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Carbon sequestration

January 31, 2023

This article is about storing carbon for a long time so that it is not in the atmosphere. For removing carbon dioxide from point sources before it enters the atmosphere, see Carbon capture and storage. For removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, see Carbon dioxide removal.

Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.[2]: 2248  Carbon dioxide (CO
2) is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical, and physical processes.[3] These changes can be accelerated through changes in land use and agricultural practices, such as converting crop land into land for non-crop fast growing plants.[4] Artificial processes have been devised to produce similar effects,[3] including large-scale, artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO
2 using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks, bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, biochar, enhanced weathering, direct air capture and water capture when combined with storage.[5]

Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry, such as a chemical plant[1]

Forests, kelp beds, and other forms of plant life absorb carbon dioxide from the air as they grow, and bind it into biomass. However, these biological stores are considered volatile carbon sinks as the long-term sequestration cannot be guaranteed. For example, natural events, such as wildfires or disease, economic pressures and changing political priorities can result in the sequestered carbon being released back into the atmosphere.[6] Carbon dioxide that has been removed from the atmosphere can also be stored in the Earth's crust by injecting it into the subsurface, or in the form of insoluble carbonate salts (mineral sequestration). These methods are considered non-volatile because they remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it indefinitely and presumably for a considerable duration (thousands to millions of years).

Description

 
Global proposed vs. implemented annual CO2 sequestration. More than 75% of proposed gas processing projects have been implemented, with corresponding figures for other industrial projects and power plant projects being about 60% and 10%, respectively.[7]

Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO
2)[4] and may refer specifically to:

Carbon dioxide may be captured as a pure by-product in processes related to petroleum refining or from flue gases from power generation.[9] CO
2 sequestration includes the storage part of carbon capture and storage, which refers to large-scale, artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO
2 using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks.

Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change. It has been proposed as a way to slow the atmospheric and marine accumulation of greenhouse gases, which are released by burning fossil fuels and industrial livestock production.[10]

Carbon dioxide is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical or physical processes. Some artificial sequestration techniques exploit these natural processes,[3] while some use entirely artificial processes.

There are three ways that this sequestration can be carried out: post-combustion capture, pre-combustion capture, and oxy-combustion.[11] A wide variety of separation techniques are being pursued, including gas phase separation, absorption into a liquid, and adsorption on a solid, as well as hybrid processes, such as adsorption/membrane systems.[12] These above processes basically capture carbon emitting from power plants, factories, fuel burning industries, and new generation livestock production facilities as they transition into restorative farming techniques to reduce carbon emissions.

In terms of carbon retention on forest land, it is better to avoid deforestation than to remove trees and subsequently reforest, as deforestation leads to irreversible effects e.g. biodiversity loss and soil degradation.[13] Additionally, the effects of af- or reforestation will be farther in the future compared to keeping existing forests intact.[14] It takes much longer − several decades − for reforested areas to return to the same carbon sequestration levels found in mature tropical forests.[15] Mackey and Dooley consider "the protection and recovery of carbon-rich and long-lived ecosystems, especially natural forests" "the major climate solution".[16] The global annual gross loss of trees is estimated to be approximately 15 billion and the global number of trees has decreased by ca 46% since the beginning of human civilization.[17]

Biological processes on land

According to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, land-use changes that enhance natural carbon capture have the potential to capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide each year. These include the conservation, management, and restoration of ecosystems such as forests, peatlands, wetlands, and grasslands, in addition to carbon sequestration methods in agriculture.[18]

Biosequestration

 
An oceanic phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina. Encouraging such blooms with iron fertilization could lock up carbon on the seabed.

Biosequestration is the capture and storage of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by continual or enhanced biological processes. This form of carbon sequestration occurs through increased rates of photosynthesis via land-use practices such as reforestation and sustainable forest management.[19][20]

Peatland

Peat bogs act as a sink for carbon because they accumulate partially decayed biomass that would otherwise continue to decay completely. There is a variance on how much the peatlands act as a carbon sink or carbon source that can be linked to varying climates in different areas of the world and different times of the year.[21] By creating new bogs, or enhancing existing ones, the amount of carbon that is sequestered by bogs would increase.[22]

Forestry

Afforestation is the establishment of a forest in an area where there was no previous tree cover. Proforestation is the practice of growing an existing forest intact toward its full ecological potential.[23] Reforestation is the replanting of trees on marginal crop and pasture lands to incorporate carbon from atmospheric CO
2 into biomass.[24][25] For this carbon sequestration process to succeed the carbon must not return to the atmosphere from mass burning or rotting when the trees die.[26] To this end, land allotted to the trees must not be converted to other uses and management of the frequency of disturbances might be necessary in order to avoid extreme events. Alternatively, the wood from them must itself be sequestered, e.g., via biochar, bio-energy with carbon storage (BECS), landfill or 'stored' by use in construction. Short of growth in perpetuity, however, reforestation with long-lived trees (>100 years) will sequester carbon for substantial periods and be released gradually, minimizing carbon's climate impact during the 21st century. Earth offers enough room to plant an additional 1.2 trillion trees.[17] Planting and protecting them would offset some 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 205 billion tons of carbon.[27] This approach is supported by the Trillion Tree Campaign. Restoring all degraded forests world-wide would capture about 205 billion tons of carbon in total, which is about two-thirds of all carbon emissions.[28][29]

During a 30-year period to 2050 if all new construction globally utilized 90% wood products, largely via adoption of mass timber in low rise construction, this could sequester 700 million net tons of carbon per year,[30][31] thus negating approximately 2% of annual carbon emissions as of 2019.[32] This is in addition to the elimination of carbon emissions from the displaced construction material such as steel or concrete, which are carbon-intense to produce.

Urban forestry

Urban forestry increases the amount of carbon taken up in cities by adding new tree sites and the sequestration of carbon occurs over the lifetime of the tree.[33] It is generally practiced and maintained on smaller scales, like in cities. The results of urban forestry can have different results depending on the type of vegetation that is being used, so it can function as a sink but can also function as a source of emissions.[34] In hot areas of the world, trees have an important cooling effect through shade and transpiration. This can save on the need for air conditioning which in turn can reduce GHG emissions.[34]

Wetlands

Wetland restoration involves restoring a wetland's natural biological, geological, and chemical functions through re-establishment or rehabilitation.[35] It has also been proposed as a potential climate change mitigation strategy, with carbon sequestered this way being known as blue carbon.[36] Wetland soil, particularly in coastal wetlands such as mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marshes,[36] is an important carbon reservoir; 20–30% of the world's soil carbon is found in wetlands, while only 5–8% of the world's land is composed of wetlands.[37] Studies have shown that restored wetlands can become productive CO2 sinks[38][39][40] and many restoration projects have been enacted in the US and around the world.[41][42] Aside from climate benefits, wetland restoration and conservation can help preserve biodiversity, improve water quality, and aid with flood control.[43]

