Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, transportation, and storage may be considered as a short- to medium-term solution to reduce green house emission while carbon-neutral energy technologies are developed. Several pilot plants have been built in recent years to demonstrate carbon capture and storage, to learn and to optimize facilities and related processes. Extensive industrial experience is already available in CO2 pipelines for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations, but further experience is needed for transporting CO2 in presence of impurities resulting from some capture processes. With all these developments, carbon capture, transportation, and storage (CCS) infrastructure is becoming increasingly possible. The CO2 captured from various sources may contain many impurities depending on the process and capture technology. Currently there is little knowledge of the effect of impurities on material properties under CCS operating conditions.

This paper identifies some key material issues, discusses current R&D being carried out to address them, and proposes a method to perform coordinated R&D to produce useful corrosion rate information to aid in the material selection CCS network.

Subject
Water, Materials, Piping, Composition, Corrosion rate, Pipelines, Storage, Gas pressure, Flue gas, Impurities, Transportation, Carbon steel, Stainless steel
Keywords:
CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transportation, CCS, carbon capture, carbon storage
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2012
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