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Title: Jumpstarting commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage with ethylene production and enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf

Abstract

Abstract CO 2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology has yet to be widely deployed at a commercial scale despite multiple high‐profile demonstration projects. We suggest that developing a large‐scale, visible, and financially viable CCUS network could potentially overcome many barriers to deployment and jumpstart commercial‐scale CCUS. To date, substantial effort has focused on technology development to reduce the costs of CO 2 capture from coal‐fired power plants. Here, we propose that near‐term investment could focus on implementing CO 2 capture on facilities that produce high‐value chemicals/products. These facilities can absorb the expected impact of the marginal increase in the cost of production on the price of their product, due to the addition of CO 2 capture, more than coal‐fired power plants. A financially viable demonstration of a large‐scale CCUS network requires offsetting the costs of CO 2 capture by using the CO 2 as an input to the production of market‐viable products. We demonstrate this alternative development path with the example of an integrated CCUS system where CO 2 is captured from ethylene producers and used for enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf Coast region. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Independent Researcher, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  3. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1170620
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1400920
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-13-26975
Journal ID: ISSN 2152-3878
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2152-3878
Publisher:
Society of Chemical Industry, Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; Planetary Sciences; CO2; capture; CCUS; enhanced oil recovery; ethylene

Citation Formats

Middleton, Richard S., Levine, Jonathan S., Bielicki, Jeffrey M., Viswanathan, Hari S., Carey, J. William, and Stauffer, Philip H.. Jumpstarting commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage with ethylene production and enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1002/ghg.1490.
Middleton, Richard S., Levine, Jonathan S., Bielicki, Jeffrey M., Viswanathan, Hari S., Carey, J. William, & Stauffer, Philip H.. Jumpstarting commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage with ethylene production and enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1490
Middleton, Richard S., Levine, Jonathan S., Bielicki, Jeffrey M., Viswanathan, Hari S., Carey, J. William, and Stauffer, Philip H.. Mon . "Jumpstarting commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage with ethylene production and enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1490. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1170620.
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title = {Jumpstarting commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage with ethylene production and enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf},
author = {Middleton, Richard S. and Levine, Jonathan S. and Bielicki, Jeffrey M. and Viswanathan, Hari S. and Carey, J. William and Stauffer, Philip H.},
abstractNote = {Abstract CO 2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology has yet to be widely deployed at a commercial scale despite multiple high‐profile demonstration projects. We suggest that developing a large‐scale, visible, and financially viable CCUS network could potentially overcome many barriers to deployment and jumpstart commercial‐scale CCUS. To date, substantial effort has focused on technology development to reduce the costs of CO 2 capture from coal‐fired power plants. Here, we propose that near‐term investment could focus on implementing CO 2 capture on facilities that produce high‐value chemicals/products. These facilities can absorb the expected impact of the marginal increase in the cost of production on the price of their product, due to the addition of CO 2 capture, more than coal‐fired power plants. A financially viable demonstration of a large‐scale CCUS network requires offsetting the costs of CO 2 capture by using the CO 2 as an input to the production of market‐viable products. We demonstrate this alternative development path with the example of an integrated CCUS system where CO 2 is captured from ethylene producers and used for enhanced oil recovery in the US Gulf Coast region. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd},
doi = {10.1002/ghg.1490},
journal = {Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology},
number = 3,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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