash
5.2 Inclusion of Pre-reformer
5.3 Primary Reformer Catalyst Parameters
5.3.1 Activity
5.3.2 Heat Transfer
5.3.3 Increased Steam to Carbon Ratio
6 Steam Out
6.1 Why does increasing the Steam to Carbon Ratio Not Work?
6.2 Why does reducing the Feed Rate not help?
6.3 Fundamental Principles of Steam Outs
TABLES
1 Heat Transfer Coefficients in a Typical Reformer
2 Typical Catalyst Loading Options
FIGURES
1 Hot Bands
2 Conceptual Pellet
3 Naphtha Carbon Formation
4 Heat Transfer within an Reformer
5 Types of Carbon Formation
6 Effect of Carbon on Nickel Crystallites
7 Absorption of Heat
8 Comparison of "Base Case" v Carbon Forming Tube
9 Carbon Formation Vicious Circle
10 Temperature Profiles
11 Carbon Pinch Point
12 Carbon Formation
13 Effect on Process Gas Temperature
14 How does Carbon Propagate into an Unaffected Zone?
15 Movement of the Carbon Forming Region
16 Effect of Hot Bands on Radiative Heat Transfer
17 Effect of Potash on Carbon Formation
18 Application of a Pre-reformer
19 Effect of Activity on Carbon Formation
Common poisons include
Sulfur
Chlorides and other halides
Metals including arsenic, vanadium, mercury, alkali metals (including potassium)
Phosphates
Organo-metalics
1. Introduction reasons for purification, types of poisons, and typical systems
2. Hydrogenation
3. Dechlorination
4. Sulfur Removal
5. Purification system start-up and shut-down
CCS cooperation under Article 6_IEA GHG Webinar 23_03_2023.pptxPaulZakkour1
Summary slide pack of the report: IEAGHG 2023. Integrating CCS in international cooperation and carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. 2023-01, January 2023.
This document discusses catalyst process technology for steam reforming of hydrocarbons. It covers the chemical reactions involved, catalyst design considerations like shape and chemistry, and carbon formation and removal. Key points discussed include the conversion of hydrocarbons to syngas, reforming and shift reactions, factors that influence methane conversion, reformer design, optimizing catalyst shape for heat transfer and pressure drop, using alkali-doped catalysts to prevent carbon formation, and tailored catalyst requirements.
This document discusses coal bed methane (CBM) and CO2 sequestration. CBM is natural gas trapped within coal beds, and can be extracted through drilling wells into coal seams and lowering reservoir pressure. Injecting CO2 into coal beds can enhance CBM recovery while sequestering CO2 emissions. India has significant potential for CBM production given its large coal reserves. Key coalfields in India like Jharia, Raniganj and Bokaro contain many coal seams with good permeability and gas content, representing potential CBM blocks. India's policy framework supports the development of CBM through competitive bidding and tax incentives.
1. The document analyzes the role of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in decarbonizing heavy industry through long-term energy system modeling.
2. It finds that CCUS faces strong competition from hydrogen in steel but is essential in cement. Carbon capture could help produce clean fuels through utilization but clean production routes may be more important than more capture units for deep decarbonization.
3. An 80% industry decarbonization policy has twice the total annual cost as pathways aligned with the Paris Agreement goals.
Supporting CCS deployment – an update from the UK Department of Energy and Cl...Global CCS Institute
2015 has been hailed as a ‘watershed year’ for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Large-scale CCS power projects are now a reality and there’s a growing international recognition of the critical role the technology has to play in climate change mitigation.
The UK has been an important and influential advocate for the technology on the world stage. With two large-scale CCS projects currently working towards a final investment decision, a small pipeline of future projects including a possible industrial CCS hub on the horizon, the UK remains one of the most active countries for CCS development in Europe.
At the heart of the UK CCS story, is a world-leading policy and regulatory approach to establish a holistic framework for CCS commercialisation, moving beyond large-scale demonstration of the technology.
To discuss the UK’s approach to CCS policy and regulation and to give an update on the UK Commercialisation Programme and Research and Innovation results, we were delighted to have Amy Clemitshaw, Deputy Director of the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, within the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, to present the UK CCS story.
Cbm block reserve estimation using eclipseSafdar Ali
This document provides information about simulating coal bed methane reservoirs using the Eclipse reservoir simulator. It begins with objectives of learning the basics of Eclipse and modeling CBM blocks. It then provides background on coal bed methane, describing it as natural gas stored in coal seams. The document outlines the importance of CBM extraction. It discusses dual porosity models and how Eclipse simulates diffusion processes using sorption time. It then presents a case study where Eclipse was used to model a CBM reservoir and analyze impacts of sorption time and initial water saturation. The results showed Eclipse can accurately model production profiles when accounting for diffusion and sorption processes.
This document discusses strategies for carbon capture and storage as well as carbon dioxide utilization at PT Krakatau Steel in Indonesia. It analyzes models for CO2 capture from steel production and power plants, as well as sequestration methods like injection into geological formations or for enhanced oil recovery. Utilization strategies examined include microalgae cultivation for biofuels, seaweed farming to sequester carbon, and thermal decomposition of CO2 into synthesis gas. The document provides an overview of these various carbon reduction program options and references supporting literature.
This document discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing CO2 emissions and global warming. It covers various aspects of CCS including CO2 capture technologies like post-combustion capture using solvents, compression and transport of captured CO2, and geological storage options in saline aquifers or for enhanced oil recovery. The high cost of CCS technologies is also addressed.
The Asia CCUS Network has been successfully launched on 22-23 June 2021 with initially 13 countries (all ASEAN member countries, the United States, Australia, and Japan) and more than 100 international organisations, companies, financial and research institutions that share the vision of CCUS development throughout the Asian region.
The Network members have expressed their intention to participate to share the vision of the Asia CCUS Network that aims to contribute to the decarbonisation of emissions in Asia through collaboration and cooperation on development and deployment of CCUS.
The Asia CCUS Network provides opportunities for countries in the region to work and collaborate on the low emission technology partnership that will eventually help to build countries’ capability to lower the cost of CCUS technology and its deployment through the collaboration of research and innovation.
At the 2nd Asia CCUS Network (ACN) Knowledge Sharing Conference, the Asia CCUS Network is very pleased to invite experts from the Department of Energy, United States of America (USDOE) to share their insights and experiences about CCUS development and policy to support the deployment of CCUS technology.
The ACN will be an active forum to bridge the knowledge gap on CCUS technologies, policy development to support the development and deployment of CCUS in Asia. Thus, this conference hosted in collaboration with IEA will help to bring in update knowledge, opportunity for investment in CCUS in Asia.
