Introduction to carbon capture and storage
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a proven technology currently deployed in 30 facilities worldwide with a total capture capacity of over 40 million tons of CO2 per year. Before this book gets into the technical details, some background is provided here on why CCS is being deployed to mitigate climate change. The global targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction are ambitious, and the scale to which CO2 emissions need to be abated is no small undertaking; annual emissions are currently 40 billion tons of CO2 globally, and the target is net zero by 2050! Our current energy systems and associated networks are complex. CCS is going to be a key technology to allow us to transition from the carbon intensive energy sources and industries we currently rely on, but the role it will play and the scale to which it needs to be deployed will vary greatly by country, and even region. Since 2020, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of projects under development, with many countries seeing an increase in political support. So why deploy CCS?
TNO Identifier
990573
ISBN
9780323954990
Publisher
Elsevier
Source title
Deployment of carbon capture and storage: insights, case studies, and key learnings
Place of publication
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages
1-23
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