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Technology roadmap: carbon capture and storage in industrial applications.

Author(s) : IEA, OECD, UNIDO

Type of monograph: Booklet

Summary

This roadmap shows that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a key cost-effective option for reducing CO2 emissions in large energy-intensive industries. In fact, much of the promising short-term potential for CCS globally lies not in the power sector but in industrial activities that currently vent highly pure streams of CO2. These activities include hydrogen production for fertilisers or fuel, bioethanol production and natural gas sweetening. Most studies on the potential application of CCS have focused on the power sector, however, even though all existing operational large-scale demonstrations of CCS are in industrial applications. In the longer-term, half of the global economic deployment for CCS by 2050 is shown to be in industrial applications. In certain sectors CCS is shown to be of particular relevance in developing countries, where it could be a highly cost-competitive emissions abatement option, even in the near term.

Details

  • Original title: Technology roadmap: carbon capture and storage in industrial applications.
  • Record ID : 30007166
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment, General information
  • Publication: Iea (international energy agency) - France/France
  • Publication date: 2011

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