Dr George Marsh, Technical and Economic Advisor, Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, Department for Energy and Climate Change, UK
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) consists of a set of well established technologies draw from the power engineering, chemical process and oil & gas industries, which has the potential to enable continued use of fossil fuels in a low carbon economy. At present most attention is focused on the application of CCS to electricity generation, but it could also be deployed on other large point sources of CO2 including oil refineries, steel and cement manufacture and up-stream oil and gas production.
The challenge with CCS is to successfully integrate, and in some cases scale-up, these existing technologies to work flexibly, reliably and safely within existing but evolving supply systems, for example an electricity supply system that will also contain a substantial amount of renewable energy and nuclear power.
This presentation will review the basic methods currently being developed to capture, transport and store CO2, highlight some of the technical and financial developments that are needed to make CCS a commercially viable low carbon option, and the role of the UK’s demonstration programme in addressing these challenges.
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