This blog is about reducing or eliminating carbon dioxide at point sources such as process industries, power plants etc.
CO2 capture and sequestration is a set of technologies that can greatly reduce CO2 emissions from new and existing coal and gas fired power plants, and large industrial resources.
You might had heard about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) or Carbon Control and Sequestration or Carbon Capture and Sequestration. It is methodology of capturing waste gases i.e CO2 and conveying it to a storage location and finally disposing it where it will not enter the atmosphere.
CCS is basically three step process that includes:
- Capture CO2 from industrial process or power plant
- Transport of the captured and compressed CO2
- Underground injection and geologic sequestration also referred to as storage of the CO2 in to deep ground rock formation.
Importance in combating Global Warming:
It is well known that CO2 is greenhouse gas and It is primary contributor to Global Warming.
CCS can play vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emission.
For example if we supply such as system to 500 MW coal fired power plant emitting approx 3 trillion tons of CO2 the amount of greenhouse gas emission avoided is equivalent to planting more than 62 millions trees and waiting more than 10 years to let them grow up.
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