As with forests, for the sequestration process to succeed, the wetland must remain undisturbed. If it is disturbed somehow, the carbon stored in the plants and sediments will be released back into the atmosphere and the ecosystem will no longer function as a carbon sink.[44] Additionally, some wetlands can release non-CO2 greenhouse gases, such as methane[45] and nitrous oxide[46] which could offset potential climate benefits. The amounts of carbon sequestered via blue carbon by wetlands can also be difficult to measure.[43]

Agriculture

Compared to natural vegetation, cropland soils are depleted in soil organic carbon (SOC). When a soil is converted from natural land or semi-natural land, such as forests, woodlands, grasslands, steppes and savannas, the SOC content in the soil reduces by about 30–40%.[47] This loss is due to the removal of plant material containing carbon, in terms of harvests. When the land use changes, the carbon in the soil will either increase or decrease, this change will continue until the soil reaches a new equilibrium. Deviations from this equilibrium can also be affected by variated climate.[48] The decreasing of SOC content can be counteracted by increasing the carbon input. This can be done with several strategies, e.g. leave harvest residues on the field, use manure as fertiliser or include perennial crops in the rotation. Perennial crops have a larger below ground biomass fraction, which increases the SOC content.[47] Perennial crops reduce the need for tillage and thus help mitigate soil erosion, and may help increase soil organic matter. Globally, soils are estimated to contain >8,580 gigatons of organic carbon, about ten times the amount in the atmosphere and much more than in vegetation.[49] Researchers have found that rising temperatures can lead to population booms in soil microbes, converting stored carbon into carbon dioxide. In laboratory experiments heating soil, fungi-rich soils released less carbon dioxide than other soils.[50]

Modification of agricultural practices is a recognized method of carbon sequestration as soil can act as an effective carbon sink offsetting as much as 20% of 2010 carbon dioxide emissions annually.[51] (See No-till farming). Restoration of organic farming and earthworms may entirely offset CO2 annual carbon excess of 4 Gt per year and drawdown the residual atmospheric excess.[52] (See Compost).

Carbon emission reduction methods in agriculture can be grouped into two categories: reducing and/or displacing emissions and enhancing carbon removal from the atmosphere. Some of these reductions involve increasing the efficiency of farm operations (e.g. more fuel-efficient equipment) while some involve interruptions in the natural carbon cycle. Also, some effective techniques (such as the elimination of stubble burning[53]) can negatively impact other environmental concerns (increased herbicide use to control weeds not destroyed by burning).

As enforcement of forest protection may not sufficiently address the drivers behind deforestation – the largest of which being the production of beef in the case of the Amazon rainforest[54] – it may also need policies. These could effectively ban and/or progressively discourage deforestation-associated trade via e.g. product information requirements, satellite monitoring like the Global Forest Watch, related eco-tariffs, and product certifications.[55][56][57]

Carbon farming

This section is an excerpt from Carbon farming.[edit]

Carbon farming is a name for a variety of agricultural methods aimed at sequestering atmospheric carbon into the soil and in crop roots, wood and leaves. The aim of carbon farming is to increase the rate at which carbon is sequestered into soil and plant material with the goal of creating a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere.[58] Increasing a soil's organic matter content can aid plant growth, increase total carbon content, improve soil water retention capacity[59] and reduce fertilizer use.[60] As of 2016, variants of carbon farming reached hundreds of millions of hectares globally, of the nearly 5 billion hectares (1.2×1010 acres) of world farmland.[61] In addition to agricultural activities, forests management is also a tool that is used in carbon farming.[62] The practice of carbon farming is often done by individual land owners who are given incentive to use and to integrate methods that will sequester carbon through policies created by governments.[63] Carbon farming methods will typically have a cost, meaning farmers and land-owners need a way to profit from the use of carbon farming, thus requiring government programs.[63]

Land management techniques that can be combined with farming include planting/restoring forests, burying biochar produced by anaerobically converted biomass and restoring wetlands (such as marshes and peatlands).[64]

Bamboo farming

Main article: bamboo cultivation

Although a bamboo forest stores less total carbon than a mature forest of trees, a bamboo plantation sequesters carbon at a much faster rate than a mature forest or a tree plantation. Therefore, the farming of bamboo timber may have significant carbon sequestration potential.[65]

Deep soil

On a global basis it is estimated that soil contains about 2,500 gigatons of carbon. This is greater than 3-fold the carbon found in the atmosphere and 4-fold of that found in living plants and animals.[66] About 70% of the global soil organic carbon in non-permafrost areas is found in the deeper soil within the upper 1 meter and stabilized by mineral-organic associations.[67]

Reducing emissions

Increasing yields and efficiency generally reduces emissions as well, since more food results from the same or less effort. Techniques include more accurate use of fertilizers, less soil disturbance, better irrigation, and crop strains bred for locally beneficial traits and increased yields.

Replacing more energy intensive farming operations can also reduce emissions. Reduced or no-till farming requires less machine use and burns correspondingly less fuel per acre. However, no-till usually increases use of weed-control chemicals and the residue now left on the soil surface is more likely to release its CO
2 to the atmosphere as it decays, reducing the net carbon reduction.[citation needed]

In practice, most farming operations that incorporate post-harvest crop residues, wastes and byproducts back into the soil provide a carbon storage benefit.[citation needed] This is particularly the case for practices such as field burning of stubble – rather than releasing almost all of the stored CO
2 to the atmosphere, tillage incorporates the biomass back into the soil.[citation needed]

Enhancing carbon removal

All crops absorb CO
2 during growth and release it after harvest. The goal of agricultural carbon removal is to use the crop and its relation to the carbon cycle to permanently sequester carbon within the soil. This is done by selecting farming methods that return biomass to the soil and enhance the conditions in which the carbon within the plants will be reduced to its elemental nature and stored in a stable state. Methods for accomplishing this include:

  • Use cover crops such as grasses and weeds as temporary cover between planting seasons
  • Concentrate livestock in small paddocks for days at a time so they graze lightly but evenly. This encourages roots to grow deeper into the soil. Stock also till the soil with their hooves, grinding old grass and manures into the soil.[68]
  • Cover bare paddocks with hay or dead vegetation. This protects soil from the sun and allows the soil to hold more water and be more attractive to carbon-capturing microbes.[68]
  • Restore degraded, marginal, and abandoned land, which slows carbon release while returning the land to agriculture or other use.[69] Degraded land with low soil carbon pool have particularly high potential to store soil C which can be farther enhanced by proper selection of vegetation.[70][71]