The role of CCS/CCUS in the Climate Action Plan - Dr S. Julio FriedmannGlobal CCS Institute
The role of CCS/CCUS in the Climate Action Plan
Global CCS Institute, delivered at the Global CCS Institute's Third Americas Forum
Feb. 27th, 2014, Washington, DC
Low Temperature Shift Catalyst Reduction Procedure
VSG-C111 as supplied contains copper oxide; it is activated for the low temperature shift duty by reducing the copper oxide component to metallic copper with hydrogen. The reaction is highly exothermic. In order to achieve maximum activity, good performance and long life, it is essential that the reduction is conducted under correctly controlled conditions. Great care must be taken to avoid thermal damage during this critical operation.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCSP) research program overviewCLEEN_Ltd
This document provides an overview of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies and research in Finland. It defines CCS as the capture, transportation, and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. It then outlines Finland's Carbon Capture and Storage Program from 2011-2015 that involves industry and research partners developing CCS concepts and technologies, with a goal of pilots and demonstrations. Key research areas include capture solutions, transportation, storage sites in the Baltic Sea, utilization of CO2, and regulatory frameworks. Recent projects developed new seismic sensors to monitor CO2 storage and a process to convert steelmaking waste into calcium carbonate.
The seminar discusses carbon dioxide capturing and sequestration (CCS) technologies. It identifies major sources of CO2 emissions and explains the CCS process involving carbon capture, transportation, and storage. Methods of carbon capture discussed include pre-combustion, post-combustion, and oxy-combustion approaches. Storage options covered are terrestrial sequestration in plants/soil, geological sequestration underground, and ocean sequestration. The seminar also addresses environmental impacts of CCS, the current maturity of CCS systems, and the potential of direct air capture technologies to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels.
Theory of Carbon Formation in Steam Reforming
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Underpinning Theory
2.1 Conceptualization
2.2 Reforming Reactions
2.3 Carbon Formation Chemistry
2.3.1 Natural Gas
2.3.2 Carbon Formation for Naphtha Feeds
2.3.3 Carbon Gasification
2.4 Heat Transfer
3 Causes
3.1 Effects of Carbon Formation
3.2 Types of Carbon
4 What are the Effects of Carbon Formation?
4.1 Why does Carbon Formation Get Worse?
4.1.1 So what is the Next Step?
4.2 Consequences of Carbon Formation
4.3 Why does Carbon Form where it does?
4.3.1 Effect on Process Gas Temperature
4.4 Why does Carbon Formation Propagate Down the Tube?
4.4.1 Effect on Radiation on the Fluegas Side
4.5 Why does Carbon Formation propagate Up the Tube?
5 How do we Prevent Carbon Formation
5.1 The Role of Potash
5.2 Inclusion of Pre-reformer
5.3 Primary Reformer Catalyst Parameters
5.3.1 Activity
5.3.2 Heat Transfer
5.3.3 Increased Steam to Carbon Ratio
6 Steam Out
6.1 Why does increasing the Steam to Carbon Ratio Not Work?
6.2 Why does reducing the Feed Rate not help?
6.3 Fundamental Principles of Steam Outs
TABLES
1 Heat Transfer Coefficients in a Typical Reformer
2 Typical Catalyst Loading Options
FIGURES
1 Hot Bands
2 Conceptual Pellet
3 Naphtha Carbon Formation
4 Heat Transfer within an Reformer
5 Types of Carbon Formation
6 Effect of Carbon on Nickel Crystallites
7 Absorption of Heat
8 Comparison of "Base Case" v Carbon Forming Tube
9 Carbon Formation Vicious Circle
10 Temperature Profiles
11 Carbon Pinch Point
12 Carbon Formation
13 Effect on Process Gas Temperature
14 How does Carbon Propagate into an Unaffected Zone?
15 Movement of the Carbon Forming Region
16 Effect of Hot Bands on Radiative Heat Transfer
17 Effect of Potash on Carbon Formation
18 Application of a Pre-reformer
19 Effect of Activity on Carbon Formation
Common poisons include
Sulfur
Chlorides and other halides
Metals including arsenic, vanadium, mercury, alkali metals (including potassium)
Phosphates
Organo-metalics
1. Introduction reasons for purification, types of poisons, and typical systems
2. Hydrogenation
3. Dechlorination
4. Sulfur Removal
5. Purification system start-up and shut-down
CCS cooperation under Article 6_IEA GHG Webinar 23_03_2023.pptxPaulZakkour1
Summary slide pack of the report: IEAGHG 2023. Integrating CCS in international cooperation and carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. 2023-01, January 2023.
This document discusses catalyst process technology for steam reforming of hydrocarbons. It covers the chemical reactions involved, catalyst design considerations like shape and chemistry, and carbon formation and removal. Key points discussed include the conversion of hydrocarbons to syngas, reforming and shift reactions, factors that influence methane conversion, reformer design, optimizing catalyst shape for heat transfer and pressure drop, using alkali-doped catalysts to prevent carbon formation, and tailored catalyst requirements.
This document discusses coal bed methane (CBM) and CO2 sequestration. CBM is natural gas trapped within coal beds, and can be extracted through drilling wells into coal seams and lowering reservoir pressure. Injecting CO2 into coal beds can enhance CBM recovery while sequestering CO2 emissions. India has significant potential for CBM production given its large coal reserves. Key coalfields in India like Jharia, Raniganj and Bokaro contain many coal seams with good permeability and gas content, representing potential CBM blocks. India's policy framework supports the development of CBM through competitive bidding and tax incentives.
1. The document analyzes the role of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in decarbonizing heavy industry through long-term energy system modeling.
2. It finds that CCUS faces strong competition from hydrogen in steel but is essential in cement. Carbon capture could help produce clean fuels through utilization but clean production routes may be more important than more capture units for deep decarbonization.
3. An 80% industry decarbonization policy has twice the total annual cost as pathways aligned with the Paris Agreement goals.
Supporting CCS deployment – an update from the UK Department of Energy and Cl...Global CCS Institute
2015 has been hailed as a ‘watershed year’ for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Large-scale CCS power projects are now a reality and there’s a growing international recognition of the critical role the technology has to play in climate change mitigation.
The UK has been an important and influential advocate for the technology on the world stage. With two large-scale CCS projects currently working towards a final investment decision, a small pipeline of future projects including a possible industrial CCS hub on the horizon, the UK remains one of the most active countries for CCS development in Europe.
At the heart of the UK CCS story, is a world-leading policy and regulatory approach to establish a holistic framework for CCS commercialisation, moving beyond large-scale demonstration of the technology.
To discuss the UK’s approach to CCS policy and regulation and to give an update on the UK Commercialisation Programme and Research and Innovation results, we were delighted to have Amy Clemitshaw, Deputy Director of the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, within the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, to present the UK CCS story.
Dick Wells presented on carbon capture and storage (CCS) progress in Australia. He discussed that CCS is important for Australia given its reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Several key CCS projects are underway in Australia including large pilot projects to demonstrate storage as well as a pipeline project. Challenges remain around reducing costs, developing transportation infrastructure, and ensuring community acceptance. With progress on current demonstration projects and a supportive policy framework, the Treasury estimates significant CCS deployment in Australia in the coming decades.
Natural Resources Canada – Carbon Capture & Storage in Canada – Claude Gauvin...Global CCS Institute
Canada supports the development and use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to reconcile its economically important energy sector with climate change objectives. CCS could allow continued production and use of fossil fuels while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Canada is taking actions like funding demonstration projects, conducting research and development, developing regulatory frameworks, and engaging domestically and internationally to advance CCS. Significant public investments totaling billions of dollars have supported multiple CCS demonstration projects across various Canadian energy industries.
