Hc 692 Future Of Carbon Capture And Storage In The Uk

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Carbon dioxide
ISBN : 9780215091024

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HC 692 - Future of Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee Pdf

Meeting the UK's climate change commitments will be challenging if we do not apply carbon capture and storage (CCS) to new gas-fired power stations and to our energy intensive industries. Building the transport and storage infrastructure needed for CCS requires large upfront investments, but costs of later projects are expected to fall rapidly once this primary infrastructure is in place. Without CCS it may be necessary to find large and potentially more expensive carbon savings to meet the legally binding targets set out in the Climate Change Act as well as the more recent challenging ambitions set out at the Paris climate summit. The UK Government first promised support for CCS in 2007, and in 2012 launched a commercialisation 'competition', with the aim to see CCS projects developed before 2020. Up to £1 billion pounds was to be made available in capital funding, with additional operational support available through guaranteed price contracts - known as Contracts for Difference (CfDs) - to support the initial stages of commercialisation

Author : Clair Gough,Patricia Thornley,Sarah Mander,Naomi Vaughan,Amanda Lea-Langton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119237631

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Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) by Clair Gough,Patricia Thornley,Sarah Mander,Naomi Vaughan,Amanda Lea-Langton Pdf

An essential resource for understanding the potential role for biomass energy with carbon capture and storage in addressing climate change Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) offers a comprehensive review of the characteristics of BECCS technologies in relation to its various applications. The authors — a team of expert professionals — bring together in one volume the technical, scientific, social, economic and governance issues relating to the potential deployment of BECCS as a key approach to climate change mitigation. The text contains information on the current and future opportunities and constraints for biomass energy, explores the technologies involved in BECCS systems and the performance characteristics of a variety of technical systems. In addition, the text includes an examination of the role of BECCS in climate change mitigation, carbon accounting across the supply chain and policy frameworks. The authors also offer a review of the social and ethical aspects as well as the costs and economics of BECCS. This important text: Reveals the role BECCS could play in the transition to a low-carbon economy Discusses the wide variety of technical and non-technical constraints of BECCS Presents the basics of biomass energy systems Reviews the technical and engineering issues pertinent to BECCS Explores the societal implications of BECCS systems Written for academics and research professionals, Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) brings together in one volume the issues surrounding BECCS in an accessible and authoritative manner.

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0102975477

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Carbon capture and storage by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

This report discusses the competition, cancelled in October 2011, to design, construct and operate the UK's first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage project. The competition was launched in 2007 by the then Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. It was cancelled four years later by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on the grounds of protecting value for money and because the project could not be funded within the £1 billion budget agreed at the 2010 Spending Review. It concludes that the competition had been a high risk and challenging undertaking launched with insufficient planning and recognition of the commercial risks. However, the results of engineering and design studies completed by bidders, upon which the Government spent £40 million (63 per cent of the £64 million it spent in total on the competition), may help to reduce the costs of future carbon capture and storage projects. The cost of the competition was relatively small compared to the investment required to develop CCS at commercial scale and the competition has increased the Department's experience in this field and understanding of project costs. DECC now plans to pursue other carbon capture and storage projects using the £1 billion capital fund. The NAO has made recommendations for the Department to address in its future programme

Author : Ronald E. Hester,Roy M. Harrison
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847559173

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Carbon Capture by Ronald E. Hester,Roy M. Harrison Pdf

Reports on methods of capturing and storing CO2 from major sources to reduce the levels emitted to the atmosphere by human activities.

Author : Nils Markusson,Simon Shackley,Benjamin Evar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136311246

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The Social Dynamics of Carbon Capture and Storage by Nils Markusson,Simon Shackley,Benjamin Evar Pdf

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change. Great hopes are being pinned on this new technology but it is also facing growing scepticism and criticism. This book is the first to bring together the full range of social and policy issues surrounding CCS shedding new light on this potentially vital technology and its future. The book covers many crucial topics including the roles and positions that different publics, NGOs, industry, political parties and media are taking up; the way CCS is organised, supported and regulated; how CCS is being debated and judged; how innovation, demonstration and learning are occurring and being conceptualised and promoted; and the role of CCS in the transition to a low carbon energy future. The authors draw on a variety of approaches, concepts, methods and themes and provide a new understanding of innovation in the energy and climate change fields. It tackles the many issues in a way that speaks to those concerned not only to understand these developments, but to those who are involved in the scientific and technological work itself, as well as those charged with evaluating and making decisions relevant to the future of the technology.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Carbon dioxide mitigation
ISBN : 0215521986

