U.S. DOE's R&D Program to Develop Infrastructure for Carbon Storage: Overview of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships and other R&D Field Projects

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• 作者：John Litynski ; Traci Rodosta ; Derek Vikara ; Rameshwar Srivastava
• 关键词：DOE ; NETL ; Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships ; CCUS Infrastructure ; ARRA Site Characterization ; ARRA Regional Carbon Sequestration Training
• 刊名：Energy Procedia
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：37
• 期：Complete
• 页码：6527-6543
• 全文大小：918 K

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The Carbon Storage Program being implemented by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is focused on developing technologies to capture, separate, and store CO₂ in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without adversely affecting energy use or hindering economic growth. NETL envisions having a technology portfolio of safe, cost-effective, greenhouse gas capture, transport, and storage technologies that will be available for commercial deployment. The Carbon Storage Program involves three key technology development elements: (1) Core Research and Development (R&D), (2) Infrastructure, and (3) Global Collaborations. The integration of these elements is addressing technological and marketplace challenges.

The Infrastructure element of DOE's Carbon Storage Program is focused on R&D initiatives to advance geologic CO₂ storage commercialization. The Infrastructure element highlights DOE's awareness of the importance of addressing CO₂ mitigation on a regional level to most effectively manage differences in geology, climate, population density, infrastructure, and socioeconomic development. This element includes a series of geologic CO₂ storage field tests through the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Initiative, as well as small-scale geologic CO₂ storage field testing efforts used to augment and build on the RCSP field test accomplishments. The Infrastructure element also includes crosscutting projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that complement the existing Carbon Storage Program's efforts to develop carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) infrastructure in the United States. These ARRA-supported efforts include the establishment of seven CCUS training centers and nine geologic site characterization projects throughout the United States.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage and other clean coal technologies can play a critical role in mitigating CO₂ emissions while supporting U.S. energy security. DOE's Carbon Storage Program has positioned the United States on a path toward ensuring that these enabling technologies will be available to effect broad CCUS deployment. NETL is helping to promote widespread CCUS deployment through the Carbon Storage Program's Infrastructure element, which to date has: (1) safely and efficiently injected and stored close to more than three million metric tons of CO₂ across nearly 22 active or completed field projects; (2) generated lessons learned from those field projects and documented them in best-practices manuals; (3) refined national CO₂ storage assessments through characterization field projects; and (4) trained nearly 3,000 students through the Regional Carbon Sequestration Training Centers. Even though NETL's Carbon Storage R&D Program is being implemented through several different initiatives, it should be viewed as an integrated whole, with many of the goals and objectives transitioning from one initiative to the next.