This document summarizes the UK government's policy on carbon capture and storage (CCS). It outlines the need for CCS to reduce costs of meeting low carbon energy targets. Key policies and programs to support CCS commercialization include electricity market reform, a CCS cost reduction task force, and a 2012 CCS roadmap. It also provides details on two flagship CCS projects in the UK - the White Rose project in Yorkshire and the Peterhead project in Scotland - which received funding under the UK's CCS commercialization programme.
The document summarizes Australia's carbon capture and storage (CCS) policy. It outlines key funding programs that support CCS, including the Emissions Reduction Fund that provides $2.55 billion to purchase emissions reductions. It also discusses Australia's Energy White Paper process and key CCS projects moving ahead, including the Gorgon LNG Project. Additionally, it covers Australia's international collaboration on CCS through organizations like the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and bilateral relations with countries like Japan.
Callide Oxyfuel Project - Jim Craigen - - Global CCS Institute – Nov 2011 Reg...Global CCS Institute
As a part of the Institute's strategic focus on assisting CCS projects through knowledge sharing, three North American roadshow events will help the industry share project experiences and knowledge about CCS. Taking place in the US and Canada, the three events include:
• Austin, Texas on November 8, 2011;
• Calgary, Canada on 10 November, 2011; and
• Washington, D.C. on 19 January, 2012.
The first roadshow focused on sharing project experiences and knowledge from the projects in North America but also brought in projects from Europe (Don valley) and Australia (Callide) so that regionally diverse experiences could be shared amongst a global audience.
Attendance at the event was around 30 to 35 which allowed open and frank discussions around technical, management, and regulatory issues and how these challenges can impact on a project’s advancement and decision making processes.
Summit Power Group is a developer of clean energy projects including carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. Sasha Mackler discussed Summit's focus on developing CCS projects to provide CO2 for enhanced oil recovery and produce low-carbon electricity. Mackler outlined two of Summit's major CCS projects - the Texas Clean Energy Project, a coal gasification facility that will capture 3 million tons of CO2 per year, and the Captain Clean Energy Project in the UK, which will capture over 3.8 million tons of CO2 per year from an integrated gasification combined cycle facility. Mackler noted that while CCS technologies are commercially viable, successful large-scale projects are still needed to demonstrate the business case for implementing C
CCS in Australia – the storage challenge – Dick Wells, Global CCS Institute M...Global CCS Institute
Australia has potential for sufficient carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity, but costs vary significantly by location. Establishing storage is often the critical path for CCS projects. Investments in commercial-scale demonstration projects are needed, as are policy incentives, to make CCS available for commercial deployment by 2020 when Australia aims to reduce emissions by 60%. Key challenges include navigating existing resource rights, long project timelines, cost uncertainties, and gaining public acceptance.
Clare Penrose - No CCS, No 2 degrees. Japan Clean Coal Day 2014Global CCS Institute
This document discusses the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for meeting climate change goals. It notes that fossil fuels will continue to be a major source of energy and that CCS is critical for decarbonizing power generation and industrial processes. Several large-scale CCS projects utilizing coal are under construction in North America, and Japanese technology is supporting some of these projects. Japan is also demonstrating CCS technology through several pilot projects and is collaborating with Australia on a CCS demonstration at a coal-fired power plant. Wide adoption of CCS is considered an important part of scenarios that limit global temperature increase to 2°C.
Update on CCS Activities in Canada and Possible Topics for European Collaboration, Kathryn Gagnon (Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada) UK/Norway/Canada Meeting 18/19 March 2015
Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and...Global CCS Institute
On 15 February, a Roadmap titled for Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and storage was released. The ACCS Roadmap contains analysis and recommendations for policy makers and industry on much needed efforts to ensure CCS deployment in Australia.
This presentation focused on the critical role CCS can play in Australia’s economic prosperity and energy security. To remain within its carbon budget, Australia must accelerate the deployment of CCS. Couple with this, only CCS can ensure energy security for the power sector and high-emissions industries whilst maintain the the vital role the energy sector plays in the Australian economy.
The webinar also detailed what is required to get Australia ready for widespread commercial deployment of CCS through specific set of phases, known as horizons in strategic areas including storage characterisation, legal and regulatory frameworks and public engagement and awareness.
The Roadmap serves as an important focal point for stakeholders advocating for CCS in Australia, and will provide a platform for further work feeding into the Australian Government’s review of climate policy in 2017 and beyond.
It is authored by the University of Queensland and Gamma Energy Technology, and was overseen by a steering committee comprising the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government, CSIRO, CO2CRC Limited, ACALET - COAL21 Fund and ANLEC R&D.
This webinar was presented by Professor Chris Greig, from The University of Queensland.
This document provides an overview and update of the Caledonia Clean Energy Project (CCEP). It summarizes that CCEP aims to build a 570MW gasification power plant in Grangemouth, Scotland that would capture 94% of CO2 emissions from coal. It would transport the captured CO2 via existing pipelines to offshore storage. The project is currently finalizing a grant agreement and work program to further develop preliminary design and feasibility over 18 months. Long term, CCEP aims to be the anchor project for a full integrated CCS system in Scotland capturing from multiple sources and storing in multiple offshore locations while enabling enhanced oil recovery.
Mark Weaver - CCS Projects – Presentation at the Global CCS Institute Members...Global CCS Institute
This document summarizes a presentation on carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in Australia. It discusses Australia's greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments and reliance on fossil fuels, making CCS essential. It outlines the Australian government's support for CCS across the innovation chain, including funding demonstration projects like the CCS Flagships. It notes lessons learned, such as underestimating costs and timeframes and the high risks associated with storage. The challenges of developing CCS include storage issues, building regulations and markets, and attracting long-term private investment across the CCS supply chain.
Lessons Learned on CO2 Storage from the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration...Global CCS Institute
Completing field tests that demonstrate that geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be conducted safely and commercially is one step towards developing robust strategies for mitigating large point source CO2 emissions.
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program (MRCSP) large volume CO2 injection test is providing data for improving capacity estimates and demonstrating storage capacity within a regionally significant resource. MRCSP is also evaluating CO2 storage potential in Ohio and other areas of the Midwest and the East Coast through regional mapping and exploratory site characterization. Lessons learned from pressure data analysis, modeling, monitoring technologies assessment, accounting, regional mapping and exploration enable technology advancements needed to help carbon capture and storage reach a commercial stage.