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Carbon Capture and Storage by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

Author : Malti Goel,M. Sudhakar,R.V. Shahi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780429607998

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Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization by Malti Goel,M. Sudhakar,R.V. Shahi Pdf

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable. It is of particular importance to coal-based economies. This book deals at length with the various aspects of carbon dioxide capture, its utilization and takes a closer look at the earth processes in carbon dioxide storage. It discusses potential of Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization as innovative energy technology towards a sustainable energy future. Various techniques of carbon dioxide recovery from power plants by physical, chemical, and biological means as well as challenges and prospects in biomimetic carbon sequestration are described. Carbon fixation potential in coal mines and in saline aquifers is also discussed. Please note: This volume is Co-published with The Energy and Resources Institute Press, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0215027353

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Meeting UK Energy and Climate Needs by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee Pdf

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions around the world continue to grow. The UK is struggling to meet its targets of reducing CO2 emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010, and 60 per cent by 2050, while growing demand in countries such as India and China is expected to fuel a dramatic increase in global emissions in the future. Concern over security of energy supply is also a major feature of the current debate about energy policy. This reports finds significant scope for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to contribute to both reducing emissions and enhancing future security of energy supply. Costs of CCS are comparable to other low carbon approaches, with potential to reduce those costs substantially with technological development and economies of scale. Enhanced oil recovery, extending the life of the North Sea oil fields, could also offset the cost of CCS. Geological storage is relatively safe and secure, though the Government should clarify whether storage under the seabed is permissible under international law. Whilst UK industry is poised to make substantial investments in CCS and full scale demonstration projects, the Government needs to display much greater urgency and commitment, by increasing investment in research, development and demonstration, and by setting up a long-term incentive framework.

Author : Marc Hudson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040038611

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the United Kingdom by Marc Hudson Pdf

This book is a concise but comprehensive guide to the history, present and possible futures of carbon capture and storage policy and action in the United Kingdom (UK). There have been multiple failed starts, promises and “last chances” for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe, North America, China and Australia, but thus far it has repeatedly collided with the political and economic realities that the technology is too expensive and complicated to gain and keep policymakers’ support. However, in the UK that might be changing, with explicit government support for CCS to help decarbonise industry. Set within the broader context of global interest in CCS, this book first outlines the technologies involved in the types of capture technology, transport options and storage options in the UK. It then briefly introduces an overarching policy analysis framework (John Kingdon’s multiple streams approach) and uses it to give an account of the long history of CCS interest and efforts in three chapters covering the 1970s to 2002, 2003 to 2015 and 2016 to the present day. Marc Hudson focusses on the various arguments made for the introduction of CCS, and the slowly shifting coalitions of actors who make those arguments, while contrasting these with the perspectives of those opposed to CCS. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers researching and working in the field, as well as the related areas of energy policy, energy transitions and climate change.

Author : Clair Gough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351953412

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Carbon Capture and its Storage by Clair Gough Pdf

Climate change is arguably the most important environmental issue that the world currently faces. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) offers the possibility of significant reductions in the volume of CO2 released into the atmosphere in the near to medium term. As a fairly new technology that has not been widely adopted, there remain some uncertainties related to both viability and desirability. This book discusses the key issues with regard to technical and legal feasibility, economic viability and public and stakeholder perceptions. It also provides recommendations for policy and future research.

Author : Mai Bui,Graeme Douglas Puxty,Matteo Gazzani,Salman Masoudi Soltani,Carlos Pozo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782889715855

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The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies in a Net-Zero Carbon Future by Mai Bui,Graeme Douglas Puxty,Matteo Gazzani,Salman Masoudi Soltani,Carlos Pozo Pdf

Author : James R. Meadowcroft,Oluf Langhelle
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849802222

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Caching the Carbon by James R. Meadowcroft,Oluf Langhelle Pdf

Over the past decade carbon capture and storage (CCS) has increasingly come to the fore as a possible option to manage carbon dioxide emissions that are currently contributing to human induced climate change. This book is concerned with the politics of CCS. The authors examine the way CCS has been brought into the political realm, the different interpretations of the significance of this emerging technology, and the policy challenges government and international institutions face with respect to its development, deployment and regulation. The book includes case studies of engagement with CCS in a number of developed countries as well as more thematically focused analysis.

