Slide Show: What Does Carbon Capture and Storage Look Like?
From the North Sea to Texas, this slide show looks at existing technology to take the carbon dioxide out of coal burning and other fossil fuel use
Slide Show: What Does Carbon Capture and Storage Look Like?
- INDUSTRIAL CCS: Carbon capture and storage technology could also be applied to other large industrial sources of carbon dioxide: cement- and steelmaking, or aluminum smelting. StatoilHydro plans to build a test facility at its Mongstad refinery in Norway to examine how CCS might be applied to other industries... Harald M. Valderhaug / StatoilHydro
- POWER PLANT: Duke Energy is building a new power plant in Edwardsport, Ind., that will gasify coal before burning, so-called integrated gasification combined cycle technology or IGCC. When coal is gasified in this way, carbon dioxide can be stripped out during the gasification process... Tom Wolfe / Duke Energy
- WELLHEAD: All that marks the surface above a pilot carbon dioxide storage facility south of Dayton, Tex., is a wellhead. Even when geologists attempted to pump the CO 2 back out of the ground using natural-gas techniques, it was impossible to extract it... Courtesy of Susan Hovorka, University of Texas at Austin
- CO2 POOL: The liquefied carbon dioxide has slowly spread through the Utsira sandstone formation in the Sleipner natural gas field and has stayed in place over the past 13 years. More than 10 million metric tons of CO 2 are now stored in the rocks rather than vented into the atmosphere, slowly spreading to cover 1.15 square miles (three square kilometers) as more CO 2 is pumped down as pictured here via seismic imaging... Courtesy of StatoilHydro
- CO2 STORAGE: Captured carbon dioxide can be pumped deep underground for permanent storage, as has been done with CO 2 extracted from natural gas at the Sleipner field in the North Sea. The artist's rendering here depicts the extraction well for the natural gas as well as the injection pipe for CO 2 ... Alligator film / BUG / StatoilHydro
- CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: The new boiler at the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in Spremberg, Germany, captures 95 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from its coal burning—a small demonstration of one option for capturing carbon and compressing it for transportation by pipeline or truck to a place where it can be buried or used... Courtesy of Vattenfall