PORE SPACE CAPACITY ON AGENDA AS CCS RESEARCHERS GATHER

摘要

When hundreds of the world's top carbon capture and sequestration researchers gather in Pittsburgh this week, one of the concerns sure to be discussed among attendees is whether there is enough pore space to handle large-scale sequestration in the United States. Most researchers believe there is more than enough capacity to handle commercial-scale volumes of CO_2 from power generation facilities, but the subject has been brought to the forefront by a recent technical paper from researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Houston that suggested pore space capacity could actually be far less than currently thought.