Industrial Process Scale-up

Chapter 8

A Risk-Based Approach to Scale-Up of Amine Absorption Processes for CO₂ Capture and Storage

Hamidreza Bakhtiary-Davijany and Tore Myhrvold, DNV Research & Innovation, Det Norske Veritas AS, Høvik, Norway

8.1 Introduction

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an important component of low-carbon technologies for climate change mitigation. The Global CCS Institute suggests a definition for CCS as the long-term isolation of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere through capturing and storing the CO₂ deep in the subsurface of the Earth. Carbon capture is the separation of CO₂ from the other gases produced when fossil fuels are burnt for power generation and when CO₂ is produced in other industrial processes. Once separated, the CO₂