This webinar presented an update of the progress made to date and key findings from the MRCSP large volume CO2 injection test and regional exploration work. The topics that were covered include:
Background
- About the MRCSP
- Research objectives
Large Volume CO2 Injection Test, Approaches and Results:
- Description/Overview
- Data Uses
- Pressure Data Analysis and Modelling
- Monitoring Technology Assessment
- Accounting
Regional Mapping and Characterization of Storage Resources
- Known Sources and Sinks
- Studies of Reservoirs and Seals Underway
Presentation from Professor Trevor Drage on behalf of the UKCCSRC at the National CCS Week conference in Sydney, Australia on 1 September 2014. http://www.nationalccsweek.com.au/
Qiao and Zhou - CCS in China and the Guangdong CCS readiness study - Presenta...Global CCS Institute
This document outlines a carbon capture and storage readiness study conducted in Guangdong, China. It provides background on carbon emissions and policy in China, highlighting the country's continued reliance on coal. The study aimed to determine if carbon capture and storage (CCS) is needed and applicable in Guangdong. Key tasks included analyzing emissions and storage capacity from major point sources in Guangdong. Preliminary results found power plants accounted for 66% of emissions. Two potential inland storage basins were identified but have low capacity. The Pearl River Mouth Basin offshore has potential for higher storage due to its large size and sediment thickness. The study seeks to inform Guangdong's CCS roadmap and policy.
EC POLICY UPDATE ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ON CCUSiQHub
The document summarizes the European Commission's policy on supporting research and innovation in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies. It outlines the Commission's goals of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through switching to renewable energy and fully decarbonizing carbon-intensive industries using CCUS. The Commission plans to fund CCUS demonstration projects through Horizon Europe and support the deployment of CCUS through various policy tools and funding mechanisms.
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Northern Lights: A European CO2 transport and storage project Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute hosted the final webinar of its "Telling the Norwegian CCS Story" series which presented Northern Lights. This project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project which will include the capture of CO2 at two industrial facilities (cement and waste-to-energy plants), transport and permanent storage of CO2 in a geological reservoir on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Northern Lights aims to establish an open access CO2 transport and storage service for Europe. It is the first integrated commercial project of its kind able to receive CO2 from a variety of industrial sources. The project is led by Equinor with two partners Shell and Total. Northern Lights aims to drive the development of CCS in Europe and globally.
Webinar: Policy priorities to incentivise large scale deployment of CCSGlobal CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute released a new report highlighting strategic policy priorities for the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Institute’s report also reviews the progress achieved until now with existing policies and the reasons behind positive investment decisions for the current 23 large-scale CCS projects in operation and construction globally.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART II: CCS: the path to a sustainable and...Global CCS Institute
The document discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the cement industry in Norway. It provides background on HeidelbergCement, one of the world's largest producers of building materials. It details a CCS project at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway, which aims to capture 400,000 tons of CO2 per year. The captured CO2 would be transported by ship and stored permanently underground in geological formations in the North Sea. The project represents an opportunity for CCS technology to be commercialized at a large scale. However, it depends on support through the FEED study process and a decision by the Norwegian Parliament and HeidelbergCement in 2020.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART I: CCS: the path to sustainable and em...Global CCS Institute
In 2018, the Norwegian government announced its decision to continue the planning of a demonstration project for CO2 capture, transport and storage. This webinar focuses on the Fortum Oslo Varme CCS project. This is one of the two industrial CO2 sources in the Norwegian full-scale project.
At their waste-to-energy plant at Klemetsrud in Oslo, Fortum Oslo Varme produces electricity and district heating for the Oslo region by incinerating waste. Its waste-to-energy plant is one of the largest land-based sources of CO2 emissions in Norway, counting for about 20 % of the city of Oslo’s total emissions. The CCS project in Oslo is an important step towards a sustainable waste system and the creation of a circular economy. It will be the first energy recovery installation for waste disposal treatment with full-scale CCS.
Fortum Oslo Varme has understood the enormous potential for the development of a CCS industry in the waste-to-energy industry. The company is working to capture 90 % of its CO2 emissions, the equivalent of 400 000 tons of CO2 per year. This project will open new opportunities to reduce emissions from the waste sector in Norway and globally. Carbon capture from waste incineration can remove over 90 million tons of CO2 per year from existing plants in Europe. There is high global transfer value and high interest in the industry for the project in Oslo.
The waste treated consists of almost 60 % biological carbon. Carbon capture at waste-to-energy plants will therefore be so-called BIO-CCS (i.e. CCS from the incineration of organic waste, thereby removing the CO2 from the natural cycle).
Find out more about the project by listening to our webinar.
Decarbonizing Industry Using Carbon Capture: Norway Full Chain CCSGlobal CCS Institute
Industrial sectors such as steel, cement, iron, and chemicals production are responsible for over 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To be on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets established as part of the Paris Climate Accord, all sectors must find solutions to rapidly decarbonize, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is the only path for energy-intensive industries.
This webinar will explore how one country, Norway, is working to realize a large-scale Full Chain CCS project, where it is planning to apply carbon capture technology to several industrial facilities. This unique project explores capturing CO2 from three different industrial facilities - an ammonia production plant, a waste-to-energy plant, and a cement production facility. Captured CO2 will be then transported by ship to a permanent off-shore storage site operated as part of a collaboration between Statoil, Total, and Shell. When operational, Norway Full Chain CCS will capture and permanently store up to 1.5 million tons of CO2 per year.
During this webinar, Michael Carpenter, Senior Adviser at Gassnova, will provide an overview of the Norway Full Chain CCS, and discuss the value that Norway aims to derive from it. The key stakeholders working on this exciting project, and how they cooperate, will be also discussed. Gassnova is a Norwegian state enterprise focusing on CCS technology, which manages the Norway Full Chain CCS project.
Cutting Cost of CO2 Capture in Process Industry (CO2stCap) Project overview &...Global CCS Institute
The CO2StCap project is a four year initiative carried out by industry and academic partners with the aim of reducing capture costs from CO2 intensive industries (more info here). The project, led by Tel-Tek, is based on the idea that cost reduction is possible by capturing only a share of the CO2emissions from a given facility, instead of striving for maximized capture rates. This can be done in multiple ways, for instance by capturing only from the largest CO2 sources at individual multi-stack sites utilising cheap waste heat or adapting the capture volumes to seasonal changes in operations.
The main focus of this research is to perform techno-economic analyses for multiple partial CO2 capture concepts in order to identify economic optimums between cost and volumes captured. In total for four different case studies are developed for cement, iron & steel, pulp & paper and ferroalloys industries.
The first part of the webinar gave an overview of the project with insights into the cost estimation method used. The second part presented the iron & steel industry case study based on the Lulea site in Sweden, for which waste-heat mapping methodology has been used to assess the potential for partial capture via MEA-absorption. Capture costs for different CO2 sources were compared and discussed, demonstrating the viability of partial capture in an integrated steelworks.
Webinar presenters included Ragnhild Skagestad, senior researcher at Tel-Tek; Maximilian Biermann, PhD student at Division of Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Maria Sundqvist, research engineer at the department of process integration at Swerea MEFOS.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Ron Munson, Global Lead-Capture at the Global CCS Institute.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Alfred “Buz” Brown, Founder, CEO and Chairman of ION Engineering.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Tim Merkel, Director, Research and Development Group at Membrane Technology & Research (MTR)
Mission Innovation aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Through a series of Innovation Challenges, member countries have pledged to support actions aimed at accelerating research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in technology areas where MI members believe increased international attention would make a significant impact in our shared fight against climate change. The Innovation Challenges cover the entire spectrum of RD&D; from early stage research needs assessments to technology demonstration projects.
