Energy Sources Part A-recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, Vol.32, No.2, 180-188, 2010
Equivalent Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Processes in Offshore Petroleum Production Facilities
The present study approaches the economic and technical evaluation of equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2 eqv.) capture and storage processes, considered in a proposal case compared to a base case. The base case considers an offshore petroleum production facility, with high CO2 content (4 vol%) in the composition of the produced gas and both CO2 and natural gas emissions to the atmosphere, called CO2 eqv. emissions. The results obtained with this study, by using a Hysys process simulator, showed a CO2 emission reduction of 65% comparing the proposal case in relation to the base case.