Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

California Energy Commission

Stationary CO2 Sources

Sequestration Data and Impacts on Total Emissions

Coal-Fired Power Plant and Gasification Facility

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

What’s a “Nexant” Formed on January 1, 2000 Core group from units of Bechtel Group, Inc., Ten permanent offices & projects around the world Fulltime staff of 300 Portfolio of 75 projects in 30 countries

Advanced Power Generation, Climate Change, CO2 Sequestration, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen (production, delivery, and vehicles), Solar, Biomass, Co-Production Clean Fuels Plant, Other Energy Stuff.

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Site and Industry Data

• Primary Emission Sources – Power, cement, chemical & refinery, mining, paper, and other large, technically sophisticated plants

• Secondary Sources – Combustors such as prisons, hospitals, military bases, universities

• Source criteria will be established as data is reviewed

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Data Sources

• Existing Federal reporting systems; US DOE, EPA

• Existing State reporting systems

• Telephone, emails and other communications to collect data

• Visits and whipping posts

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Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Data Types

• Carbon inputs and outputs• Other emissions, solid and

liquid wastes• Process descriptions• Emission stream conditions,

temperature, pressure, constituents

• Site data – location, transport access, available space, surrounding features

• As much cost and economics as will be provided

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Data Types (Maybe)

• Existing pollutant controls and waste disposal

• Existing and developing control technologies database

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• Site process performance

• Major equipment types, age, and performance

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Data Structure

• To be determined – I think I know what is needed for decision-making from technical, process and environmental side. However,

• There is an early need to coordinate and define all our data structure to fit the databases, and assessment models

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Database and Assessment Objectives

• Definition of current conditions

• Pilot plant locations and logistics

• Other R&D opportunities i.e. CO2 capture, multi-pollutant technologies, terrestrial opportunities too

• Early commercial opportunities

• Longer range CO2 reduction and sequestration options

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

Other Considerations and Grist for the Mill

• Global nature of the problem, the research, and the opportunities

• Timing for planning, R&D, education, policy and actions

• Practical technologies not yet available

• Retrofit of existing sources very unlikely

• Future plants will need to have zero emission designed and built-in

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off

More Grist

• Geological sequestration needs to be ready, tested, accepted, and cost efficient

• Oil and gas deposits a near-term possibility, deep aquifers and coal seams later, mineral carbonation much later

• The next 16 or so months will only skim the surface of what needs to be done

Sacramento 9/30 to 10/1 2003

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Project Kick-Off