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Resource Foreign

IEA report, Retrofitting CO2 Capture to Existing Power Plants

IEA’s 2011 report surveys post-combustion retrofits on both coal and NGCC plants, using an economic model to assess the value proposition for different technology types.

Resource Foreign

Accelerating the Uptake of CCS: Industrial Use of Captured Carbon Dioxide

The Global CCS Institute’s 2011 report, on industrial use of captured CO2 investigates existing and emerging uses of CO2 and reviews the potential to capture and reuse CO2 for industrial applications ...

Resource States and State Governments

Report, Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage in the Louisiana Chemical Corridor

This study identifies industrial CCS as a potential source of negative emissions in Louisiana, with the right policy changes. In Louisiana, industrial carbon emissions, driven primarily by refining an...

Resource Executive Branch

Report, Accelerating Breakthrough Innovation in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

DOE’s 2017 report aims to assess current gaps in CCS technologies and identify the most promising directions for basic research that is needed to achieve long-term global carbon management. These area...

Resource Executive Branch

NETL Reports, Best Practices for Carbon Storage Systems

The National Energy Technology Laboratory publishes Best Practice Manuals focused on establishing uniform approaches for carrying out essential activities common to the success of all CCS projects, in...

Resource Private Entities

Report, Application of Advanced Technologies for CO2 Capture from Industrial Sources

Romano et al.’s 2013 report investigates the potential of new CO2 technologies in the application on the major industrial emitters.

Resource Private Entities

Report, The Cost of Carbon Capture

Rubin et al.’s 2015 report in the Journal for Greenhouse Gas Control assesses the current costs of CCS in new fossil fuel plants. It shows that while the capital requirements for installing carbon cap...

Resource Executive Branch

NETL report, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Approaches for NGCC Systems

NETL’s 2010 report surveys case studies of carbon capture at NGCC plants, including post-, pre-, and oxy-combustion, and their performance factors.

Resource Executive Branch

DOE report, Siting and Regulating Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Infrastructure Workshop Report

DOE’s 2017 report surveys existing and potential CCS infrastructure, state and federal incentives, and state and federal policy regarding pipelines and storage.

Resource Private Entities

Report, Overview of Carbon Capture Technology: Microalgal Biorefinery Concept and State-of-the-Art

Singh and Dhar’s 2019 report provides a brief yet comprehensive review of the present carbon sequestration and utilization technologies, focusing primarily on biological CO2 capture by microalgae in t...

Resource Private Entities

Integrated Environmental Control Model

Carnegie Mellon University’s Integrated Environmental Control Model is a free, public, power plant modeling tool that provides systematic estimates of the performance, fuel consumption, emissions, and...

Resource Executive Branch

NETL Studies on the Economic Feasibility of CO2 Capture

Through 2015, DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory published reports on carbon capture systems analysis. NETL conducted various energy analyses that provide input to decisions on issues such as...

Resource Congress

Report, Capturing Investment: Policy Design to Finance CCUS Projects in the U.S. Power Sector

The Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy’s 2020 report examines which policies might work to stimulate investment for CCUS projects in the U.S. power sector, including capital incentives...

Resource States and State Governments

Report, Assessment of Natural Gas Combined Cycle Plants for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in a Gas-Dominated Electricity Market

Holden’s 2014 report for the California Energy Commission evaluates CO2 capture technology options for use on NGCC plants; compares and contrasts CO2 capture on other fossil plant technologies to CO2 ...

Resource Congress

Report, Opportunities and Limits of CO2 Recycling in a Circular Carbon Economy

This report, part of the Carbon Management Research Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Policy, examines 19 CO2 recycling pathways to understand the opportunities and the technical an...

Resource Executive Branch

NETL Carbon Storage Atlas

The NETL Carbon Storage Atlas is intended to provide a coordinated update of CCS potential across the United States and other portions of North America. DOE has released five versions of the atlas wit...

Resource Private Entities

Report, An Overview of Current Status of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies

Leung, Caramanna, and Maroto-Valer’s 2014 report reviews various aspects of CCS including the state-of-the-art technologies for CO2 capture, separation, transport, storage, leakage, monitoring, and li...