Agricultural sequestration practices may have positive effects on soil, air, and water quality, be beneficial to wildlife, and expand food production. On degraded croplands, an increase of 1 ton of soil carbon pool may increase crop yield by 20 to 40 kilograms per hectare of wheat, 10 to 20 kg/ ha for maize, and 0.5 to 1 kg/ha for cowpeas.[citation needed]

The effects of soil sequestration can be reversed. If the soil is disrupted or intensive tillage practices are used, the soil becomes a net source of greenhouse gases. Typically after several decades of sequestration, soil becomes saturated and ceases to absorb carbon. This implies that there is a global limit to the amount of carbon that soil can hold.[72]

Many factors affect the costs of carbon sequestration including soil quality, transaction costs and various externalities such as leakage and unforeseen environmental damage. Because reduction of atmospheric CO
2 is a long-term concern, farmers can be reluctant to adopt more expensive agricultural techniques when there is not a clear crop, soil, or economic benefit. Governments such as Australia and New Zealand are considering allowing farmers to sell carbon credits once they document that they have sufficiently increased soil carbon content.[68][73][74][75][76][77]

Physical processes

 
Biochar can be landfilled, used as a soil improver or burned using carbon capture and storage.

Biomass-related

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

Main article: Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) refers to biomass in power stations and boilers that use carbon capture and storage.[78][79] The carbon sequestered by the biomass would be captured and stored, thus removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[80]

Burial

Burying biomass (such as trees)[81] directly, mimics the natural processes that created fossil fuels.[82]

Biochar burial

Main article: Biochar

Biochar is charcoal created by pyrolysis of biomass waste. The resulting material is added to a landfill or used as a soil improver to create terra preta.[83][84] Addition of pyrogenic organic carbon (biochar) is a novel strategy to increase the soil-C stock for the long-term and to mitigate global-warming by offsetting the atmospheric C (up to 9.5 Gigatons C annually).[85]

In the soil, the carbon is unavailable for oxidation to CO
2 and consequential atmospheric release. This is one technique advocated by scientist James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis.[86] According to Simon Shackley, "people are talking more about something in the range of one to two billion tonnes a year."[87] However concerns have been raised about Biochar potentially accelerating release of the carbon already present in the soil.[88]

The mechanisms related to biochar are referred to as bio-energy with carbon storage, BECS.

Geological sequestration

Main article: Carbon capture and storage

Geological sequestration refers to the storage of CO2 underground in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, saline formations, or deep, un-minable coal beds.

Once CO2 is captured from a point source, such as a cement factory,[89] it would be compressed to ≈100 bar so that it would be a supercritical fluid. In this form, the CO2 would be easy to transport via pipeline to the place of storage. The CO2 would then be injected deep underground, typically around 1 km, where it would be stable for hundreds to millions of years.[90] At these storage conditions, the density of supercritical CO2 is 600 to 800 kg / m3.[91]

The important parameters in determining a good site for carbon storage are: rock porosity, rock permeability, absence of faults, and geometry of rock layers. The medium in which the CO2 is to be stored ideally has a high porosity and permeability, such as sandstone or limestone. Sandstone can have a permeability ranging from 1 to 10−5 Darcy, and can have a porosity as high as ≈30%. The porous rock must be capped by a layer of low permeability which acts as a seal, or caprock, for the CO2. Shale is an example of a very good caprock, with a permeability of 10−5 to 10−9 Darcy. Once injected, the CO2 plume will rise via buoyant forces, since it is less dense than its surroundings. Once it encounters a caprock, it will spread laterally until it encounters a gap. If there are fault planes near the injection zone, there is a possibility the CO2 could migrate along the fault to the surface, leaking into the atmosphere, which would be potentially dangerous to life in the surrounding area. Another danger related to carbon sequestration is induced seismicity. If the injection of CO2 creates pressures that are too high underground, the formation will fracture, potentially causing an earthquake.[92]

While trapped in a rock formation, CO2 can be in the supercritical fluid phase or dissolve in groundwater/brine. It can also react with minerals in the geologic formation to precipitate carbonates. See CarbFix.

Worldwide storage capacity in oil and gas reservoirs is estimated to be 675–900 Gt CO2, and in un-minable coal seams is estimated to be 15–200 Gt CO2. Deep saline formations have the largest capacity, which is estimated to be 1,000–10,000 Gt CO2.[91] In the US, there is estimated to be at least 2,600 Gt and at most 22,000 Gt total CO2 storage capacity.[93]

There are a number of large-scale carbon capture and sequestration projects that have demonstrated the viability and safety of this method of carbon storage, which are summarized here [94] by the Global CCS Institute. The dominant monitoring technique is seismic imaging, where vibrations are generated that propagate through the subsurface. The geologic structure can be imaged from the refracted/reflected waves.[92]

The first large-scale CO
2 sequestration project which began in 1996 is called Sleipner, and is located in the North Sea where Norway's StatoilHydro strips carbon dioxide from natural gas with amine solvents and disposed of this carbon dioxide in a deep saline aquifer. In 2000, a coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plant in Beulah, North Dakota, became the world's first coal-using plant to capture and store carbon dioxide, at the Weyburn-Midale Carbon Dioxide Project.[95][needs update] Several other sequestration projects have followed. The Energy Impact Center launched the OPEN100 project in February 2020, which is the world's first open-source blueprint for the design, construction and financing of a small, standard, pressurized water reactor.[96] In September 2020, the US Department of Energy awarded $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies.[97]

CO
2 has been used extensively in enhanced crude oil recovery operations in the United States beginning in 1972.[10] There are in excess of 10,000 wells that inject CO
2 in the state of Texas alone. The gas comes in part from anthropogenic sources, but is principally from large naturally occurring geologic formations of CO
2. It is transported to the oil-producing fields through a large network of over 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) of CO
2 pipelines. The use of CO
2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods in heavy oil reservoirs in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) has also been proposed.[98] However, transport cost remains an important hurdle. An extensive CO
2 pipeline system does not yet exist in the WCSB. Athabasca oil sands mining that produces CO
2 is hundreds of kilometers north of the subsurface Heavy crude oil reservoirs that could most benefit from CO
2 injection.

Chemical processes

Developed in the Netherlands, an electrocatalysis by a copper complex helps reduce carbon dioxide to oxalic acid;[99] This conversion uses carbon dioxide as a feedstock to generate oxalic acid.