The Carbon Capture Innovation challenge aims to explore early stage research opportunities in the areas of Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Carbon Storage. The goal of the Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge is twofold: first, to identify and prioritize breakthrough technologies; and second, to recommend research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) pathways and collaboration mechanisms.
During the webinar, Dr Tidjani Niass, Saudi Aramco, and Jordan Kislear, US Department of Energy, provided an overview of progress to date. They also highlighted detail opportunities for business and investor engagement, and discuss future plans for the Innovation Challenge.
This webinar discussed two studies on achieving a low-carbon economy in the United States: the Risky Business Project and the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy Report. Four pathways were examined that could reduce US carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 through different technology mixes, including high renewables, high nuclear, high carbon capture and storage, and mixed resources. All pathways required upfront investments but achieved both emissions reductions and fuel savings over time. Implementation challenges included the pace of power plant construction, expanding the electric grid and building electric vehicle infrastructure. The webinar compared the pathways and findings to the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy Report.
Webinar Series: Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum Part 1. CCUS in the Uni...Global CCS Institute
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a Ministerial-level international climate change initiative that is focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). As part of our commitment to raising awareness of CCS policies and technology, CSLF, with support from the Global CCS Institute, is running a series of webinars showcasing academics and researchers that are working on some of the most interesting CCS projects and developments from around the globe.
This first webinar comes to you from Abu Dhabi – the site of the Mid-Year CSLF Meeting and home of the Al Reyadah Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Project. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the world’s major oil exporters, with some of the highest levels of CO2 emissions per capita. These factors alone make this a very interesting region for the deployment of CCUS both as an option for reducing CO2 emissions, but also linking these operations for the purposes of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.
In the UAE, CCUS has attracted leading academic institutes and technology developers to work on developing advanced technologies for reducing CO2 emissions. On Wednesday, 26th April, we had the opportunity to join the Masdar Institute’s Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Mohammad Abu Zahra to learn about the current status and potential for CCUS in the UAE.
Mohammad presented an overview of the current large scale CCUS demonstration project in the UAE, followed by a presentation and discussion of the ongoing research and development activities at the Masdar Institute.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to put your questions directly to this experienced researcher and learn more about the fascinating advances being made at the Masdar Institute.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 5: So...Global CCS Institute
The fifth webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series will explore the critically important subject of social site characterisation with the very researchers who named the process.
We were delighted to be able to reunite CCS engagement experts Sarah Wade and Sallie Greenberg, Ph.D. to revisit their 2011 research and guidance: ‘Social Site Characterisation: From Concept to Application’. When published, this research and toolkit helped early CCS projects worldwide to raise the bar on their existing engagement practices. For this webinar, we tasked these early thought leaders with reminding us of the importance of this research and considering the past recommendations in today’s context. Sarah and Sallie tackled the following commonly asked questions:
What exactly is meant by social site characterisation?
Why it is important?
What would they consider best practice for getting to understand the social intricacies and impacts of a CCS project site?
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to share leading research and best practice and consider these learnings as applied to real project examples. So for this fifth Webinar, we were really pleased to be joined by Ruth Klinkhammer, Senior Manager, Communications and Engagement at CMC Research Institutes. Ruth agreed to share some of her experiences and challenges of putting social site characterisation into practice onsite at some of CMC’s larger research projects.
This Webinar combined elements of public engagement research with real world application and discussion, explore important learnings and conclude with links to further resources for those wishing to learn more. This a must for anyone working in or studying carbon capture and storage or other CO2 abatement technologies. If you have ever nodded along at a conference where the importance of understanding stakeholders is acknowledged, but then stopped to wonder – what might that look like in practice? This Webinar is for you.
Managing carbon geological storage and natural resources in sedimentary basinsGlobal CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute, together with Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development (ANLEC R&D), will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website.
This is the eighth webinar of the series and will present on basin resource management and carbon storage. With the ongoing deployment of CCS facilities globally, the pore space - the voids in the rock deep in sedimentary basins – are now a commercial resource. This is a relatively new concept with only a few industries utilising that pore space to date.
This webinar presented a framework for the management of basin resources including carbon storage. Prospective sites for geological storage of carbon dioxide target largely sedimentary basins since these provide the most suitable geological settings for safe, long-term storage of greenhouse gases. Sedimentary basins can host different natural resources that may occur in isolated pockets, across widely dispersed regions, in multiple locations, within a single layer of strata or at various depths.
In Australia, the primary basin resources are groundwater, oil and gas, unconventional gas, coal and geothermal energy. Understanding the nature of how these resources are distributed in the subsurface is fundamental to managing basin resource development and carbon dioxide storage. Natural resources can overlap laterally or with depth and have been developed successfully for decades. Geological storage of carbon dioxide is another basin resource that must be considered in developing a basin-scale resource management system to ensure that multiple uses of the subsurface can sustainably and pragmatically co-exist.
This webinar was presented by Karsten Michael, Research Team Leader, CSIRO Energy.
Mercury and other trace metals in the gas from an oxy-combustion demonstratio...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the seventh webinar of the series and presented the results of a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant in Central Queensland.
The behaviour of trace metals and the related characteristics of the formation of fine particles may have important implications for process options, gas cleaning, environmental risk and resultant cost in oxy-fuel combustion. Environmental and operational risk will be determined by a range of inter-related factors including:
The concentrations of trace metals in the gas produced from the overall process;
Capture efficiencies of the trace species in the various air pollution control devices used in the process; including gas and particulate control devices, and specialised systems for the removal of specific species such as mercury;
Gas quality required to avoid operational issues such as corrosion, and to enable sequestration in a variety of storage media without creating unacceptable environmental risks; the required quality for CO2 transport will be defined by (future and awaited) regulation but may be at the standards currently required of food or beverage grade CO2; and
Speciation of some trace elements
Macquarie University was engaged by the Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development Ltd (ANLEC R&D) to investigate the behaviour of trace elements during oxy-firing and CO2 capture and processing in a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant, with capability for both oxy and air-firing. Gaseous and particulate sampling was undertaken in the process exhaust gas stream after fabric filtration at the stack and at various stages of the CO2 compression and purification process. These measurements have provided detailed information on trace components of oxy-fired combustion gases and comparative measurements under air fired conditions. The field trials were supported by laboratory work where combustion took place in a drop tube furnace and modelling of mercury partitioning using the iPOG model.
The results obtained suggest that oxy-firing does not pose significantly higher environmental or operational risks than conventional air-firing. The levels of trace metals in the “purified” CO2 gas stream should not pose operational issues within the CO2 Processing Unit (CPU).
This webinar was presented by Peter Nelson, Professor of Environmental Studies, and Anthony Morrison, Senior Research Fellow, from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 4: Is...Global CCS Institute
Teesside Collective has been developing a financial support mechanism to kickstart an Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) network in the UK. This project would transform the Teesside economy, which could act as a pilot area in the UK as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy.
