Future without Carbon Capture and Storage

  Megha Priyadarshini,  Tarannum Tarar,  P.S Prashanthi

Carbon sequestration: capture and secure storage of carbon that would otherwise be emitted or remain in the atmosphere. Carbon sources: For this article, we are worried with large stationary sources of CO2, e.g. fossil fueled power plants, cement manufacturing, ammonia production, industrial boilers, refineries, natural gas wells. Carbon capture: The separation and entrapment of CO2 from large stationary sources. CO2 storage: The injection of CO2 into geologic or oceanic reservoirs for timescales of centuries or longer. CO2 capture and storage CO2 is emitted basically from the burning of fossil fuels, both in large combustion units such as those used for electric power generation and in smaller, distributed sources such as automobile engines and furnaces used in residential and commercial buildings. CO2 emissions also result from some industrial resource extraction processes, as well as from the burning of forests during land clearance. CCS would most likely be applied to large point sources of CO2, such as power plants or large industrial processes. Some of these sources could supply decarbonized fuel such as hydrogen to the transportation, industrial and building sectors, and thus reduce emissions from those distributed sources. CCS involves the use of technology, primarily to collect and concentrate the CO2 produced industries and energy related sources, transport it to a suitable storage location, and then store it away from the atmosphere for a long period of time. CCS would thus allow fossil fuels to be used with low emissions of greenhouse gases. Application of CCS to biomass energy sources could result in the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere (often referred to as ‘negative emissions’) by capturing and storing the atmospheric CO2 taken up by the biomass, provided the biomass is not harvested at an unsustainable rate.

Keywords- Carbon Capture and Storage

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602038
Page Number(s) - 218-220
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | April 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Megha Priyadarshini,  Tarannum Tarar,  P.S Prashanthi,   "Future without Carbon Capture and Storage", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.218-220, April 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602038.pdf