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

Middleton, Richard S.; Levine, Jonathan S.; Bielicki, Jeffrey M.; Viswanathan, Hari S.; Carey, J. William; Stauffer, Philip H.

doi:10.1002/ghg.1490

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

Journal Article · Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1490· OSTI ID:1170620

Middleton, Richard S. ^[1]; Levine, Jonathan S. ^[2]; Bielicki, Jeffrey M. ^[3]; Viswanathan, Hari S. ^[1]; Carey, J. William ^[1]; Stauffer, Philip H. ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Independent Researcher, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)

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

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1170620

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1400920

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-13-26975

Journal Information:: Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Issue 3; ISSN 2152-3878

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Language:: English

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