Carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Several approach and ideas has been developed in order to ameliorate increasing complaints of the effect of "Global warming". Carbon dioxide gas has been targeted as the main culprit. Basically, these are available technologies involved to capture this gas from point sources such as; turbine, cement factories, Oil refineries, then due to a network system of pipes the gas is stored under tested and secured geological formations. Such formations where carbon dioxide can be stored include; depleted oil reservoirs, depleted gas reservoirs, Underground coal seams.

After storage, the wells with which the gas was channeled into the ground is completely sealed up. That is not to say that problems are not encountered. As a matter of fact, a lot of issues arise such as leakage through these injection wells or possible fracture of storage formation during injection. Such problems are currently been resolved in the industry.

Monitoring of these injection sites will be carried out for a good number of years to ensure stability and compactibilty of the gas in the store geological formation. CCS is not the complete solution to the rising global temperature, but it is certainly one of the required technologies and/or approaches to combat it.















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