The Capture and Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

bullet1 The Sequestration Options of Carbon Dioxide
bullet2 Transportation

bullet3 Pipeline

This is an existing technology that is used for the CO2 enhanced oil recovery. As CO2 is easily handled and is large inert, it can be transported at high pressures through pipelines. There is at present about 3,000 km of pipelines already in existance, mainly in North America.


It already has already internationally recognised standards for the design, construction and monitoring of the pipelines.


The transportation costs of piping the CO2, would be typically cheaper than it to tranmit the equivalent amount of electricity. This means that it would be cheaper to site the power station close to the elctricity demand, rather than next to the disposal site of the CO2.


Further work needs to be carried out into the conditions that may or may not cause CO2-induced corrosion.


Other issues that required some study will be the rights of way, that is the planning procedures and gaining of access to the land that the pipeline would be lay on or under. Much of this could be similar to those currently used for natural gas pipelines, but some additional measures may have to be taken. Also in order for this to be possible there has to a general public acceptance of this method of transportation of the CO2. So some work should be carried out in finding out if the public would accept this method and the education of the public in the issues involved with pipeline transportation.