The final report– produced by Pöyry Management Consulting in partnership with Teesside Collective – outlines how near-term investment in CCS can be a cost-effective, attractive proposition for both Government and energy-intensive industry.
The report was published on Teesside Collective’s website on 7 February. You will be able to view copies of the report in advance of the webinar.
We were delighted to welcome Sarah Tennison from Tees Valley Combined Authority back onto the webinar programme. Sarah was joined by Phil Hare and Stuart Murray from Pöyry Management Consulting, to take us through the detail of the model and business case for Industrial CCS.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to speak directly with these project developers and understand more about their proposed financial support mechanism.
Laboratory-scale geochemical and geomechanical testing of near wellbore CO2 i...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016 and 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the sixth webinar of the series and presented the results of chemical and mechanical changes that carbon dioxide (CO2) may have at a prospective storage complex in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia.
Earth Sciences and Chemical Engineering researchers at the University of Queensland have been investigating the effects of supercritical CO2 injection on reservoir properties in the near wellbore region as a result of geochemical reactions since 2011. The near wellbore area is critical for CO2 injection into deep geological formations as most of the resistance to flow occurs in this region. Any changes to the permeability can have significant economic impact in terms of well utilisation efficiency and compression costs. In the far field, away from the well, the affected reservoir is much larger and changes to permeability through blocking or enhancement have relatively low impact.
This webinar was presented by Prof Sue Golding and Dr Grant Dawson and will provide an overview of the findings of the research to assist understanding of the beneficial effects and commercial consequences of near wellbore injectivity enhancement as a result of geochemical reactions.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 3: Ca...Global CCS Institute
The third webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series digged deeper, perhaps multiple kilometres deeper, to explore successful methods for engaging the public on the often misunderstood topic of carbon (CO2) storage.
Forget bad experiences of high school geology, we kick-started our 2017 webinar program with three ‘rock stars’ of CO2 storage communication – Dr Linda Stalker, Science Director of Australia’s National Geosequestration Laboratory, Lori Gauvreau, Communication and Engagement Specialist for Schlumberger Carbon Services, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre who all joined Kirsty Anderson, the Institute’s Senior Advisor on Public Engagement, to discuss the challenges of communicating about CO2 storage. They shared tips, tools and some creative solutions for getting people engaged with this topic.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for carbon capture and storage. This third webinar was less focused on research and more on the real project problems and best practice solutions. It is a must for anyone interested in science communication/education and keen to access resources and ideas to make their own communications more engaging.
Water use of thermal power plants equipped with CO2 capture systemsGlobal CCS Institute
The potential for increased water use has often been noted as a challenge to the widespread deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Early studies, that are widely referenced and cited in discussions of CCS, indicated that installation of a capture system would nearly double water consumption for thermal power generation, while more recent studies show different results. The Global CCS Institute has conducted a comprehensive review of data available in order to clarify messages around water consumption associated with installation of a capture system. Changes in water use estimates over time have been evaluated in terms of capture technology, cooling systems, and how the data are reported.
Guido Magneschi, Institute’s Senior Advisor – Carbon Capture, and co-author of the study, presented the results of the review and illustrated the main conclusions.
Global Status of CCS: 2016. Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest C...Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute launched The Global Status of CCS: 2016 at a dedicated event at the 22nd conference of the parties (COP 22) in Marrakech on Tuesday, 15 November.
The Global Status of CCS: 2016 report is an essential reference for industry, government, research bodies, and the broader community, providing a comprehensive overview of global and regional CCS developments.
Following the report launch, we will run a number of webinars commencing in November 2016, through to early 2017.
A Summary of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 will be accessible on our website from 15 November, and includes updates on key CCS facilities, including two major facilities now in operation:
Shell’s Quest Project in Canada
Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project in Japan
These projects are significant 2016 milestones and testament to the safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of CCS as an integral technology to meeting Paris Agreement climate change targets.
Please join us for the first of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 webinar series.
Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest CCS Project
As one of a handful of large-scale CCS projects currently injecting CO2 into a dedicated saline aquifer storage site, Shell’s Quest project offers a unique case study into the performance of dedicated storage. The Quest project injects CO2 into the Basal Cambrian Sandstone located 2 km below the surface. After the first year of operations, the Quest reservoir has exceeded internal expectations. While the original premise called for eight wells, today only two of three constructed injection wells take 100 per cent of project volumes (~140 tonnes /hr).
In this webinar, Simon O’Brien, Shell Quest Subsurface Manager, discussed storage performance at Quest after one year of operations as well as early results from the measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV) plan.
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A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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Power Grid Model
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Overview
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Key Topics Covered
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7. What is Prometheus?
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8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
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11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
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12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdf
Wayne Calder – Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism – CCS and carbon price policy in Australia
1. Australia’s CCS and Carbon Price Policy
GCCSI Regional Members Meeting
8 June 2012, Tokyo, Japan
Presented by
Wayne Calder
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
2. The need for action
• Australia faces significant environmental,
economic and social costs associated with
global climate change
• Countries around the world are already taking
action to cut CO2 emissions and 32 countries
already have emissions trading schemes
• The Australian Government has committed to
reducing CO2 emissions by at least 5 per cent
compared with 2000 levels by 2020
• New Australian target to cut CO2 emissions by
80 per cent below 2000 levels by 2050
5. Transitional Arrangements
8.6 billion Jobs and Competitiveness Program
includes assistance for:
• Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed Industries
• Strongly affected electricity generators
• Planned retirement of highly emissions
intensive generators
he $1.26 billion coal sector jobs package will
assist the most emissions intensive coal mines
he $70 million Coal Mining Abatement
6. Australian CCS Policy
• Australian support for CCS precedes a carbon price and includes:
• Funding for the CO2CRC since 1999
• Coal industry contributions to the COAL 21 initiative since 2004
• Membership of CSLF and Asia Pacific Partnership
• Callide Oxyfuel and other capture projects
• Significant funding for R&D, demonstration projects and to establish the
Global CCS Institute over 2008 and 2009
• Why does Australia support CCS?
– Heavy reliance on coal for power generation
and growing profile of gas/LNG developments
– Responsibilities as a major international energy supplier
– Alongside energy efficiency and renewable energy, CCS is required to
make deep emissions cuts at least cost to the economy
ENHANCING AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
7. CCS Policy Elements in
Australia – the puzzle
Legislative
Certainty
Knowledge-
Sharing Storage
Community
Acceptance
Stakeholder R&D
Engagement
Project
Demonstration
8. Australian Government
funding
• Major government funding support flows from:
– CCS Flagships program ($1.7 billion)
– National Low Emissions Coal Initiative ($370 million),
established in 2008
– National CO2 Infrastructure Plan ($61 million)
– Global CCS Institute ($315 million)
• With additional support flowing from other
programs.
11. The Collie
South West Hub
• Major industrial area of WA
generating 25 MT of CO2 p.a.
