Disposal or long-term storage of CO 2 is the final step in carbon management. Although the cost of storage accounts only for a small portion of the total cost(2), it may well be the most difficult step in the chain of CCUS. The challenge will grow over time as the volumes that will need to be stored grow rapidly. At present the world is releasing about 8.5 Gt/year of carbon into the environment. As mentioned before, storage volumes over the century could easily amount to several thousand Gt of CO 2 . Many different technologies have been suggested for long-term CO 2 storage. These include...
Technologies for capturing CO 2 from gas streams have been used for many years to produce a pure stream of CO 2 from natural gas or industrial processing for use in food processing and chemical industries. Both post-combustion CO 2 capture and oxy-combustion technology provide retrofit options for existing coal-fired power plants. Methods currently used or developed for CO 2 separation include but not limited to: Physical and chemical solvents, particularly monoethanolamine (MEA) Various types of membranes Adsorption onto solids Cryogenic separation Other novel technologies include ionic...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 9:00am EDT to Monday, May 20, 2013, 6:00pm EDT
With the subsea and deepwater field experience gained over the last decade, great strides have been made in the understanding and management of production transport threats, also known as flow assurance. As growth in existing deepwater basins continues, efforts are now focused on flow assurance...Read more
SPT Group and the AIChE Upstream Engineering & Flow Assurance Forum (UE&FA) jointly invite you to SPT Group's annual User Group Meeting (UGM) in Houston on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 at the Norris Conference Center. We are looking forward to a great session in early 2013, and we hope...Read more
“Flow Assurance addresses the petroleum extraction process from the reservoir sandface to surface process facilities and beyond." Issues in this focus area include key aspects of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, oil field chemistry, and process instrumentation and control. It is important...Read more
