Publication Overview
IEA GHG has produced a revised set of criteria for assessment of plants, particularly power plants with CO₂ capture, making use of information from EPRI and others. The revised criteria should be used by IEA GHG for its future studies. Other organisations are encouraged to use the criteria to provide consistency of results. Preliminary criteria have been specified for alternative locations and these should be finalised with local organisations at the time when IEA GHG undertakes its first study for each alternative location. Other alternative locations could be considered in future, at the request of IEA GHG’s members. As a follow on to this report IEA GHG will assess the feasibility of providing standard assessment criteria for CO₂ transport and storage and it will develop methodologies for comparing the relative merits of CCS and alternative low-CO₂ technologies.
Publication Summary
With respect to the Otway Project monitoring program, the expert review team considered that:
- In general the capacity, reliability, accuracy of many elements of the monitoring processes, are being demonstrated in the year since injection commenced, although as might be expected for a pilot test some techniques suffered from equipment reliability issues.
- Findings to date are consistent with model predictions about the injection stream (principally the CO2 plume).
- Although some techniques demonstrated understanding and appropriate handling of the uncertainties in the monitoring and verification (M&V), in general there was insufficient reporting of these.
- The monitoring programme was technically sound. Some assurance techniques would benefit from more consideration on expected responses for potential leakage scenarios.
- The overall Monitoring and Verification approach is comprehensive, fulfils the requirements and is achievable within the programme schedule.