A comprehensive framework for feasibility of CCUS deployment: A meta-review of literature on factors impacting CCUS deployment. (May 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Storrs, Kasper; Lyhne, Ivar; Drustrup, Rikke
• Is Part Of: International journal of greenhouse gas control. Volume 125(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-05
• Subjects: CCUS -- Socio-technical systems -- Feasibility -- Deployment challenges -- Techno-economic assessment -- Sustainability; Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Air -- Purification -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Gaz à effet de serre -- Périodiques; Gaz à effet de serre -- Réduction -- Périodiques; Air -- Purification -- Technological innovations; Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects; Periodicals; 363.73874605
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103878
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-5836

Abstract

Highlights: 22 reviews of CCUS literature are reviewed for CCUS challenges. The challenges are grouped into 18 factors in a framework of 7 overall categories. Technical and economic challenges are most widely presented. Key social aspects appear underrepresented in the meta-review. Abstract: Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) has gained prominence as one of a suite of technologies needed for mitigating the urgent threat posed by climate change. Despite the significance of CCUS technologies to a multitude of climate mitigation scenarios, research has identified a series of challenges to deployment, ranging from cost overruns and technical failures to public opposition. Research has widely documented the range of techno-economic challenges impacting the feasibility of individual technologies. However, a growing body of research calls for the feasibility of CCUS to be assessed more holistically, with greater focus on systemic, societal and other non-technical issues. Through a meta-review of 22 recent multidisciplinary review papers on CCUS, we identify and explore a comprehensive set of challenges impacting CCUS deployment. The results show a continued focus on the techno-economic dimensions within literature. However, the meta-review also unfolds a series of issues receiving less attention in literature, from organisational and environmental challenges to issues of legitimacy. Overall, this paper contributes to a broader understanding of the critical challenges facing CCUS projects in the coming decade and provides a framework for a more holistic assessment of climate mitigation technologies such as CCUS.