CO2 Extraction / Recovery--Overview 1

[bonzoboy]

Does anybody have a link they can send me that would give me some information that 1) summarizes that CO2 is currently extracted from gases (either pipeline or even CO2 produced by combustion) and 2) an inventory of the plants that currently recover CO2 that is produced via combustion? I think there are a couple of plants in West Texas that extract CO2 by burning fuel, and inject the CO2 for EOR, but I'm not sure of that.

 

[rmw]

The only situations I am familiar with where CO2 is used for reinjection is from plants where the CO2 is a pure stream as a by product from the process; e.g. Ammonia production.

If anyone is doing it with combustion products, I also await other answers to your OP.

rmw

 

[pipehead]

Each state EPA requires operators of plants to obtain permits. The permits will have data on maximum rates of CO2 recovered from the natural gas streams. You may go to stse deparments of environmental quaity and get public records on such data.

Look up in your favorite search engine, EOR, CO2 pipelines and you'll get a lot of information about a system of lines that more CO2 to oil fields. The CO2 is injected into old oil zones to extract more oil. This is mostly in west Texas.
No one would purposely burn methane to make CO2 today. In the 70's that may have happened (I saw one in Wyoming once). There are deposites of 99.9% pure CO2 in Utah and Colorado, so its cheaper to just drill and produce that CO2 than make it from fuel sources.

One of the largest places where CO2 is removed from a natural gas stream so the natural gas will burn is in Wyoming.