Mineral carbonation

Carbon, in the form of CO
2 can be removed from the atmosphere by chemical processes, and stored in stable carbonate mineral forms. This process (CO
2-to-stone) is known as "carbon sequestration by mineral carbonation" or mineral sequestration. The process involves reacting carbon dioxide with abundantly available metal oxides – either magnesium oxide (MgO) or calcium oxide (CaO) – to form stable carbonates. These reactions are exothermic and occur naturally (e.g., the weathering of rock over geologic time periods).[100][101]

CaO + CO
2 → CaCO
3
MgO + CO
2 → MgCO
3

Calcium and magnesium are found in nature typically as calcium and magnesium silicates (such as forsterite and serpentinite) and not as binary oxides. For forsterite and serpentine the reactions are:

Mg
2SiO
4 + 2 CO
2 → 2 MgCO
3 + SiO
2
Mg
3Si
2O
5(OH)
4+ 3 CO
2 → 3 MgCO
3 + 2 SiO
2 + 2 H
2O

The following table lists principal metal oxides of Earth's crust. Theoretically up to 22% of this mineral mass is able to form carbonates.

Earthen Oxide Percent of Crust Carbonate Enthalpy change
(kJ/mol)
SiO
2 		59.71
Al
2O
3 		15.41
CaO 4.90 CaCO
3 		−179
MgO 4.36 MgCO
3 		−117
Na
2O 		3.55 Na
2CO
3
FeO 3.52 FeCO
3
K
2O 		2.80 K
2CO
3
Fe
2O
3 		2.63 FeCO
3
21.76 All Carbonates

These reactions are slightly more favorable at low temperatures.[100] This process occurs naturally over geologic time frames and is responsible for much of the Earth's surface limestone. The reaction rate can be made faster however, by reacting at higher temperatures and/or pressures, although this method requires some additional energy. Alternatively, the mineral could be milled to increase its surface area, and exposed to water and constant abrasion to remove the inert Silica as could be achieved naturally by dumping Olivine in the high energy surf of beaches.[102] Experiments suggest the weathering process is reasonably quick (one year) given porous basaltic rocks.[103][104]

CO
2 naturally reacts with peridotite rock in surface exposures of ophiolites, notably in Oman. It has been suggested that this process can be enhanced to carry out natural mineralisation of CO
2.[105][106]

When CO
2 is dissolved in water and injected into hot basaltic rocks underground it has been shown that the CO
2 reacts with the basalt to form solid carbonate minerals.[107] A test plant in Iceland started up in October 2017, extracting up to 50 tons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere and storing it underground in basaltic rock.[108]

Researchers from British Columbia, developed a low cost process for the production of magnesite, also known as magnesium carbonate, which can sequester CO2 from the air, or at the point of air pollution, e.g. at a power plant. The crystals are naturally occurring, but accumulation is usually very slow.[109]

Concrete is a promising destination of captured carbon dioxide. Several advantages that concrete offers include, but not limited to: a source of plenty of calcium due to its substantial production all over the world; a thermodynamically stable condition for carbon dioxide to be stored as calcium carbonates; and its long-term capability of storing carbon dioxide as a material widely used in infrastructure.[110][111] Demolished concrete waste or recycled concrete could be also used aside from newly produced concrete.[112] Studies at HeidelbergCement show that carbon sequestration can turn those demolished and recycled concrete into a supplementary cementitious material, which acts as a secondary binder in tandem with Portland cement, for a new butch of concrete production.[113][114]

Electrochemistry

Another method uses a liquid metal catalyst and an electrolyte liquid into which CO2 is dissolved. The CO2 then converts into solid flakes of carbon. This method is done at room temperature.[115][116][117] In 2022, the team updated its work to operate at a lower temperature, and operate more quickly and with fewer steps.[118]

Industrial use

Traditional cement manufacture releases large amounts of carbon dioxide, but newly developed cement types from Novacem[119] can absorb CO
2 from ambient air during hardening.[120] A similar technique was pioneered by TecEco, which has been producing "EcoCement" since 2002.[121] Canadian startup CarbonCure Technologies takes captured CO2 and injects it into concrete as it is being mixed.[122] Carbon Upcycling UCLA is another company that uses CO
2 in concrete. Their concrete product is called CO2NCRETE, a concrete that hardens faster and is more eco-friendly than traditional concrete.[123]

In Estonia, oil shale ash, generated by power stations could be used as sorbents for CO
2 mineral sequestration. The amount of CO
2 captured averaged 60 to 65% of the carbonaceous CO
2 and 10 to 11% of the total CO
2 emissions.[124]

Chemical scrubbers

Main articles: Carbon capture and storage and Carbon air capture

Various carbon dioxide scrubbing processes have been proposed to remove CO
2 from the air, usually using a variant of the Kraft process. Carbon dioxide scrubbing variants exist based on potassium carbonate, which can be used to create liquid fuels, or on sodium hydroxide.[125][126][127] These notably include artificial trees proposed by Klaus Lackner to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using chemical scrubbers.[128][129]

Sequestration techniques in oceans

Seaweed farming

Further information: Seaweed farming § Climate change mitigation

Seaweed grow in shallow and coastal areas, and capture significant amounts of carbon that can be transported to the deep ocean by oceanic mechanisms; seaweed reaching the deep ocean sequester carbon and prevent it from exchanging with the atmosphere over millennia.[130] Growing seaweed offshore with the purpose of sinking the seaweed in the depths of the sea to sequester carbon is under research.[131] In addition, seaweed grows very fast and can theoretically be harvested and processed to generate biomethane, via anaerobic digestion to generate electricity, via cogeneration/CHP or as a replacement for natural gas. One study suggested that if seaweed farms covered 9% of the ocean they could produce enough biomethane to supply Earth's equivalent demand for fossil fuel energy, remove 53 gigatonnes of CO2 per year from the atmosphere and sustainably produce 200 kg per year of fish, per person, for 10 billion people.[132] Ideal species for such farming and conversion include Laminaria digitata, Fucus serratus and Saccharina latissima.[133]

Ocean fertilisation

This section is an excerpt from Ocean fertilization.[edit]

Ocean fertilization or ocean nourishment is a type of technology for carbon dioxide removal from the ocean based on the purposeful introduction of plant nutrients to the upper ocean to increase marine food production and to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[134][135] Ocean nutrient fertilization, for example iron fertilization, of the ocean could stimulate photosynthesis in phytoplankton. The phytoplankton would convert the ocean's dissolved carbon dioxide into carbohydrate and oxygen gas, some of which would sink into the deeper ocean before oxidizing. More than a dozen open-sea experiments confirmed that adding iron to the ocean increases photosynthesis in phytoplankton by up to 30 times.[136]

This is one of the more well-researched carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches, however this approach would only sequester carbon on a timescale of 10-100 years dependent on ocean mixing times. While surface ocean acidity may decrease as a result of nutrient fertilization, when the sinking organic matter remineralizes, the deep ocean acidity will increase. A 2021 report on CDR indicates that there is medium-high confidence that the technique could be efficient and scalable at low cost, with medium environmental risks.[137] One of the key risks of nutrient fertilization is nutrient robbing, a process by which excess nutrients used in one location for enhanced primary productivity, as in a fertilization context, are then unavailable for normal productivity downstream. This could result in ecosystem impacts far outside the original site of fertilization.[137]

A number of techniques, including fertilization by the micronutrient iron (called iron fertilization) or with nitrogen and phosphorus (both macronutrients), have been proposed. But research in the early 2020s suggested that it could only permanently sequester a small amount of carbon.[138] Therefore, there is no major future in its role to sequester carbon.

