2006, Techno-Economic Models for Carbon Dioxide Compression, Transport, and Storage & Correlations for Estimating Carbon Dioxide Density and Viscosity. Institute of Transportation Studies

Due to a heightened interest in technologies to mitigate global climate change, research in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS) has attracted greater attention in recent years, with the goal of answering the many questions that still remain in this uncertain field. At the top of the list of key issues are CCS costs: costs of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, compression, transport, storage, and so on. This research report touches upon several of these cost components. It also provides some technical models for determining the engineering and infrastructure requirements of CCS, and describes some correlations for estimating CO2 density and viscosity, both of which are often essential properties for modeling CCS. This report is actually a compilation of three separate research reports and is, therefore, divided into three separate sections. But although each could be considered as a stand-alone research report, they are, in fact, very much related to one other. Section I builds upon some of the knowledge from the latter sections, and Sections II & III can be considered as supplementary to Section I