Sentences with phrase «pumped deep underground»

The emissions can then be pumped deep underground or used in industrial applications, such as making fertilizer, extracting hard - to - reach oil reserves, or producing new electricity.

In principle, however, the CO2 could also be pumped deep underground and locked safely away in specific rock formations for millennia.

Hydrofracking relies on a high - pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water pumped deep underground to break up gas - bearing rock formations, freeing gas to rise up the well to the surface.

Some of the power generated would be used to compress the CO2 and pump it deep underground to be permanently stored in saline aquifers.

Power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer may actually be made worse by capturing the CO2 and pumping it deep underground, a new study reported online and in an upcoming International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control suggests.

Next, the CO2 has to be extracted from the sorbent and sequestered, presumably by pumping it deep underground at relatively high concentration or by binding it to minerals — a bit like how we handle nuclear waste.

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The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

For deeper deposits, volumes of superhot pressurized steam are pumped underground to melt out the bitumen so it can be sucked up to the surface by production wells running in parallel.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is compressed and pumped as a liquid deep underground.

For one, experts say that aquifers the states and the EPA once thought would never be needed may soon become important sources of water as the climate changes and technology reduces the cost of pumping it from deep underground and treating it for consumption.

Some experts say that coal - fired plants can only become truly clean if the government and industry pump billions of dollars into the technological upgrades required to extract the carbon dioxide gas created during combustion and sequester it semipermanently deep underground.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

There, the CO2 gets pumped down under pressure into a well and stored underground as deep as 8,000 feet.

Scientists working at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant near Reykjavik, Iceland, were able to pump the plant's carbon dioxide - rich volcanic gases into deep underground basalt formations, mix them with water and chemically solidify the carbon dioxide.

Water pumped from deep underground during oil and gas drilling could help farmers weather water shortages.

59 down from rig for deep ocean disposal Abandoned oil field Crop field Spent oil reservoir is used for Crop field Tanker delivers CO2 from plant to rig Coal power plant Oil rig Tree plantation CO2 is pumped down from rig for deep ocean disposal Abandoned oil field Crop field Switchgrass CO2 deposit CO2 is pumped down to reservoir through abandoned oil field Figure 20.15 Solutions: methods for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from smokestacks and storing (sequestering) it in plants, soil, deep underground reservoirs, and the deep ocean.

Steam is used to heat and separate the bitumen deep underground, and the now viscous bitumen is pumped to the surface.

For many years, scientists have looked into pumping carbon dioxide deep underground, where it could be stored for thousands of years, to reduce levels emitted from power plants.