Sustaining fossil fuel use in a carbon-constrained world by rapid commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3022-3028

  Sheppard, Michael C ^a   Socolow, Robert H ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon capture; Carbon capture and sequestration; Carbon capture and storage; Carbon constraint; Carbon management; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; CO 2 mitigation; Fossil fuel use

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749001821     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11356     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Petit JR, Jouzel J, Barkov NI et al. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature. 1999;399:429-436.
2. Jouzel J, Masson-Delmotte V, Cattani O et al. Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000years. Science. 2007;317:793-796.
3. Kawamura K, Parrenin F, Lisiecki L et al. Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years. Nature. 2007;448:921-917.
4. 2 cycles. Science. 2005;308:74-78.
5. 2 concentrations during the last glacial period. Nature. 1997;389:929-935.
6. McCarthy JJ, Canziani OF, Leary NA, Dokken DJ, White KS, eds. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2001.
7. Hansen J. Defusing the global warming time bomb. Sci Amer. 2004;290:68-77.
8. 2 Emissions. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Oak Ridge, TN: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy; 2007. Available at http://cdiac.esd.ornl. gov/trends/emis/tre_glob.htm.
9. The figure was prepared by Robert A. Rohde and is incorporated into the Global Warming Art project. It can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Image:Global_Carbon_Emission_by_Type.png
10. 2 emissions from volcanoes. Eos. Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 1991;72:249, and 254-255.
11. International Energy Agency. World Energy Outlook. 2006. Paris, France: OECD/IEA; 2006.
12. Overpeck JT, Otto-Bliesner BL, Miller GH, Muhs DR, Alley RB, Kiehl JT. paleoclimatic evidence for future ice-sheet instability and rapid sea-level rise. Science. 2006;311:1747-1750.
13. Pacala S, Socolow R. Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science. 2004;305:968-972.
14. Socolow RH, Lam SH. Good enough tools for global warming policy making. Phil Trans R Soc A. 2007;365:897-934.
15. National Petroleum Council. Facing the Hard Truths about Energy. July 2007 Available at: http://downloads.connectlive.com/events/npc071807/pdf- downloads/Facing_Hard_Truths-Executive_Summary.pdf.
16. 2 sequestration. Science. 2003;300:1677-1678.
17. Royal Society.Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. June 2005: Policy Document 12/05.
18. Elliott S, Lackner KS, Ziock HJ et al. Compensation of atmospheric buildup through engineered chemical sinkage. Geophys Res. Letts. 2001;28:1235-1238.
19. 2 capture from the air. Climatic Change (serial online). 2005; DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9026-x.
20. th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. Trondheim, Norway; 2006.
21. Zeman FS. Air extraction: the feasibility of absorbing CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York; 2006. PhD Thesis.
22. Zeman FS, Lackner KS. Capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. World Resour Rev. 2004;16:157-172.
23. Crutzen PJ. Albedo Enhancement by stratospheric sulfur snjections: A contribution to resolve a policy dilemna. Climatic Change. 2006;77:211-219.
24. Huijgen WJJ, Comans RNJ. Carbon dioxide storage by mineral carbonation. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands; 2005.
25. Liang-Shih F, Li F. Clean coal. Physics World. 2007;20:37-41.
26. th International Meeting on Greenhouse Gas control (GHGT-6); 2002.
27. Socolow RH. Can we bury global warming? Scientific American. 2005;293:49-35.
28. Metz B, Davidson O, de Coninck H, Loos M, Meyer L, eds. IPCC Special report: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2005.
29. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Summary for policymakers: a report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Geneva: The Panel; 2001.
30. th International conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. 2005;2:1353-1359.
31. Holloway S. Carbon dioxide capture and geological storage. Philosophical Trans of the Royal Soc A. 2007;365:1095-1107.
32. th Petroleum Geology Conference. London: Geological Society; 2005:1385-1399.
33. 2: Is Leakage Unavoidable and Acceptable? Proc. Sixth Intl. Greenhouse Gas Technologies Conference. 2003;I:477-482.
34. Briggs J. The Carson Hydrogen Project. (BP Alternative Energy) Gasification Technologies Council Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: GTC; 2006.
35. Booras G. Feasibility Study for an Integrated Gasification combined Cycle Facility at a Texas Site. EPRI Report No. 1014510 Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute; 2006.
36. Williams R. Co-Production of Synfuels and Electricity from Coal Biomass with Zero Net Carbon Emissions: A Case Study for Illinois. Pittsburgh, PA: Sixth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration; 2007.