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Fair design of CCS infrastructure for power plants in Qatar under carbon trading scheme

Zhang, D; Alhorr, Y; Elsarrag, E; Marafia, AH; Lettieri, P; Papageorgiou, LG; (2017) Fair design of CCS infrastructure for power plants in Qatar under carbon trading scheme. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control , 56 pp. 43-54. 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.11.014. Green open access

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Abstract

Qatar is currently the highest emitter per capita and targets emission reduction by exercising tight controls on gas flaring. In order to limit the emission under allowances, the power plants have two options: investing in carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems or buying carbon credits for the excess emissions above their allowances. However, CCS systems are expensive for installation and operation. In this paper, a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed for the design of integrated carbon capture, transport and storage infrastructure in Qatar under carbon trading scheme. We first investigate the critical carbon credit prices to decide under which price it is more beneficial to invest on CCS systems or to buy carbon credits via carbon trading. Then the fair design of the CCS infrastructure is obtained under two fairness scenarios: the same saving ratio and the game theory Nash approach. Fair cost distribution among power plants in Qatar is obtained by selecting the CO2 resources (power plants) to be captured with available capture technologies and materials, designing the transportation pipeline network to connect the resources with the sequestration and/or utilisation sites and determining the carbon trading price and amount among power plants. Under different fairness scenarios, the total costs are slightly higher than that from minimising the total cost to obtain the fair cost distribution. Power plants with higher CO2 emissions determine to install CCS system, while other power plants buy the carbon credits from domestic or international market to fulfil their carbon allowance requirements. The future work includes extending the current model by considering power generation distribution and designing the pipeline network with the selection of pump locations and pipe diameters.

Type: Article
Title: Fair design of CCS infrastructure for power plants in Qatar under carbon trading scheme
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.11.014
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.11.014
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Energy & Fuels, Engineering, Environmental, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Engineering, CCS, Carbon trading, Game theory, Mixed integer linear programming (MILP), CO2 CAPTURE, SUPPLY CHAIN, STORAGE-SYSTEMS, OPTIMIZATION, MODEL, SEQUESTRATION, DEPLOYMENT, NETWORK, PRICE, INTEGRATION
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538986
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