MIP 2.2 Carbon dioxide – ports to pipelines

CO₂ ports to pipelines [CO₂P2P]

IDRIC Project MIP 2.2

Background

Shipping of CO₂ is the critical enabling action required to facilitate Carbon Capture and Storage.

The Carbon Capture and Storage National strategy is to store around 50Mtpa by 2035, as set out in the Net Zero Strategy.

Prof Damon A.H. Teagle

Dr Lindsay-Marie Armstrong

Co- Principal Investigators
University of Southampton

Project Team

Prof Stephen Turnock
University of Southampton

Dr Wassim Dbouk
University of Southampton

Aim

Developing a techno-economic model for optimising CO₂ shipping and port infrastructure and storage; Techno-economic design for preferred CO₂ transportation from industry to the geological store.

This project will optimise approaches for the movement by ships of CO₂ from clusters/sources without nearby CO₂ geo-storage to other UK clusters with suitable storage capacity.

We will consider the specific CO₂ waste streams from different sources (with a range of purities and phases) within regions, production volumes, port capabilities and attributes, and the design of appropriate port-side CO₂ transit infrastructure.

We will take a deliberately UK-centric approach investigating specific UK sources, ports and shipping routes (cf. Northern Lights, ALIGN).

We will work closely with UK regulators to design seamless enabling regulations from source to geo-storage.

The goals of this project are:

Optimisation of effective methodology and development of supporting regulation of CO₂ transport by ships and transit storage of CO₂ in ports;
Development of regulatory frameworks and seamless connections between onshore and offshore regulators;
Measure and test wider public acceptance of CO₂ transport, port storage, and shipping of CO₂. (and other cryogenic potential future fuels (H2₂, NH₃).

Our optimisation of CO₂ shipping will include investigations of:

Ship size, vessel availability, retrofit/new build, port capabilities, cargo size, storage and supply and transfer rates;
Whole-chain assessment of technical /economic/energy costs of CO₂-phase changes from capture to geostorage;
Enabling regulations for UK and international best practice to establish nascent industry and new commodity trade.

Meet the Team

Team 1

Dr Wassim Dbouk

University of Southampton

Team 1

Dr Wassim Dbouk

University of Southampton

Team 1

Dr Wassim Dbouk

University of Southampton

Team 1

Prof Stephen Turnock

University of Southampton

Case Study/Progress:

Techno-Economic Model will define costs and the best-case scenario for transportation of CO₂, from industrial clusters delivering CO₂ to ports in East and South of the UK, to the geostorages in the North Sea, Teeside area.

The model results will show ship number and size; the number of trucks for non-pipeline road transport; optimal storage capacity and road transport solution vs. pipeline.