NextDecade advances Texas CCS efforts
Apr 14, 2021 2:35:pm
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by: Daniel Graeber
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NextDecade advances Texas CCS efforts
US LNG company NextDecade said April 14 it had signed an engineering agreement with a division of Mitsubishi to develop post-combustion carbon capture technology for the Rio Grande LNG export facility in Texas.
NextDecade signed an engineering services agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to utilise a proprietary process developed by the Japanese company that uses a specialised solvent to help facilitate CO
2 recovery.
“This will be the world’s first application of post-combustion capture for LNG, and we expect this initiative will contribute to realising carbon neutrality in the years ahead,” Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, the head of the Japanese division, said.
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is either stored permanently underground (carbon storage) or it is used for a range of industrial applications (carbon utilization), such as CO2-derived fuels or building materials. CCUS technologies are likely to play a key role in the fight against climate change, with the UN estimating that CCUS could mitigate between 1.5 and 6.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents per year by 2050.
The world has already taken its steps along this pathway. Over the last decade, the deployment of carbon capture technology has been steadily scaling up, with global carbon capture capacity reaching 40 million tonnes in 2020. Plans for more than 30 new CCUS facilities have been announced since 2017. If all these projects proceeded, global capture capacity would tripl
The role of CCS in reducing emissions remains unclear [GasTransitions]
Mar 1, 2021 7:35:am
Summary Successful carbon capture and storage projects continue to be far and few between. Although many scientists continue to believe in CCS and there are some promising projects starting up in heavy industry, CCS prospects in the power sector look dim. The CCS debate continues – the outcome remains uncertain. [Gas Transitions Volume 2, Issue 2]
by: Karel Beckman
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The role of CCS in reducing emissions remains unclear [GasTransitions]
A group of engineers and geologists issued a statement in January saying that carbon capture and storage is “vital to meeting climate goals.” Their initiative came in response to a report from Friends of the Earth Scotland, prepared by Samira Garcia Freites and Christopher Jones of the Tyndall Manchester Climate Change Research unit, which came out on 8 January. The Tyndall report calls on the UK government not
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