Industrial CO₂ and Carbon Capture: Near-term Benefit, Long-term Necessity

Journal Article · 17 August 2017 · Energy Procedia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1892 · OSTI ID:1460659

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

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
2. Folia Water, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
3. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs

Industry emits approximately 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ each year (1 GTCO₂/yr) in the United States–one-third of US stationary emissions–and an even greater amount in industry-heavy China. We hypothesize that capturing industrial CO₂ offers a near-term pathway to jumpstart CO₂ capture and storage (CCS) and is a long-term necessity to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ in order to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. We then explore this proposition using several new CO₂ emissions and storage databases for the United States, as well as emerging research including the economics of industrial CO₂ capture. We refer to our new “sources of CO₂ that are not electricity” database as SCO₂NE.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States). US-China Advanced Coal Technology Consortium (CERC-ACTC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Clean Coal (FE-20); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• Grant/Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1460659
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--18-25871
• Journal Information: Energy Procedia, Journal Name: Energy Procedia Journal Issue: C Vol. 114; ISSN 1876-6102
• Publisher: ElsevierCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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