The progressive routes for carbon capture and sequestration

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• 作者：Sonil Nanda ; Sivamohan N. Reddy ; Sushanta K. Mitra and Janusz A. Kozinski
• 关键词：Adsorption ; biofuels ; carbon dioxide ; carbon sequestration ; flue gas ; oceanic carbon storage
• 刊名：Energy Science & Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：4
• 期：2
• 页码：99-122
• 全文大小：574K
• ISSN：2050-0505

文摘

The global warming is directly related to the increased greenhouse gas emissions from both natural and anthropogenic origins. There has been a drastic rise in the concentration of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases since the industrial revolution primarily due to the intensifying consumption of fossil fuels. With the need to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate global warming certain strategies relating to carbon capturing and sequestration are indispensable. This paper comprehensively describes several physicochemical, biological and geological routes for carbon capture and sequestration. The trend of the increase in greenhouse gases over the years is illustrated along with the global statistics for fossil fuels usage and biofuels production. The physicochemical carbon capturing technologies discussed include absorption, adsorption, membrane separation and cryogenic distillation. The algal and bacterial systems, dedicated energy crops and coalbed methanogenesis have been vividly explained as the biological routes for carbon sequestration. The geological carbon sequestering route centers on biochar application and oceanic carbon storage. A systematic survey has been made on the origin and impact of greenhouse gases along with the potential for sequestration based on some fast-track and long-term sequestration technologies.