Artificial upwelling

Artificial upwelling or downwelling is an approach that would change the mixing layers of the ocean. Encouraging various ocean layers to mix can move nutrients and dissolved gases around, offering avenues for geoengineering.[139] Mixing may be achieved by placing large vertical pipes in the oceans to pump nutrient rich water to the surface, triggering blooms of algae, which store carbon when they grow and export carbon when they die.[139][140][141] This produces results somewhat similar to iron fertilization. One side-effect is a short-term rise in CO
2, which limits its attractiveness.[142]

Mixing layers involve transporting the denser and colder deep ocean water to the surface mixed layer. As the ocean temperature decreases with depth, more carbon dioxide and other compounds are able to dissolve in the deeper layers.[143] This can be induced by reversing the oceanic carbon cycle through the use of large vertical pipes serving as ocean pumps,[144] or a mixer array.[145] When the nutrient rich deep ocean water is moved to the surface, algae bloom occurs, resulting in a decrease in carbon dioxide due to carbon intake from phytoplankton and other photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. The transfer of heat between the layers will also cause seawater from the mixed layer to sink and absorb more carbon dioxide. This method has not gained much traction as algae bloom harms marine ecosystems by blocking sunlight and releasing harmful toxins into the ocean.[146] The sudden increase in carbon dioxide on the surface level will also temporarily decrease the pH of the seawater, impairing the growth of coral reefs. The production of carbonic acid through the dissolution of carbon dioxide in seawater hinders marine biogenic calcification and causes major disruptions to the oceanic food chain.[147]

Basalt storage

Carbon dioxide sequestration in basalt involves the injecting of CO
2 into deep-sea formations. The CO
2 first mixes with seawater and then reacts with the basalt, both of which are alkaline-rich elements. This reaction results in the release of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions forming stable carbonate minerals.[148]

Underwater basalt offers a good alternative to other forms of oceanic carbon storage because it has a number of trapping measures to ensure added protection against leakage. These measures include "geochemical, sediment, gravitational and hydrate formation." Because CO
2 hydrate is denser than CO
2 in seawater, the risk of leakage is minimal. Injecting the CO
2 at depths greater than 2,700 meters (8,900 ft) ensures that the CO
2 has a greater density than seawater, causing it to sink.[149]

One possible injection site is Juan de Fuca plate. Researchers at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory found that this plate at the western coast of the United States has a possible storage capacity of 208 gigatons. This could cover the entire current U.S. carbon emissions for over 100 years.[149]

This process is undergoing tests as part of the CarbFix project, resulting in 95% of the injected 250 tonnes of CO2 to solidify into calcite in two years, using 25 tonnes of water per tonne of CO2.[104][150]

Mineralization and deep sea sediments

See also: Pelagic sediment

Similar to mineralization processes that takes place within rocks, mineralization can also occur under the sea. The rate of dissolution of carbon dioxide from atmosphere to oceanic regions relies upon the circulation period of the ocean and buffering ability of subducting surface water.[151] Researchers have demonstrated that the carbon dioxide marine storage at several kilometers deep could be viable for up to 500 years, but is dependent on injection site and conditions. Several studies have shown that although it may fix carbon dioxide effect, carbon dioxide may be released back to the atmosphere over time. However, this is unlikely for at least a few more centuries. The neutralization of CaCO3, or balancing the concentration of CaCO3 on the seafloor, land and in the ocean, can be measured on a timescale of thousands of years. More specifically, the predicted time is 1700 years for ocean and approximately 5000 to 6000 years for land.[152][153] Further, the dissolution time for CaCO3 can be improved by injecting near or downstream of the storage site.[154]

In addition to carbon mineralization, another proposal is deep sea sediment injection. It injects liquid carbon dioxide at least 3000 m below the surface directly into ocean sediments to generate carbon dioxide hydrate. Two regions are defined for exploration: the negative buoyancy zone (NBZ), which is the region between liquid carbon dioxide denser than surrounding water and where liquid carbon dioxide has neutral buoyancy, and hydrate formation zone (HFZ), which typically has low temperatures and high pressures. Several research models have shown that the optimal depth of injection requires consideration of intrinsic permeability and any changes in liquid carbon dioxide permeability for optimal storage. The formation of hydrates decreases liquid carbon dioxide permeability, and injection below HFZ is more energetically favored than within the HFZ. If the NBZ is a greater column of water than the HFZ, the injection should happen below the HFZ and directly to the NBZ. In this case, liquid carbon dioxide will sink to the NBZ and be stored below the buoyancy and hydrate cap. Carbon dioxide leakage can occur if there is dissolution into pore fluid or via molecular diffusion. However, this occurs over thousands of years.[154][155][156]

Adding bases to neutralize acids

Further information: Ocean acidification § Carbon removal technologies which add alkalinity

Carbon dioxide forms carbonic acid when dissolved in water, so ocean acidification is a significant consequence of elevated carbon dioxide levels, and limits the rate at which it can be absorbed into the ocean (the solubility pump). A variety of different bases have been suggested that could neutralize the acid and thus increase CO
2 absorption.[157][158][159][160][161] For example, adding crushed limestone to oceans enhances the absorption of carbon dioxide.[162] Another approach is to add sodium hydroxide to oceans which is produced by electrolysis of salt water or brine, while eliminating the waste hydrochloric acid by reaction with a volcanic silicate rock such as enstatite, effectively increasing the rate of natural weathering of these rocks to restore ocean pH.[163][164][165]

Single-step carbon sequestration and storage

Single-step carbon sequestration and storage is a saline water-based mineralization technology extracting carbon dioxide from seawater and storing it in the form of solid minerals.[166]

Abandoned ideas

Direct deep-sea carbon dioxide injection

Main article: Direct deep-sea carbon dioxide injection

It was once suggested that CO2 could be stored in the oceans by direct injection into the deep ocean and storing it there for some centuries. At the time, this proposal was called "ocean storage" but more precisely it was known as "direct deep-sea carbon dioxide injection". However, the interest in this avenue of carbon storage has much reduced since about 2001 because of concerns about the unknown impacts on marine life[167]: 279 , high costs and concerns about its stability or permanence.[90] The "IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage" in 2005 did include this technology as an option.[167]: 279  However, the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in 2014 no longer mentioned the term "ocean storage" in its report on climate change mitigation methods.[168] The most recent IPCC Sixth Assessment Report in 2022 also no longer includes any mention of "ocean storage" in its "Carbon Dioxide Removal taxonomy".[169]: 12–37 

