Cost Optimized CO2 Pipeline Transportation Grid: A Case Study from Italian Industries

This paper presents the feasibility study of CO2 sequestration from the sources to the sinks in the prospective of Italian Industries. CO2 produced at these sources captured, compressed to supercritical pressures, transported via pipelines and stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs, un-minable coal seams and deep saline aquifers. In this work, we present the optimized pipeline infrastructure for the CO2 with appropriate constraints to find lower cost system by the use of nonlinear optimization software LINGO 11.0. This study was conducted on CO2 transportation complex network of Italian Industries, to find minimum cost network for transporting the CO2 from sources to the sinks.

• P Bumb
• U Desideri
• F Quattrocchi
• L Arcioni

• CCS
• CO2
• ECBM
• EU
• NAP
• LINGO
• UNMIG.

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