Environmental impacts of carbon capture, transport, and storage supply chains: Status and the way forward

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.104039
• Publication Date: 2024-01-02T17:37:10Z
• Authors: Johannes Burger; Julian Nöhl; Jan Seiler; Paolo Gabrielli; Pauline Oeuvray; Viola Becattini; Adriana Reyes-Lúa; Luca Riboldi; Giovanni Sansavini; André Bardow
• Keywords: Carbon fibers

Carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) enables the decarbonization of industrial emitters. CCTS is regarded as crucial in reaching net-zero emission targets but currently stands far behind required scale. deployment for point sources may be accelerated by chains relying on available technology, called pioneering supply chains. In particular, transporting CO2 standard containers can implemented without new transport infrastructure. Pioneering must not cause more emissions than they store to successfully avoid emissions. Using life cycle assessment, we show that emit less permanently, demonstrating already today 50 70% source GHG This evidence proves robust against uncertainties based scarce operational experience CCTS. Our environmental assessment shows increasing capture rate above assumed 90% a main lever increase avoidance 80%. Capturing causes large shares chain's global warming impact rely fossil fuels. Reducing intensity energy switching pipeline-based reduce other impacts compared analysis accelerate infrastructure scale-up while storing from sources.