Abstract

Strategic infrastructure assessment for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
Track: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Authors: Chung Shih

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) draws increasing attention recently because it could potentially reduce global CO2 emissions by 19%, and help reducing the cost to fight climate change by 70%.
While North America has a potentially large capacity to store carbon dioxide at its current rate of production for more than 900 years, the success of CCS is not only determined by the storing capacity. The related infrastructure is essential to support the CCS development. Locations for CO2 storage sinks, transshipments, and the pipeline network, are all critical for infrastructure planning to optimize the facility coverage and to minimize the overall cost.
The goal of this quick turnaround project is to design a geospatial framework that allows users to build scenarios to optimize CCS infrastructure based on a resource evaluating criteria matrix and resources/location allocation processes. This framework can be applied during the infrastructure planning stage to optimize resources.