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Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Gas, Oil, and Coal Power Plants in Pakistan by Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): A Review
Author(s) -
Rashid Muhammad Imran,
Benhelal Emad,
Rafiq Sikander
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201900297
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , carbon capture and storage (timeline) , fossil fuel , environmental science , clean coal technology , bio energy with carbon capture and storage , coal , waste management , raw material , clean coal , climate change mitigation , environmental engineering , natural resource economics , engineering , climate change , chemistry , organic chemistry , ecology , economics , biology
Abstract The production of energy in Pakistan as a developing country mainly depends on consumption of fossil fuels, which are the main sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions can be mitigated by implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) in running plants. An overview of the current and future potentials of Pakistan for CCS is provided, indicating a great potential for this technology to capture CO 2 emissions. The amine CO 2 capture process as the most mature procedure is currently applied in many oil and gas companies in Pakistan, which can be employed to capture CO 2 from other industries as well. Pakistan has a great CO 2 storage potential in oil, gas, and coal fields and in saline aquifer as well as significant resources of Mg and Ca silicates suitable as feedstock in the carbon mineralization process. For further development and implementation of CCS technologies in Pakistan, economic and policy barriers as the main obstacles should be alleviated.