• Sequestration of 300,000
tonnes of CO2 in bauxite
residue
• Storage of up to 6.5 MT of CO2
per annum for 40 years being
investigated
12. CarbonNet Project
Post Combustion Capture
Pre Combustion Capture
IGCC
Pipeline
Concept route only
Pre Combustion Capture
IDGCC
20 km
13. Callide Oxyfuel Project
Background
• Project involves retro-fitting oxy-combustion technology to a 30 MW unit of the
Callide A power station in Queensland and the capture and geological storage
of 10,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
• Collaborative Project involving Australian and Japanese Governments and
industry including CS Energy, JCOAL, Xstrata Coal, Schlumberger, IHI, Mitsui,
and JPower.
Status
• Generation of electricity by oxy-firing commenced in March 2012. Project
expected to start capturing CO2 around the end of 2012.
Challenges
• Proving Oxyfuel technology at scale and obtaining access to a suitable storage
site.
14. Summary
• A carbon price will commence in Australia on 1 July 2012
• The policy is designed to transition the economy to a low carbon
future and to incentivise investment in least cost abatement
• CCS policy and programs precede the introduction of a carbon
price and will complement long term abatement targets
• Demonstrating CCS at commercial scale is critical to future
deployment
• Planning for and implementing demonstration projects requires
consideration of all elements of the CCS puzzle and generates
valuable knowledge
15. Thank you
ENHANCING AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
Editor's Notes
Australia faces significant costs as a result: Rising temperatures = more extreme weather (droughts, floods and bushfires). Australia's rising sea levels will also impact coastal cities. Climate change will impact water security, coastal development, agriculture and health. CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology projections show that if the world does not take action to tackle climate change, Australia’s average temperatures will increase by between 2.2 degrees and 5 degrees Celsius by 2070 (compared with 1990 levels). This will have significant impacts on Australia’s ecosystems – for example, the survival of the Great Barrier Reef will be in jeopardy as higher ocean temperatures and acidity levels cause major changes to coral reefs. Australia’s carbon pollution: Australia’s total emissions were approximately 561 million tonnes in 2010 Australia’s carbon pollution represents around 1.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – this makes us one of the top 20 polluting countries in the world. This is driven by Australia’s use of fossil fuels – our energy sector is very emissions-intensive due to the availability of cheap and abundant coal. Many countries around the world are already taking action to reduce their pollution: 89 countries – representing 80 per cent of global emissions and 90 per cent of the world’s economy – have already pledged to take action on climate change. Globally, more money is invested in new renewable power than in conventional high-pollution energy generation. China is now the world’s largest manufacturer of both solar panels and wind turbines. 31 European countries – including the UK, Germany and France – have a price on pollution through emissions trading schemes. New Zealand started emissions trading in 2008. Carbon taxes are also in place in the United Kingdom, India, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Costa Rica and Ireland. Pollution reduction targets: The Government’s plan will reduce pollution by at least 5 per cent compared with 2000 levels by 2020 – this will require cutting net expected pollution by at least 23 per cent in 2020. This is equivalent to taking over 45 million cars off the road by 2020. By 2050, the Government is committed to cutting pollution to 80 per cent below 2000 levels.
The Australian Government is building a clean energy future and has a comprehensive plan which includes: Introducing a CARBON PRICE and returning every cent to assist households, support jobs and build a new clean energy future Promoting innovation and investment in RENEWABLE ENERGY Encouraging ENERGY EFFICIENCY Creating opportunities in the LAND SECTOR to cut pollution and improve productivity, sustainability and resilience This plan will provide a price signal to the market to incentivise investment in longer term abatement technologies that represent least cost from a firm/industry/economic perspective.
How the carbon price works This image shows how the carbon price works. From 1 July 2012, Australia’s biggest polluters will buy permits from the Government for every tonne of pollution they create. This, for the first time, will create an incentive to cut pollution. For the first three years the carbon price will be fixed, moving to an emissions trading scheme in 2015. In the fixed price stage (from 1 July 2012 – 30 June 2015), the carbon price will start at $23 per tonne and rise by 2.5 per cent a year in real terms. Under emissions trading, the Government puts a cap on pollution by restricting the number of permits. The price will be determined by the market. This will drive innovation and investment in low pollution activities. Businesses that lower their pollution will avoid buying a permit giving them a competitive advantage compared to those that do not. Some businesses are likely to pass on their costs to their customers, leading to modest price increases. The Government will be providing direct financial assistance to most Australian households through increased pension and family payments and tax cuts for low and middle- income households. Nine out of ten households will receive some assistance. Household assistance will be permanent. Australia will tackle climate change and build a clean energy future.
Jobs and Competitiveness Program The Government’s Jobs and Competitiveness Program will support jobs in high-polluting industries with competitors in countries where those industries are not yet subject to comparable carbon constraints - worth $8.6 billion over its first three years This assistance will be in the form of free carbon permits. This will shield these business activities from the impact of a carbon price while maintaining incentives to invest in cleaner technologies, which will underpin their competitiveness as the world moves to price carbon pollution. There will be two categories of assistance under the Jobs and Competitiveness Program. The most emissions-intensive, trade-exposed activities will initially be eligible for free permits representing 94.5 per cent of industry average carbon costs. This will apply to manufacturing activities like aluminium smelting, steel manufacturing, flat glass making, zinc smelting and most pulp and paper manufacturing activities. Activities which have lower levels of carbon pollution, such as some plastics and chemical manufacturing, tissue paper manufacturing and ethanol production will be eligible for free permits to cover 66 per cent of the industry average carbon costs. Liquefied Natural Gas projects will also receive a supplementary allocation to ensure an effective assistance rate of 50 per cent. The Jobs and Competitiveness Program will provide support to activities that generate over 80 per cent of emissions within the manufacturing sector. The application process for the Jobs and Competitiveness program will begin 1 July 2012. Jobs created in a Clean Energy Future The Government’s plan will provide new economic opportunities for Australian workers Many businesses will invest in new technology to generate less pollution and become more efficient Jobs will be created in renewable energy generation, carbon farming and sustainable design to name just a few. Two new measures have been announced under the Clean Energy Future to will help the coal mine sector to reduce its emissions The Coal Sector Jobs Package This package will provide $1.26 billion in assistance to the most emission-intensive coal mines over the first five years of the carbon price. Assistance will be provided to eligible coal mines for up to 80% of their fugitive emissions exposure above a certain threshold. The Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package This package will provide $70 million over five years to support the development and deployment of technology to reduce fugitive emissions from coal mines; To support work on safety and regulatory issues associated with the introduction of abatement technologies, equipment and processes; and To help small and medium coal sector participants adapt and undertake feasibility studies to reduce emissions.