Author : Ian Havercroft,Richard Macrory,Richard Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509909612

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Carbon Capture and Storage by Ian Havercroft,Richard Macrory,Richard Stewart Pdf

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly viewed as one of the most significant ways of dealing with greenhouse gas emissions. Critical to realising its potential will be the design of effective legal regimes at national and international level that can handle the challenges raised but without stifling a new technology of potential great public benefit. These include: long-term liability for storage; regulation of transport; the treatment of stored carbon under emissions trading regimes; issues of property ownership; and, increasingly, the sensitivities of handling the public engagement and perception. Following its publication in 2011, Carbon Capture and Storage quickly became required reading for all those interested in, or engaged by, the need to implement regulatory approaches to CCS. The intervening years have seen significant developments globally. Earlier legislative models are now in force, providing important lessons for future legal design. Despite these developments, the growth of the technology has been slower in some jurisdictions than others. This timely new edition will update and critically assess these updates and provide context for the development of CCS in 2018 and beyond.

Author : Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa,Carolina Arlota
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323853705

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Carbon Capture and Storage in International Energy Policy and Law by Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa,Carolina Arlota Pdf

Carbon Capture and Storage in International Energy Policy and Law identifies the main contemporary regulatory requirements, challenges and opportunities involving CCS from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It draws on the scholarship of renowned researchers across the fields of international energy law and policy to address CCS regulation and its impact on climate change, sustainable development, and related consequences for energy transition. In this vein, the book aims to address issues related to energy, energy justice and climate changes (including CCS technology). Contributors discuss the main challenges and advantages concerning international energy and the forms CCS may contribute to energy security, climate change, adaptation and mitigation of GHG emissions and sustainable development. In this light, the book discusses CCS as a bridge that integrates international energy, climate change and sustainable development. Covers contemporary regulatory command-and-control and market incentive instruments across the local, regional and/or international spheres in-depth and in comparison Reviews deregulatory impacts, modern financing of CCS, liability of the involved parties, and pertinent environmental issues Addresses sociotechnical aspects of CCS and its specific impact on the international arena Discusses the interplay of carbon capture and storage, renewables and the overall energy transition, current pathways to sustainable development

Author : Stephen A. Rackley
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128120422

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Carbon Capture and Storage by Stephen A. Rackley Pdf

Carbon Capture and Storage, Second Edition, provides a thorough, non-specialist introduction to technologies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels during power generation and other energy-intensive industrial processes, such as steelmaking. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides detailed coverage of key carbon dioxide capture methods along with an examination of the most promising techniques for carbon storage. The book opens with an introductory section that provides background regarding the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an overview of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, and a primer in the fundamentals of power generation. The next chapters focus on key carbon capture technologies, including absorption, adsorption, and membrane-based systems, addressing their applications in both the power and non-power sectors. New for the second edition, a dedicated section on geological storage of carbon dioxide follows, with chapters addressing the relevant features, events, and processes (FEP) associated with this scenario. Non-geological storage methods such as ocean storage and storage in terrestrial ecosystems are the subject of the final group of chapters. A chapter on carbon dioxide transportation is also included. This extensively revised and expanded second edition will be a valuable resource for power plant engineers, chemical engineers, geological engineers, environmental engineers, and industrial engineers seeking a concise, yet authoritative one-volume overview of this field. Researchers, consultants, and policy makers entering this discipline also will benefit from this reference. Provides all-inclusive and authoritative coverage of the major technologies under consideration for carbon capture and storage Presents information in an approachable format, for those with a scientific or engineering background, as well as non-specialists Includes a new Part III dedicated to geological storage of carbon dioxide, covering this topic in much more depth (9 chapters compared to 1 in the first edition) Features revisions and updates to all chapters Includes new sections or expanded content on: chemical looping/calcium looping; life-cycle GHG assessment of CCS technologies; non-power industries (e.g. including pulp/paper alongside ones already covered); carbon negative technologies (e.g. BECCS); gas-fired power plants; biomass and waste co-firing; and hydrate-based capture