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The Otway Stage 3 project will develop low-cost, low environmental footprint CO₂ storage monitoring technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS).

CO2CRC would like to acknowledge and thank the Global CCS Institute for funding the production of this video.

There was a great deal of activity at the CO2CRC Otway Research Facility on 10 and 11 October 2016, when an experimental capture platform was delivered.  The $1M piece of equipment, which was manufactured to exacting specifications in Melbourne, was lowered by crane onto a strengthened concrete slab.

The new equipment will capture methane from a high CO₂ concentration natural gas well using novel membrane and adsorbent materials, testing them for efficiency and cost effectiveness. The platform has been designed to be compact, energy efficient and robust, making it attractive to industry.  The intention is to use it initially in off-shore environments, with on-shore applications also possible.

CO2CRC’s Otway Research Facility is an ideal location to build and test the equipment as it has a high CO₂ concentration natural gas field and the costal environment is tough.

The CO2CRC Otway Project is Australia’s first demonstration of the deep geological storage or geosequestration of carbon dioxide (CO₂), the most common man-made greenhouse gas. Geological storage of CO₂, as part of carbon capture and storage (CCS), has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial sources such as power stations by up to 90 per cent.

The Otway Project is an ongoing field laboratory for CO₂ storage research. It provides technical information on geosequestration processes, technologies and monitoring and verification regimes and is informing public policy and industry decision-makers while also providing assurance to the community.

Stage 2 of the project is focussing on CO₂ storage in saline formations – deep porous rocks containing formation water. Saline formations are very common worldwide and have the potential to store many years’ worth of CO₂ emissions. Stage 2 is the focus of this video.

The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is one of the world’s leading collaborative research organisations focused on CCS R&D.

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Residual gas trapping occurs when a small amount of CO₂ becomes disconnected or ‘snaps off’ from the CO₂ plume as the CO₂ moves through the porous rock. The CO₂ is stored in the pores in tiny bubbles, trapped by surface tension. The CO₂ can’t move out of the pore space and remains fixed underground.

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CO2CRC, a non-profit research collaboration, is conducting research into new ways of capturing carbon dioxide from power stations that will reduce the cost and make it easier for industry to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This video explains promising technologies and shows the research in action in Australian industrial demonstration projects.

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