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

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

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Article

Alcalde, Juan^1,2  Heinemann, Niklas³  Mabon, Leslie⁴  Worden, Richard H.⁵  de Coninck, Heleen⁶  Robertson, Hazel⁷  Maver, Marko⁸  Ghanbari, Saeed⁹  Swennenhuis, Floris⁶  Mann, Indira¹⁰  Walker, Tiana⁷  Gomersal, Sam⁷  Bond, Clare E.¹  Allen, Michael J.⁵  Haszeldine, R. Stuart³  James, Alan⁷  Mackay, Eric J.⁹  Brownsort, Peter A.¹⁰  Faulkner, Daniel R.⁵  Murphy, Steve⁷ 

[1] Univ Aberdeen, Dept Geol & Petr Geol, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, Scotland

[2] CSIC, Inst Earth Sci Jaume Almera ICTJA, C Lluis Sole & Sabaris S-N, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

[3] Univ Edinburgh, Grant Inst, Sch Geosci, West Main Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Midlothian, Scotland

[4] Robert Gordon Univ, Sch Appl Social Studies, Garthdee Rd, Aberdeen AB10 7QG, Scotland

[5] Univ Liverpool, Dept Earth Ocean & Ecol Sci, 4 Brownlow St, Liverpool L69 3GP, Merseyside, England

[6] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Fac Sci, Inst Water & Wetland Res, Dept Environm Sci, Heyendaalseweg 135, NL-6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands

[7] Pale Blue Dot Energy, Bratherns Ecobusiness Pk, Banchory AB 31 4BW, Kincardine, Scotland

[8] Bellona Europa, Rue Egmont 15, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

[9] Heriot Watt Univ, Inst Petr Engn, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Midlothian, Scotland

[10] Univ Edinburgh, Sch GeoSci, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage, Edinburgh Ctr Carbon Innovat,High Sch Yards, Infirm St, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, Midlothian, Scotland

关键词: Carbon capture and storage;    Infrastructure re-use;    Stakeholder engagement;    Just transition;    Full-chain CCS;    Cost-reduction;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.087

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

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 reuse 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 reuse 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. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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