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A Phased Approach to Designing a Hypothetical Pipeline Network for CO2 Transport During Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1874363· OSTI ID:1874363
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  1. Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States); Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States). Energy & Environmental Research Center
  2. Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States)
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Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) continue to receive considerable attention as a way to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Substantial capital investment will be required to capture, compress, and transport the CO2 to storage targets if the concept is deployed on a large scale. Unfortunately, many of the large CO2 sources are not located near appropriate geologic storage areas, and it is likely that a pipeline network would be needed to transport the CO2 from the sources to the storage sinks. It is highly unlikely that a pipeline network would be built quickly; rather, it is more likely that a network would be built in stages or phases. An effort was undertaken by the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership to estimate how a hypothetical CO2 pipeline network might be built out in the PCOR Partnership region, over what time frame it might be built, and how much it might cost. It was found that a pipeline network of trunk lines roughly 6700 mi in total length could transport sufficient quantities of CO2 such that the International Energy Agency (IEA) BLUE Map scenario could be met for the PCOR Partnership region by 2050. The IEA BLUE Map scenario represents a reduction in CO2 emissions of 50% over 2005 levels by 2050. For the PCOR Partnership, this would be 444.7 Mtons/yr. The overall reduction for the PCOR Partnership region using this approach would be about 612.4 Mtons/yr by 2050.

Research Organization:
Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States). Energy & Environmental Research Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
DOE Contract Number:
FC26-05NT42592
OSTI ID:
1874363
Report Number(s):
DOE-EERC-42592-31; 2013-EERC-03-11
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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