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Professor Niall Mac Dowell FIChemE FRSC

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Professor of Future Energy Systems
 
 
 
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16 Prince's GardensSouth Kensington Campus

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Citation

BibTex format

@article{Cabral:2019:10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.020,
author = {Cabral, RP and Bui, M and Dowell, NM},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.020},
journal = {International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control},
pages = {221--237},
title = {A synergistic approach for the simultaneous decarbonisation of power and industry via bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.020},
volume = {87},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - There is a need for a rapid and large scale decarbonisation to reduce CO2 emissions by 45% within 12 years. Thus, we propose a method that accelerates decarbonisation across multiple sectors via a synergistic approach with bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), which is able to remove 740 kgCO2 from air per MWh electricity generated. Industry is a hard-to-decarbonise sector which presents a unique set of challenges where, unlike the power sector, there are no obvious alternatives to CCS. One of these challenges is the significant variation of CO2 concentration, which directly influences CO2 capture costs, ranging from $10/tCO2 to over $170/tCO2 for high (95–99% CO2) and low CO2 concentration (4% CO2) applications, respectively. Re-purposing the existing coal-fired power plant fleet into BECCS displaces CO2 emissions from coal-use and enables a just transition, i.e., avoiding job loss, providing a supportive economic framework that does not rely on government subsidies. Negative emissions generated from capturing and storing atmospheric CO2 can be converted into negative emission credits (NECs) and auctioned to hard-to-decarbonise sectors, thus providing another revenue stream to the power plant. A levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) between $70 and $100 per MWh can be achieved through auctioning NECs at $90–$135 per tCO2. Offsetting the global industrial CO2 emissions of 9 GtCO2 would require 3000 BECCS plants under this framework. This approach could jumpstart industrial decarbonisation whilst giving this sector more time to develop new CCS technologies.
AU  - Cabral,RP
AU  - Bui,M
AU  - Dowell,NM
DO  - 10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.020
EP  - 237
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1750-5836
SP  - 221
TI  - A synergistic approach for the simultaneous decarbonisation of power and industry via bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
T2  - International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.020
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583619301422
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/70677
VL  - 87
ER  -
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