Environmental Sustainability of Electricity Generation Systems with Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

Abstract:

<p>This working paper analyses the environmental sustainability of four electricity production systems that include carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS):</p> <ul> <li>Pulverised coal (PC)</li> <li>Pulverised coal with oxyfuel combustion (PCOC)</li> <li>Natural gas combined cycle (NGCC), and</li> <li>Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)</li> </ul> <p>The analysis is based largely on a review of relevant Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). Thus it considers the environmental sustainability of the entire electricity generation chain from fuel extraction through electricity generation and CO2capture to CO2 storage.</p>

Publication Year:

2008

Publisher:

UKERC

DOI:

No DOI minted

Author(s):

Holloway, S. and Rowley, W.J.