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Assuring the integrity of offshore carbon dioxide storage

Assuring the integrity of offshore carbon dioxide storage
Assuring the integrity of offshore carbon dioxide storage
Carbon capture and storage is a key mitigation strategy proposed for keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5 °C. Offshore storage can provide up to 13% of the global CO2 reduction required to achieve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goals. The public must be assured that potential leakages from storage reservoirs can be detected and that therefore the CO2 is safely contained. We conducted a controlled release of 675 kg CO2 within sediments at 120 m water depth, to simulate a leak and test novel detection, quantification and attribution approaches. We show that even at a very low release rate (6 kg day−1), CO2 can be detected within sediments and in the water column. Alongside detection we show the fluxes of both dissolved and gaseous CO2 can be quantified. The CO2 source was verified using natural and added tracers. The experiment demonstrates that existing technologies and techniques can detect, attribute and quantify any escape of CO2 from sub-seabed reservoirs as required for public assurance, regulatory oversight and emissions trading schemes.
Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon dioxide, MONITORING, Marine Carbon Capture and Storage, measurement, verification
1364-0321
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Connelly, Douglas, Bull, Jonathan, Flohr, Anita, Koopmans, Dirk, Blackford, Jerry, White, Paul, James, Rachael, Pearce, Chris, lichtschlag, Anna, Achterberg, Eric, de Beer, Dirk, Roche, Ben, Li, Jianghui, Saw, Kevin, Alendal, G, Alvesen, H, Brown, R, Borisov, Sergei, Bottner, Christoph, Cazenave, Pierre, Chen, Baixin, Dale, A, Dean, Marcella, Dewar, Marius, Esposito, M, Gros, J, Hanz, R, Haeckel, Matthias, Hosking, Brett, Huvenne, veerle, Karstens, Jens, Le Bas, Tim, Leighton, Timothy, Linke, Peter, Loucaides, S, Matter, Juerg, Monk, S, Mowlem, Matthew, Oleynik, A, Omar, A, Peel, Kate, Provenzano, Giuseppe, Saleem, U, Schmidt, Mark, Schramm, Bettina, Sommer, S, Strong, James, Falcon Suarez, Ismael, Ungerboeck, B, Widdicombe, Steve, Wright, H and Yakushev, E (2022) Assuring the integrity of offshore carbon dioxide storage. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 166, [112670]. (doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112670).

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Abstract

Carbon capture and storage is a key mitigation strategy proposed for keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5 °C. Offshore storage can provide up to 13% of the global CO2 reduction required to achieve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change goals. The public must be assured that potential leakages from storage reservoirs can be detected and that therefore the CO2 is safely contained. We conducted a controlled release of 675 kg CO2 within sediments at 120 m water depth, to simulate a leak and test novel detection, quantification and attribution approaches. We show that even at a very low release rate (6 kg day−1), CO2 can be detected within sediments and in the water column. Alongside detection we show the fluxes of both dissolved and gaseous CO2 can be quantified. The CO2 source was verified using natural and added tracers. The experiment demonstrates that existing technologies and techniques can detect, attribute and quantify any escape of CO2 from sub-seabed reservoirs as required for public assurance, regulatory oversight and emissions trading schemes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2 June 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 June 2022
Published date: September 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding was provided by the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement number 654462 (STEMM-CCS). We are grateful to the Captains and crews of the RRS James Cook and RV Poseidon for enabling the scientific measurements at sea during the JC180 and POS518, POS527, POS534 and MSM63 and MSM68 cruises. Mark Wells and the team at Cellular Robotics are thanked for the development of the seabed drilling system. We thank the support team at the National Marine Facilities at the NOC in Southampton for their unstinting help in the planning of the complex cruise programme. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors
Keywords: Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon dioxide, MONITORING, Marine Carbon Capture and Storage, measurement, verification

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Local EPrints ID: 467327
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/467327
ISSN: 1364-0321
PURE UUID: 0b74de5b-4e48-4529-90f6-640a726b3a09
ORCID for Jonathan Bull: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3373-5807
ORCID for Anita Flohr: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5018-5379
ORCID for Paul White: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-8713
ORCID for Rachael James: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7402-2315
ORCID for Ben Roche: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-2947
ORCID for Jianghui Li: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2956-5940
ORCID for Timothy Leighton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-8750
ORCID for Juerg Matter: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1070-7371

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Date deposited: 06 Jul 2022 16:45
Last modified: 12 Jul 2024 01:50

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Author: Douglas Connelly
Author: Jonathan Bull ORCID iD
Author: Anita Flohr ORCID iD
Author: Dirk Koopmans
Author: Jerry Blackford
Author: Paul White ORCID iD
Author: Rachael James ORCID iD
Author: Chris Pearce
Author: Anna lichtschlag
Author: Eric Achterberg
Author: Dirk de Beer
Author: Ben Roche ORCID iD
Author: Jianghui Li ORCID iD
Author: Kevin Saw
Author: G Alendal
Author: H Alvesen
Author: R Brown
Author: Sergei Borisov
Author: Christoph Bottner
Author: Pierre Cazenave
Author: Baixin Chen
Author: A Dale
Author: Marcella Dean
Author: Marius Dewar
Author: M Esposito
Author: J Gros
Author: R Hanz
Author: Matthias Haeckel
Author: Brett Hosking
Author: veerle Huvenne
Author: Jens Karstens
Author: Tim Le Bas
Author: Peter Linke
Author: S Loucaides
Author: Juerg Matter ORCID iD
Author: S Monk
Author: Matthew Mowlem
Author: A Oleynik
Author: A Omar
Author: Kate Peel
Author: Giuseppe Provenzano
Author: U Saleem
Author: Mark Schmidt
Author: Bettina Schramm
Author: S Sommer
Author: James Strong
Author: Ismael Falcon Suarez
Author: B Ungerboeck
Author: Steve Widdicombe
Author: H Wright
Author: E Yakushev

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