Future CCS options

CCS is likely to be used in a wide range of industrial applications.

We will look at five ways in which industrial processes might be made less carbon intensive through CCS.

All five options store CO₂ onshore or offshore in a saline aquifer or depleted gas field:

• Post-combustion coal fired power plant
• Precombustion integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal fired power plant
• Refinery, steel, ammonia or cement plant
• Removal of CO₂ from natural gas
• Biomass power plant

Onshore or offshore CO₂ stores are most likely in saline aquifers or depleted gas fields.
(Source: World Coal Institute.)

• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research
• Advanced seismic techniques
• CO₂ storage Sleipner
• Clean coal exploitation and unconventional gas

• BBC CCS Interview
  Dr Mike Stephenson (BGS)

• Ireland Study Report
• SACS Best Practice Manual
• Sequestration: the underground storage of carbon dioxide
• CO₂ storage capacity estimation: methodology and gaps
• IPCC special report
• Southern North Sea case study
• East Irish Sea case study