Cost

Cost of the sequestration (not including capture and transport) varies but is below US$10 per tonne in some cases where onshore storage is available.[170] For example Carbfix cost is around US$25 per tonne of CO2.[171] A 2020 report estimated sequestration in forests (so including capture) at US$35 for small quantities to US$280 per tonne for 10% of the total required to keep to 1.5 C warming.[172] But there is risk of forest fires releasing the carbon.[173]

Researchers have raised the concern that the use of carbon offsets – such as by maintaining forests, reforestation or carbon capture – as well as renewable energy certificates[174] allow polluting companies a business-as-usual approach to continue releasing greenhouse gases[175][176] and for being, inappropriately trusted, untried techno-fixes.[177] This also includes the 2022 IPCC report on climate change criticized for containing "a lot of pipe dreams", relying on large negative emissions technologies.[178] A review of studies by the Stanford Solutions Project concluded that relying on Carbon capture and storage/utilization (CCS/U) is a dangerous distraction, with it (in most and large-scale cases) being expensive, increasing air pollution and mining, inefficient and unlikely to be deployable at the scale required in time.[179]

 
Transferring land rights to indigenous inhabitants is argued to efficiently conserve forests.

Applications in climate change policies

United States

Further information: Climate change policy of the United States

Starting in the mid-late 2010s, many pieces of US climate and environment policy have sought to make use of the climate change mitigation potential of carbon sequestration. Many of these policies involve either conservation of carbon sink ecosystems, such as forests and wetlands, or encouraging agricultural and land use practices designed to increase carbon sequestration such as carbon farming or agroforestry, often through financial incentivization for farmers and landowners.

The Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, signed by president Joe Biden on January 27, 2021, includes several mentions of carbon sequestration via conservation and restoration of carbon sink ecosystems, such as wetlands and forests. These include emphasizing the importance of farmers, landowners, and coastal communities in carbon sequestration, directing the Treasury Department to promote conservation of carbon sinks through market based mechanisms, and directing the Department of the Interior to collaborate with other agencies to create a Civilian Climate Corps to increase carbon sequestration in agriculture, among other things.[180]

Several pieces of legislation introduced in the 116th and 117th Congresses, including the Climate Stewardship Act of 2019,[181] the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020,[182] the Healthy Soil, Resilient Farmers Act of 2020,[183] and the Healthy Soils Healthy Climate Act of 2020,[184] have sought to increase carbon sequestration on private and public lands through financial incentivization.

Several state governments, including California, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York, have passed versions of a carbon farming tax credit, which seek to improve soil health and increase carbon sequestration by offering financial assistance and incentives for farmers who practice regenerative agriculture, carbon farming, and other climate change mitigation practices.[185][186][187][188][189] The California Healthy Soils Program is estimated to have resulted in 109,809 metric tons of CO2 being sequestered annually on average.[188]

The White House and USDA are reportedly developing plans to use $30 billion in funds from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for the creation of a carbon bank program, which would involve giving carbon credits to farmers and landowners in return for adopting carbon sequestration practices, which they could then sell in a cap and trade market.[190][191]

Some environmental activists and politicians have criticized carbon capture, and storage or sequestration (CCS) as a false solution to the climate crisis. They cite the role of the fossil fuel industry in origins of the technology and in lobbying for CCS focused legislation and argue that it would allow the industry to "greenwash" itself by funding and engaging in things such as tree planting campaigns without significantly cutting their carbon emissions.[192][193]

