CO2 transport systems development: Status of three large European CCS demonstration projects with EEPR funding

This paper addresses technical and operational aspects pertaining to the transport of CO2. It deals with lessons learnt from the development of three large CCS demonstration projects: The UK-based Don Valley project, the Dutch ROAD project, and the Spanish Compostilla project. These projects were all selected by the European Commission in 2009...

Issues concerning the implementation of the CCS Directive in the Netherlands

In June 2009, the EU Directive on the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide entered into force. The European Member states are obliged to transpose the directive in their national legislations no later than 25 June 2011. The EU legislator has applied a regime of minimum harmonisation when drafting the CCS Directive, amongst others to achieve that...

Modelling of accidental releases from a high pressure CO2 pipelines

In the near future large quantities of CO2 will be transported over a large distance from Carbon dioxide Capture plants to onshore and off-shore underground Storage (CCS) sites. The risk assessments for the existing CO2 pipelines show distances to harmful threshold concentrations from 1 to 7.2 km. Such large differences in safety distances are...

Second Generation CO2 FEP Analysis: CASSIF - Carbon Storage Scenario Identification Framework

Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) is a promising contribution to reduce further increase of atmospheric CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. The CCS concept anticipates that large amounts of CO2 are going to be stored in the subsurface for the long term. Since CCS is a rather new technology, uncertainties related with the future evolution of...

Influence of membrane wetting on CO2 capture in microporous hollow fiber membrane contactors

In order to understand the membrane wetting in microporous hollow fiber membrane contactors, a theoretical model was developed by simulating CO 2 absorption in water under two extreme operating conditions of the non-wetted and wetted modes. The experimental studies on CO2 absorption using an aqueous DEA solution as the absorbent in a...