TREASURY MODELLING - The Australian Government is committed to achieving major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The Government has pledged to reduce Australia’s emissions by 5% below 2000 levels by 2020, regardless of the action taken by other countries. This target may be increased to as much as 25% if there is global agreement to limit temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius. As part of the new Clean Energy Future package, the Government has adopted a new long-term target to reduce carbon pollution by 80% below 2000 levels by 2050. Given Australia’s heavy reliance on coal, these targets are a major challenge for Australia. Coal generates 80% of our electricity, and is responsible for around 32% of our emissions. CO2 emissions reduction is being tackled on a number of fronts including energy efficiency, expanding the role of renewable energy and switching to less greenhouse intensive fuels. Ultimately, carbon capture and storage (CCS) will need to be commercially available to achieve large cuts in emissions from coal-fired power and other emissions-intensive industries. Australia’s CCS policy reflects this challenge as a major coal supplier – to lead by example and to support the further development and commercialisation of CCS technologies. The introduction of a carbon price as part of the Clean Energy Future package will shape the long-term deployment of CCS projects in Australia. The Government believes that the introduction of a carbon price sends a strong signal to the energy market to encourage investment in a range of activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Australian Government recognises that support is necessary to ensure CCS is available for commercial deployment from 2020 in order to meet our emissions reduction targets. Government policy is therefore aimed at providing the framework and investment support needed to accelerate the development and deployment of CCS. The puzzle on this slide summarises the six major elements of Australia’s policy approach to CCS - namely legislative certainty, storage issues, research and development, demonstration projects (at both the pilot and medium-scale stage, as well as commercial-scale demonstration stage), stakeholder engagement, and knowledge-sharing and collaboration. Australian policy is aimed at addressing these in integrated manner. I’ll go through each of these in more detail in this presentation, but there is one final element that is critical to the success of CCS in Australia - namely public perceptions and attitudes to CCS. It is a central issue that requires careful management. We may get everything else right but unless there is public support for CCS these pieces of the puzzle will not come together. For this reason, community consultation and engagement is a key requirement of any project funded by the Australian Government. The National CCS Council brings together key stakeholders to advise the Australian Government on the accelerated development and deployment of CCS in Australia to contribute significantly to GHG emission reductions.
The funding of almost $1.7 billion for the Flagships program is to support commercial-scale demonstration projects in Australia. The National Low Emissions Coal Initiative (NLECI) commenced in 2008 and provides funding of $370 million over eight years to a range of initiatives, including: $75 million to ANLEC R&D, combined with matched funding from the coal industry through the Coal21 Fund; $50 million to the National Carbon Mapping and Infrastructure Plan, which was developed by the Carbon Storage Taskforce; $50 million to the Callide oxyfuel combustion project; and $150 million to low emissions coal demonstration projects in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. The NLECI also provides $20 million to support the activities agreed by the Australia-China Joint Coordination Group on Clean Coal Technology. The National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) announced in the 2011-11 Budget provides further funding of $61, most of which is being directed to obtaining geological data to support detailed storage site assessment. Further funding for CCS activities flows from Government support for other activities, most notably support for the Cooperative Research Centre on CCS. I will discuss the various activities under these separately
As I just mentioned, demonstration projects are one of the six key elements of Australia’s policy approach to CCS. The Australian Government administers the CCS Flagships Program, which provides funding of almost $1.7 billion to support commercial-scale demonstration projects in Australia. Each of the projects has to meet three requirements. They must: have integrated capture, transport and storage; have matching State government and industry funding; and commence commissioning from 2015. In December 2009, the Government announced four shortlisted projects and the provision of up to $120 million funding for associated pre-feasibility work. The shortlisted projects are shown on this map – the CarbonNet project, the Collie South West Hub project, and the Wandoan project. In June 2011 the Australian Government announced that it had selected the Collie South West Hub project in WA for further funding under the Flagships Program. Earlier this month the Government announced the CarbonNet project as the second project selected for funding through the feasibility stage. The Government has agreed to reconsider Queensland’s Wandoan project in 12 months’ time subject to conditions predominantly related to progressing prefeasibility studies and the availability of program funding. There’s one further project identified on the map, which isn’t part of the Flagships Program – the $50 billion Gorgon Project in Western Australia. This will be the largest CO2 storage project in the world when it comes online, and represents a critical step towards demonstrating the viability of large-scale commercial storage of CO2. Community consultation will be a key part of the work programs for all large-scale demonstration projects ahead of any decision to make financial commitments.
Joint venture operator Chevron is developing the Gorgon and Jansz fields to supply a 15.4 million tonne/annum liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island The Gorgon Carbon Dioxide Injection Project proposes to inject CO2 stripped from the reservoir gas into the Dupuy Formation below Barrow Island at a depth of some 2300 metres At 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year from 2015 this will be the world’s largest CCS project
Through the CCS Flagships Program the Australian Government is providing up to $52 million in funding to complete a detailed storage viability study. The South West Hub project is a proposal by a consortium of electrical power generators and industrial users of coal (Collie-South West CO 2 Geosequestration Hub) to store carbon dioxide from emitters in Collie and Kwinana. Participants include two coal miners, two alumina refiners, two power generators and a coal to urea project at Collie. The four year research and evaluation project proposes that CO 2 will be transported by a common user pipeline to an injection site within the Shire of Harvey where it will be injected into deep Lesueur sandstone strata.
On 10 February 2012, the Australian Government announced the CarbonNet project as the second project selected for funding through the feasibility stage. Up to $100 million ($70 million from the Australian Government and $30 million from the Victorian Government) will be available for the feasibility stage work which will be predominantly focused on modelling and testing of potential CO2 storage sites. The project is ideally situated in Gippsland - Latrobe Valley region, which has vast reserves of brown coal and a large electricity generation hub utilising the coal reserves. The project aims to capture carbon emissions from the area and store it in nearby geological basins. This project will bring new opportunities for the use of Latrobe Valley’s extensive brown coal reserves for making higher value coal by-products for domestic use and export.
Talking Points Project outline: The Callide Oxyfuel project aims to demonstrate the retrofitting of oxy-combustion technology to a 30 megawatt unit in an existing power plant in Queensland (Stage 1) and the capture and geological storage of up to 17,000 tonnes of CO2 (Stage 2). Status : Generation of electricity by oxyfiring coupled with CO2 capture is due to commence in March 2012 with the remaining capital works under Stage 1 due for completion prior to 30 June 2012. On current schedules, the project is expected to start capturing CO2 around the end of 2012. Participants involved: The Callide Oxyfuel Project is a joint venture between CS Energy, the Australian Coal Association, Xstrata Coal, Schlumberger, and Japanese participants, J-POWER, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and IHI Corporation. The project was awarded $50 million from the Australian Government under the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund. The Callide Oxyfuel Project has also received financial support from the Queensland and Japanese governments and technical support from JCOAL. Challenges and issues it had to overcome: So far the major challenge for Stage 1 has been proving the oxyfuel technology at scale. In addition, the lack of access to a suitable geological storage in Queensland has significantly impacted the project’s ability to move to Stage 2. While the decision earlier this year by the Queensland Government to grant CTSCo a GHG tenement permit will ameliorate this situation, it is unlikely that the logistics and infrastructure will be in place to conduct suitable storage during the project’s planned demonstration schedule. Therefore the projects intention to have an end to end project will not be realised within the projects timeframe. The project continues to work with Stakeholders to arrive at a workable solution
Lessons learnt from Government perspective There is a need to identify and address expected operational shortfalls for first-of-a-kind projects. Mitigation measures for overcoming these operational shortfalls will be important, particularly under a carbon price scenario.