Acorn: Developing full-chain industrial carbon capture and storage in a resource- and infrastructure-rich hydrocarbon province

Autor: Juan Alcalde, Hazel Robertson, Indira Mann, M. J. Allen, Alan James, Floris Swennenhuis, Saeed Ghanbari, Daniel R. Faulkner, Steve Murphy, Leslie Mabon, Eric James Mackay, Heleen de Coninck, R. Stuart Haszeldine, Tiana Walker, Peter Brownsort, Sam Gomersal, Richard H. Worden, Niklas Heinemann, Marko Maver, Clare E. Bond
Přispěvatelé: European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Alcalde, Juan, Alcalde, Juan [0000-0001-9806-5600]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Cleaner Production, 233, 963-971
Journal of Cleaner Production, 233, pp. 963-971
Journal of Cleaner Production
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Alcalde, J, Heinemann, N, Mabon, L, Worden, R H, De Coninck, H, Robertson, H, Maver, M, Ghanbari, S, Swennenhuis, F, Mann, I, Walker, T, Gomersal, S, Bond, C E, Allen, M J, Haszeldine, R S, James, A, Mackay, E J, Brownsort, P A, Faulkner, D R & Murphy, S 2019, ' Acorn: Developing Full-chain Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage in a Resource-and Infrastructure-Rich Hydrocarbon Province ', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 233, pp. 963-971 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.087
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Popis: Research to date has identified cost and lack of support from stakeholders as two key barriers to the development of a carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) industry that is capable of effectively mitigating climate change. This paper responds to these challenges through systematic evaluation of the research and development process for the Acorn CCS project, a project designed to develop a scalable, full-chain CCS project on the north-east coast of the UK. Through assessment of Acorn's publicly-available outputs, we identify strategies which may help to enhance the viability of early-stage CCS projects. Initial capital costs can be minimised by infrastructure re-use, particularly pipelines, and by re-use of data describing the subsurface acquired during oil and gas exploration activity. Also, development of the project in separate stages of activity (e.g. different phases of infrastructure re-use and investment into new infrastructure) enables cost reduction for future build-out phases. Additionally, engagement of regional-level policy makers may help to build stakeholder support by situating CCS within regional decarbonisation narratives. We argue that these insights may be translated to general objectives for any CCS project sharing similar characteristics such as legacy infrastructure, industrial clusters and an involved stakeholder-base that is engaged with the fossil fuel industry. © 2019
The authors want to thank the entire ACT Acorn team for their support. The ACT Acorn project was funded by Accelerating CCS Technologies under Horizon 2020. Alcalde is currently funded by EIT Raw Materials – SIT4ME project (17024).
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