The rapid and cost-effective capture and subsurface mineral storage of carbon and sulfur at the CarbFix2 site

Ingvi Gunnarsson; Edda S. Aradóttir; Eric H. Oelkers; Deirdre E. Clark; Magnús Þór Arnarson; Bergur Sigfússon; Sandra Snæbjörnsdóttir; Juerg M. Matter; Martin Stute; Bjarni M. Júlíusson; Sigurður R. Gíslason

doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.08.014

The rapid and cost-effective capture and subsurface mineral storage of carbon and sulfur at the CarbFix2 site

Ingvi Gunnarsson
, Edda S. Aradóttir
, Eric H. Oelkers
, Deirdre E. Clark
, Magnús Þór Arnarson
, Bergur Sigfússon
, Sandra Snæbjörnsdóttir
, Juerg M. Matter
, Martin Stute
, Bjarni M. Júlíusson
, Sigurður R. Gíslason

Science Institute

University of Iceland

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Abstract

One of the main challenges of worldwide carbon capture and storage (CCS) efforts is its cost. As much as 90% of this cost stems from the capture of pure or nearly pure CO₂ from exhaust streams. This cost can be lowered by capturing gas mixtures rather than pure CO₂. Here we present a novel integrated carbon capture and storage technology, installed at the CarbFix2 storage site at Hellisheiði, Iceland that lowers considerably the cost and energy required at this site. The CarbFix2 site, located in deeper and hotter rocks than the original CarbFix site, permits the continuous injection of larger quantities of CO₂ and H₂S than the original site. The integrated process consists of soluble gas mixture capture in water followed by the direct injection of the resulting CO₂-H₂S-charged water into basaltic rock, where much of the dissolved carbon and sulfur are mineralized within months. This integrated method provides the safe, long-term storage of carbon dioxide and other acid gases at a cost of US $25/ton of the gas mixture at the CarbFix2 site and might provide the technology for lower CCS cost at other sites.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-126
Number of pages	10
Journal	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Volume	79
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.08.014
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: We acknowledge funding from Reykjavik Energy ; the European Commission through the projects CarbFix (EC coordinated action 283148 ), Min-GRO ( MC-RTN-35488 ), Delta-Min ( PITN-GA-2008-215360 ), and CO2-REACT (EC Project 317235) to E.H.O., S.R.G., and Reykjavik Energy ; CarbFix2 (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant number 764760 ); S4CE (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant number 764810 ); Nordic fund 11029-NORDICCS ; the Icelandic GEORG Geothermal Research fund ( 09-02-001 ) to S.R.G. and Reykjavik Energy ; and the U.S. Department of Energy under award number DE-FE0004847 to J.M.M and M.S.; We thank Þ. A. Þorgeirsson, T. Kristinsson, H. Bergmann, S. S. Sigurðardóttir, V. Eiríksdóttir, C. Marieni and F. Jónsdóttir for helping with sample collection in the field and analysis. Publisher Copyright: © 2018

Other keywords

Basalt
CCS
CO
HS
Hellisheiði
Mineralization

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S4CE: Science for Clean Energy
Gíslason, S. R. (PI)
1/09/17 → 31/12/20
University of Iceland
Project: Research
CarbFix2: Upscaling and optimizing subsurface, in situ carbon mineralization as an economically viable industrial option
Gíslason, S. R. (PI)
1/08/17 → 31/01/21
University of Iceland
Project: Research

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Gunnarsson, I., Aradóttir, E. S., Oelkers, E. H., Clark, D. E., Arnarson, M. Þ., Sigfússon, B., Snæbjörnsdóttir, S., Matter, J. M., Stute, M., Júlíusson, B. M., & Gíslason, S. R. (2018). The rapid and cost-effective capture and subsurface mineral storage of carbon and sulfur at the CarbFix2 site. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 79, 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.08.014

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The rapid and cost-effective capture and subsurface mineral storage of carbon and sulfur at the CarbFix2 site

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CarbFix2: Upscaling and optimizing subsurface, in situ carbon mineralization as an economically viable industrial option

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