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This article is about storing carbon for a long time so that it is not in the atmosphere For removing carbon dioxide from point sources before it enters the atmosphere see Carbon capture and storage For removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere see Carbon dioxide removal Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool 2 2248 Carbon dioxide CO2 is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological chemical and physical processes 3 These changes can be accelerated through changes in land use and agricultural practices such as converting crop land into land for non crop fast growing plants 4 Artificial processes have been devised to produce similar effects 3 including large scale artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO2 using subsurface saline aquifers reservoirs ocean water aging oil fields or other carbon sinks bio energy with carbon capture and storage biochar enhanced weathering direct air capture and water capture when combined with storage 5 Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry such as a chemical plant 1 Forests kelp beds and other forms of plant life absorb carbon dioxide from the air as they grow and bind it into biomass However these biological stores are considered volatile carbon sinks as the long term sequestration cannot be guaranteed For example natural events such as wildfires or disease economic pressures and changing political priorities can result in the sequestered carbon being released back into the atmosphere 6 Carbon dioxide that has been removed from the atmosphere can also be stored in the Earth s crust by injecting it into the subsurface or in the form of insoluble carbonate salts mineral sequestration These methods are considered non volatile because they remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it indefinitely and presumably for a considerable duration thousands to millions of years Contents 1 Description 2 Biological processes on land 2 1 Biosequestration 2 2 Peatland 2 3 Forestry 2 3 1 Urban forestry 2 4 Wetlands 2 5 Agriculture 2 6 Carbon farming 2 6 1 Bamboo farming 2 6 2 Deep soil 2 6 3 Reducing emissions 2 6 4 Enhancing carbon removal 3 Physical processes 3 1 Biomass related 3 1 1 Bio energy with carbon capture and storage 3 1 2 Burial 3 1 3 Biochar burial 3 2 Geological sequestration 4 Chemical processes 4 1 Mineral carbonation 4 2 Electrochemistry 4 3 Industrial use 4 4 Chemical scrubbers 5 Sequestration techniques in oceans 5 1 Seaweed farming 5 2 Ocean fertilisation 5 3 Artificial upwelling 5 4 Basalt storage 5 4 1 Mineralization and deep sea sediments 5 5 Adding bases to neutralize acids 5 5 1 Single step carbon sequestration and storage 5 6 Abandoned ideas 5 6 1 Direct deep sea carbon dioxide injection 6 Cost 7 Applications in climate change policies 7 1 United States 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksDescription Edit Global proposed vs implemented annual CO2 sequestration More than 75 of proposed gas processing projects have been implemented with corresponding figures for other industrial projects and power plant projects being about 60 and 10 respectively 7 Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2 4 and may refer specifically to The process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in a reservoir 8 When carried out deliberately this may also be referred to as carbon dioxide removal which is a form of geoengineering Carbon capture and storage where carbon dioxide is removed from flue gases e g at power stations before being stored in underground reservoirs Natural biogeochemical cycling of carbon between the atmosphere and reservoirs such as by chemical weathering of rocks Carbon dioxide may be captured as a pure by product in processes related to petroleum refining or from flue gases from power generation 9 CO2 sequestration includes the storage part of carbon capture and storage which refers to large scale artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO2 using subsurface saline aquifers reservoirs ocean water aging oil fields or other carbon sinks Carbon sequestration describes long term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change It has been proposed as a way to slow the atmospheric and marine accumulation of greenhouse gases which are released by burning fossil fuels and industrial livestock production 10 Carbon dioxide is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological chemical or physical processes Some artificial sequestration techniques exploit these natural processes 3 while some use entirely artificial processes There are three ways that this sequestration can be carried out post combustion capture pre combustion capture and oxy combustion 11 A wide variety of separation techniques are being pursued including gas phase separation absorption into a liquid and adsorption on a solid as well as hybrid processes such as adsorption membrane systems 12 These above processes basically capture carbon emitting from power plants factories fuel burning industries and new generation livestock production facilities as they transition into restorative farming techniques to reduce carbon emissions In terms of carbon retention on forest land it is better to avoid deforestation than to remove trees and subsequently reforest as deforestation leads to irreversible effects e g biodiversity loss and soil degradation 13 Additionally the effects of af or reforestation will be farther in the future compared to keeping existing forests intact 14 It takes much longer several decades for reforested areas to return to the same carbon sequestration levels found in mature tropical forests 15 Mackey and Dooley consider the protection and recovery of carbon rich and long lived ecosystems especially natural forests the major climate solution 16 The global annual gross loss of trees is estimated to be approximately 15 billion and the global number of trees has decreased by ca 46 since the beginning of human civilization 17 Biological processes on land EditAccording to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report land use changes that enhance natural carbon capture have the potential to capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide each year These include the conservation management and restoration of ecosystems such as forests peatlands wetlands and grasslands in addition to carbon sequestration methods in agriculture 18 Biosequestration Edit An oceanic phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina Encouraging such blooms with iron fertilization could lock up carbon on the seabed Biosequestration is the capture and storage of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by continual or enhanced biological processes This form of carbon sequestration occurs through increased rates of photosynthesis via land use practices such as reforestation and sustainable forest management 19 20 Peatland Edit Peat bogs act as a sink for carbon because they accumulate partially decayed biomass that would otherwise continue to decay completely There is a variance on how much the peatlands act as a carbon sink or carbon source that can be linked to varying climates in different areas of the world and different times of the year 21 By creating new bogs or enhancing existing ones the amount of carbon that is sequestered by bogs would increase 22 Forestry Edit Afforestation is the establishment of a forest in an area where there was no previous tree cover Proforestation is the practice of growing an existing forest intact toward its full ecological potential 23 Reforestation is the replanting of trees on marginal crop and pasture lands to incorporate carbon from atmospheric CO2 into biomass 24 25 For this carbon sequestration process to succeed the carbon must not return to the atmosphere from mass burning or rotting when the trees die 26 To this end land allotted to the trees must not be converted to other uses and management of the frequency of disturbances might be necessary in order to avoid extreme events Alternatively the wood from them must itself be sequestered e g via biochar bio energy with carbon storage BECS landfill or stored by use in construction Short of growth in perpetuity however reforestation with long lived trees gt 100 years will sequester carbon for substantial periods and be released gradually minimizing carbon s climate impact during the 21st century Earth offers enough room to plant an additional 1 2 trillion trees 17 Planting and protecting them would offset some 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 205 billion tons of carbon 27 This approach is supported by the Trillion Tree Campaign Restoring all degraded forests world wide would capture about 205 billion tons of carbon in total which is about two thirds of all carbon emissions 28 29 During a 30 year period to 2050 if all new construction globally utilized 90 wood products largely via adoption of mass timber in low rise construction this could sequester 700 million net tons of carbon per year 30 31 thus negating approximately 2 of annual carbon emissions as of 2019 32 This is in addition to the elimination of carbon emissions from the displaced construction material such as steel or concrete which are carbon intense to produce Urban forestry Edit Urban forestry increases the amount of carbon taken up in cities by adding new tree sites and the sequestration of carbon occurs over the lifetime of the tree 33 It is generally practiced and maintained on smaller scales like in cities The results of urban forestry can have different results depending on the type of vegetation that is being used so it can function as a sink but can also function as a source of emissions 34 In hot areas of the world trees have an important cooling effect through shade and transpiration This can save on the need for air conditioning which in turn can reduce GHG emissions 34 Wetlands Edit Wetland restoration involves restoring a wetland s natural biological geological and chemical functions through re establishment or rehabilitation 35 It has also been proposed as a potential climate change mitigation strategy with carbon sequestered this way being known as blue carbon 36 Wetland soil particularly in coastal wetlands such as mangroves sea grasses and salt marshes 36 is an important carbon reservoir 20 30 of the world s soil carbon is found in wetlands while only 5 8 of the world s land is composed of wetlands 37 Studies have shown that restored wetlands can become productive CO2 sinks 38 39 40 and many restoration projects have been enacted in the US and