Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward

Mai Bui; Claire S. Adjiman; André Bardow; Edward J. Anthony; Andy Boston; Solomon Brown; Paul S. Fennell; Sabine Fuss; Amparo Galindo; Leigh A. Hackett; Jason P. Hallett; Howard J. Herzog; George Jackson; Jasmin Kemper; Samuel Krevor; Geoffrey C. Maitland; Michael Matuszewski; Ian S. Metcalfe; Camille Petit; Graeme Puxty; Jeffrey Reimer; David M. Reiner; Edward S. Rubin; Stuart A. Scott; Nilay Shah; Berend Smit; J. P. Martin Trusler; Paul Webley; Jennifer Wilcox; Niall Mac Dowell

doi:10.1039/C7EE02342A

Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward

Mai Bui,^ab Claire S. Adjiman,^bc André Bardow,

^d Edward J. Anthony,

^e Andy Boston,^f Solomon Brown,

^g Paul S. Fennell,^c Sabine Fuss,^h Amparo Galindo,^bc Leigh A. Hackett,ⁱ Jason P. Hallett,

^c Howard J. Herzog,

^j George Jackson,^c Jasmin Kemper,^k Samuel Krevor,^lm Geoffrey C. Maitland,

^cl Michael Matuszewski,ⁿ Ian S. Metcalfe,^o Camille Petit,^c Graeme Puxty,^p Jeffrey Reimer,^q David M. Reiner,^r Edward S. Rubin,

^s Stuart A. Scott,^t Nilay Shah,^bc Berend Smit,

^qu J. P. Martin Trusler,^cl Paul Webley,^vw Jennifer Wilcox^x and Niall Mac Dowell

*^ab

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^a Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 1NA, UK
E-mail: niall@imperial.ac.uk

^b Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK

^c Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK

^d Chair of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany

^e Centre for Combustion, Carbon Capture & Storage, Cranfield University, Bedford, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK

^f Red Vector Ltd., Barrow Upon Soar, Loughborough, Leics LE12 8JY, UK

^g Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK

^h Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, 10829 Berlin, Germany

ⁱ Industria Mundum AG, Zürich, Switzerland

^j Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

^k IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG), Pure Offices, Cheltenham Office Park, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK

^l Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK

^m Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK

ⁿ US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

^o School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK

^p CSIRO Energy, Mayfield West, New South Wales 2304, Australia

^q Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

^r Energy Policy Research Group, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

^s Engineering & Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA

^t University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK

^u Laboratory of Molecular Simulation, Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Valais Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1951 Sion, Switzerland

^v Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

^w The Peter Cook Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

^x Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA

Abstract

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is broadly recognised as having the potential to play a key role in meeting climate change targets, delivering low carbon heat and power, decarbonising industry and, more recently, its ability to facilitate the net removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere. However, despite this broad consensus and its technical maturity, CCS has not yet been deployed on a scale commensurate with the ambitions articulated a decade ago. Thus, in this paper we review the current state-of-the-art of CO₂ capture, transport, utilisation and storage from a multi-scale perspective, moving from the global to molecular scales. In light of the COP21 commitments to limit warming to less than 2 °C, we extend the remit of this study to include the key negative emissions technologies (NETs) of bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), and direct air capture (DAC). Cognisant of the non-technical barriers to deploying CCS, we reflect on recent experience from the UK's CCS commercialisation programme and consider the commercial and political barriers to the large-scale deployment of CCS. In all areas, we focus on identifying and clearly articulating the key research challenges that could usefully be addressed in the coming decade.

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