LECTURE 8: Carbon Capture & Storage

Before You Watch

Reflect on your previous knowledge of carbon capture and storage. Jot notes about how familiar you are with carbon capture strategies and technologies. Perhaps your thoughts on why is it that carbon capture and storage is still not widely deployed.

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Key Takeaways

Check your understanding with these questions:

• Question 1: Is it possible to remove carbon dioxide already released to the atmosphere? How?
• Question 2: Is it possible to remove carbon dioxide that has already been adsorbed in the oceans? How?
• Question 3: What is the difference between carbon capture strategy and technology?
• Question 4: What is a key parameter in the selection of carbon capture system (strategy + technology)?
• Question 5: What types of geological formations can be used to store carbon dioxide?
• Question 6: Carbon dioxide can be used in enhanced oil recovery and enhanced coal bed methane recovery, what is the economic advantage of doing so? what is the environmental disadvantage of this type of carbon dioxide utilization?
• Question 7: What economic incentives are there for carbon capture, storage and utilization?