Chapter
Oxy-Fuel Combustion Capture
Advantages and Disadvantages
The In Salah and Weyburn Projects
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages and Disadvantages
GEOLOGICAL STORAGE CAPACITY FOR CO2
IN THE UNITED STATES
Advantages and Disadvantages
Sequestering Under the Seabed
Advantages and Disadvantages
CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Chapter 2:
CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION AT THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
EPA Proposed Rule Limiting CO2 Emissions from Power Plants
CCS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION: OVERALL GOALS
RECOVERY ACT FUNDING FOR CCS PROJECTS:
A LYNCHPIN FOR SUCCESS?
Clean Coal Power Initiative
Reasons for Withdrawal from the CCPI Program
Southern Company—Plant Barry 160 MW Project
Basin Electric Power—Antelope Valley 120 MW Project
American Electric Power—Mountaineer 235 MW Project
Reshuffling of Funding for CCPI
Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects
FutureGen—A Special Case?
Challenges to FutureGen—A Similar Path for Other Demonstration Projects?
GEOLOGIC SEQUESTRATION/STORAGE: DOE RD&D FOR THE LAST STEP IN CCS
Brief History of DOE Geological Sequestration/Storage Activities
Current Status and Challenges to Carbon Sequestration/Storage
Chapter 3:
FEDERAL EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE COST OF CAPTURING AND STORING
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON CAPTURE
AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
Transporting Carbon Dioxide
Status of CCS Technology Development
Federal Policy to Demonstrate Current CCS Technology and Promote Its Future Technological Development
The Department of Energy’s CCS Programs
The Cost of Producing Electricity Using CCS Technology
Cost Differentials Associated with Current CCS Technology
Reducing Cost Differentials
How Much New Capacity Using CCS Technology Must Be Built to Reduce the Cost of Generating Electricity
in a CCS-Equipped Plant?
How Much Construction of New Electricity-Generating Capacity Is Projected to Occur in the Near Future?
Shift DOE’s Focus from Demonstration Projects to Research and Development
Adopt Policies That Encourage Private Investment in CCS-Equipped Plants
Reduce or Eliminate DOE’s Support for CCS
APPENDIX:
DEVELOPING A COMMON BASIS FOR COMPARING
ENGINEERING COST ESTIMATES