Infrastructure to enable deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage in the United States.

ABSTRACT: In February 2018, the United States enacted significant financial incentives for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) that will make capture from the lowest-capture-cost sources economically viable. The largest existing low-capture-cost opportunity is from ethanol fermentation at biorefineries in the Midwest. An impediment to deployment of carbon capture at ethanol biorefineries is that most are not close to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) fields or other suitable geological formations in which the carbon dioxide could be stored. Therefore, we analyze the viability of a pipeline network to transport carbon dioxide from Midwest ethanol biorefineries to the Permian Basin in Texas, which has the greatest current carbon dioxide demand for EOR and large potential for expansion. We estima

SUBMITTER: Edwards RWJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156648 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature