Sentences with phrase «deep saline»

Coal - gasification provides opportunities to capture carbon dioxide from coal and store the greenhouse gas in deep saline aquifers.

When combined with a separate, related sequestration project starting this fall on the same corn processing plant, the initiative will pump more industrially captured carbon dioxide underneath the earth for permanent storage in deep saline rock reservoirs than ever has been attempted in the United States.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of CO2 via ships or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted oil and gas fields and deep saline formations.

Such rock, known as basalt, might be better than other sites, such as deep saline aquifers or nearly empty oil wells, because the rock not only stores CO2 but also over a relatively short period of years forms carbonate minerals out of it — in other words, limestone.

We found no evidence for contamination of drinking - water samples with deep saline brines or fracturing fluids.

A typical CCS project consists of capturing, transporting, compressing and securely storing the CO2 underground in depleted oil and gas fields or deep saline aquifer formations.

A more common type of subterranean structure — deep saline aquifers — has the potential to store up to 100,000 gigatonnes.

At a demonstration project in Japan, even a magnitude 6.8 earthquake didn't shake injected CO2 loose from a deep saline aquifer; the wellheads did not so much as leak.

Indeed, the Department of Energy estimates that the U.S. alone has storage available for 3,911 billion metric tons of CO2, in the form of geologic reservoirs of permeable sandstone or deep saline aquifers, according to a 2008 atlas.

This project will inject up to 300,000 tonnes of gas per year, depending on Cenovus's operations, into a 3.5 - kilometer - deep saline aquifer (a thin layer of brine - soaked porous rock) for storage.

Tristramits survey the Dead Sea, the deepest saline lake in the world.

«The real challenge is in proving not so much the capture part but that you can pipeline and inject this CO2 on a very large scale into a deep saline formation,» he says.

There, it is to be injected by wells more than 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) underground, into the deepest saline aquifer in Alberta.

The other cause of potential leaks, old «legacy» wells, is also minimal because the deep saline aquifer where Quest's CO2 will be stored has no oil or gas resources and as a result has not seen drilling to any significant extent.

Although Quest would rank among the half - dozen largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world, sequestering 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 per year in the deepest saline aquifer of Alberta, environmentalists point out the amount is just a small fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions from the province's oil sands operations.

Captured carbon dioxide will be stored in a deep saline aquifer.

In Australia carbon dioxide could theoretically be sequestered in depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquifers.

In these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquifers.