The Need for and Path to Harmonized Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Assessment for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization

Sick, Volker; Armstrong, Katy; Cooney, Gregory; Cremonese, Lorenzo; Eggleston, Alexandra; Faber, Grant; Hackett, Gregory; Kätelhön, Arne; Keoleian, Greg; Marano, John; Marriott, Joseph; McCord, Stephen; Miller, Shelie A.; Mutchek, Michele; Olfe-Kräutlein, Barbara; Ravikumar, Dwarakanath; Roper, Louise Kjellerup; Schaidle, Joshua A.; Skone, Timothy; Smith, Lorraine; Strunge, Till; Styring, Peter; Tao, Ling; Völker, Simon; Zimmermann, Arno

doi:10.1002/ente.201901034

Title: The Need for and Path to Harmonized Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Assessment for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization

Journal Article · 22 October 2019 · Energy Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201901034 · OSTI ID:1579634

^[1]; Armstrong, Katy ^[2]; Cooney, Gregory ^[3]; Cremonese, Lorenzo ^[4]; Eggleston, Alexandra ^[3]; Faber, Grant ^[1]; Hackett, Gregory ^[3]; Kätelhön, Arne ^[5]; Keoleian, Greg ^[1]; Marano, John ^[6]; Marriott, Joseph ^[3]; McCord, Stephen ^[2]; Miller, Shelie A. ^[1]; Mutchek, Michele ^[3]; Olfe-Kräutlein, Barbara ^[4]; Ravikumar, Dwarakanath ^[1]; Roper, Louise Kjellerup ^[7];

^[8]; Skone, Timothy ^[3]; Smith, Lorraine ^[7] more »

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Inst. for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (Germany)
RWTH Aachen, Aachen (Germany)
JM Energy Consulting, Gibsonia, PA (United States)
Volans, London (United Kingdom)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
TU Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

The use of carbon dioxide as a feedstock for a broad range of products can help mitigate the effects of climate change through long‐term removal of carbon or as part of a circular carbon economy. Research on capture and conversion technologies has intensified in recent years, and the interest in deploying these technologies is growing fast. However, sound understanding of the environmental and economic impacts of these technologies is required to drive fast deployment and avoid unintended consequences. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) and techno‐economic assessments (TEAs) are useful tools to quantify environmental and economic metrics; however, these tools can be very flexible in how they are applied, with the potential to produce significantly different results depending on how the boundaries and assumptions are defined. Built on ISO standards for generic LCAs, several guidance documents have emerged recently from the Global CO ₂ Initiative, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that further define assessment specifications for carbon capture and utilization. Overall agreement in the approaches is noted with differences largely based on the intended use cases. However, further guidance is needed for assessments of early‐stage technologies, reporting details, and reporting for policymakers and nontechnical decision‐makers.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1579634

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1573849

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5100-74888; MainId:23320; UUID:e1b838ac-fcd7-e911-9c26-ac162d87dfe5; MainAdminID:11796

Journal Information:: Energy Technology, Vol. 8, Issue 11; ISSN 2194-4288

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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