around the world 41 42 Aside from climate benefits wetland restoration and conservation can help preserve biodiversity improve water quality and aid with flood control 43 As with forests for the sequestration process to succeed the wetland must remain undisturbed If it is disturbed somehow the carbon stored in the plants and sediments will be released back into the atmosphere and the ecosystem will no longer function as a carbon sink 44 Additionally some wetlands can release non CO2 greenhouse gases such as methane 45 and nitrous oxide 46 which could offset potential climate benefits The amounts of carbon sequestered via blue carbon by wetlands can also be difficult to measure 43 Agriculture Edit Compared to natural vegetation cropland soils are depleted in soil organic carbon SOC When a soil is converted from natural land or semi natural land such as forests woodlands grasslands steppes and savannas the SOC content in the soil reduces by about 30 40 47 This loss is due to the removal of plant material containing carbon in terms of harvests When the land use changes the carbon in the soil will either increase or decrease this change will continue until the soil reaches a new equilibrium Deviations from this equilibrium can also be affected by variated climate 48 The decreasing of SOC content can be counteracted by increasing the carbon input This can be done with several strategies e g leave harvest residues on the field use manure as fertiliser or include perennial crops in the rotation Perennial crops have a larger below ground biomass fraction which increases the SOC content 47 Perennial crops reduce the need for tillage and thus help mitigate soil erosion and may help increase soil organic matter Globally soils are estimated to contain gt 8 580 gigatons of organic carbon about ten times the amount in the atmosphere and much more than in vegetation 49 Researchers have found that rising temperatures can lead to population booms in soil microbes converting stored carbon into carbon dioxide In laboratory experiments heating soil fungi rich soils released less carbon dioxide than other soils 50 Modification of agricultural practices is a recognized method of carbon sequestration as soil can act as an effective carbon sink offsetting as much as 20 of 2010 carbon dioxide emissions annually 51 See No till farming Restoration of organic farming and earthworms may entirely offset CO2 annual carbon excess of 4 Gt per year and drawdown the residual atmospheric excess 52 See Compost Carbon emission reduction methods in agriculture can be grouped into two categories reducing and or displacing emissions and enhancing carbon removal from the atmosphere Some of these reductions involve increasing the efficiency of farm operations e g more fuel efficient equipment while some involve interruptions in the natural carbon cycle Also some effective techniques such as the elimination of stubble burning 53 can negatively impact other environmental concerns increased herbicide use to control weeds not destroyed by burning As enforcement of forest protection may not sufficiently address the drivers behind deforestation the largest of which being the production of beef in the case of the Amazon rainforest 54 it may also need policies These could effectively ban and or progressively discourage deforestation associated trade via e g product information requirements satellite monitoring like the Global Forest Watch related eco tariffs and product certifications 55 56 57 Carbon farming Edit This section is an excerpt from Carbon farming edit Carbon farming is a name for a variety of agricultural methods aimed at sequestering atmospheric carbon into the soil and in crop roots wood and leaves The aim of carbon farming is to increase the rate at which carbon is sequestered into soil and plant material with the goal of creating a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere 58 Increasing a soil s organic matter content can aid plant growth increase total carbon content improve soil water retention capacity 59 and reduce fertilizer use 60 As of 2016 variants of carbon farming reached hundreds of millions of hectares globally of the nearly 5 billion hectares 1 2 1010 acres of world farmland 61 In addition to agricultural activities forests management is also a tool that is used in carbon farming 62 The practice of carbon farming is often done by individual land owners who are given incentive to use and to integrate methods that will sequester carbon through policies created by governments 63 Carbon farming methods will typically have a cost meaning farmers and land owners need a way to profit from the use of carbon farming thus requiring government programs 63 Land management techniques that can be combined with farming include planting restoring forests burying biochar produced by anaerobically converted biomass and restoring wetlands such as marshes and peatlands 64 Bamboo farming Edit Main article bamboo cultivation Although a bamboo forest stores less total carbon than a mature forest of trees a bamboo plantation sequesters carbon at a much faster rate than a mature forest or a tree plantation Therefore the farming of bamboo timber may have significant carbon sequestration potential 65 Deep soil Edit On a global basis it is estimated that soil contains about 2 500 gigatons of carbon This is greater than 3 fold the carbon found in the atmosphere and 4 fold of that found in living plants and animals 66 About 70 of the global soil organic carbon in non permafrost areas is found in the deeper soil within the upper 1 meter and stabilized by mineral organic associations 67 Reducing emissions Edit Increasing yields and efficiency generally reduces emissions as well since more food results from the same or less effort Techniques include more accurate use of fertilizers less soil disturbance better irrigation and crop strains bred for locally beneficial traits and increased yields Replacing more energy intensive farming operations can also reduce emissions Reduced or no till farming requires less machine use and burns correspondingly less fuel per acre However no till usually increases use of weed control chemicals and the residue now left on the soil surface is more likely to release its CO2 to the atmosphere as it decays reducing the net carbon reduction citation needed In practice most farming operations that incorporate post harvest crop residues wastes and byproducts back into the soil provide a carbon storage benefit citation needed This is particularly the case for practices such as field burning of stubble rather than releasing almost all of the stored CO2 to the atmosphere tillage incorporates the biomass back into the soil citation needed Enhancing carbon removal Edit All crops absorb CO2 during growth and release it after harvest The goal of agricultural carbon removal is to use the crop and its relation to the carbon cycle to permanently sequester carbon within the soil This is done by selecting farming methods that return biomass to the soil and enhance the conditions in which the carbon within the plants will be reduced to its elemental nature and stored in a stable state Methods for accomplishing this include Use cover crops such as grasses and weeds as temporary cover between planting seasons Concentrate livestock in small paddocks for days at a time so they graze lightly but evenly This encourages roots to grow deeper into the soil Stock also till the soil with their hooves grinding old grass and manures into the soil 68 Cover bare paddocks with hay or dead vegetation This protects soil from the sun and allows the soil to hold more water and be more attractive to carbon capturing microbes 68 Restore degraded marginal and abandoned land which slows carbon release while returning the land to agriculture or other use 69 Degraded land with low soil carbon pool have particularly high potential to store soil C which can be farther enhanced by proper selection of vegetation 70 71 Agricultural sequestration practices may have positive effects on soil air and water quality be beneficial to wildlife and expand food production On degraded croplands an increase of 1 ton of soil carbon pool may increase crop yield by 20 to 40 kilograms per hectare of wheat 10 to 20 kg ha for maize and 0 5 to 1 kg ha for cowpeas citation needed The effects of soil sequestration can be reversed If the soil is disrupted or intensive tillage practices are used the soil becomes a net source of greenhouse gases Typically after several decades of sequestration soil becomes saturated and ceases to absorb carbon This implies that there is a global limit to the amount of carbon that soil can hold 72 Many factors affect the costs of carbon sequestration including soil quality transaction costs and various externalities such as leakage and unforeseen environmental damage Because reduction of atmospheric CO2 is a long term concern farmers can be reluctant to adopt more expensive agricultural techniques when there is not a clear crop soil or economic benefit Governments such as Australia and New Zealand are considering allowing farmers to sell carbon credits once they document that they have sufficiently increased soil carbon content 68 73 74 75 76 77 Physical processes Edit Biochar can be landfilled used as a soil improver or burned using carbon capture and storage Biomass related Edit Bio energy with carbon capture and storage Edit Main article Bio energy with carbon capture and storage Bio energy with carbon capture and storage BECCS refers to biomass in power stations and boilers that use carbon capture and storage 78 79 The carbon sequestered by the biomass would be captured and stored thus removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 80 Burial Edit Burying biomass such as trees 81 directly mimics the natural processes that created fossil fuels 82 Biochar burial Edit Main article Biochar Biochar is charcoal created by pyrolysis of biomass waste The resulting material is added to a landfill or used as a soil improver to create terra preta 83 84 Addition of pyrogenic organic carbon biochar is a novel strategy to increase the soil C stock for the long term and to mitigate global warming by offsetting the atmospheric C up to 9 5 Gigatons C annually 85 In the soil the carbon is unavailable for oxidation to CO2 and consequential atmospheric release This is one technique advocated by scientist James Lovelock creator of the Gaia hypothesis 86 According to Simon Shackley people are talking more about something in the range of one to two billion tonnes a year 87 However concerns have been raised about Biochar potentially accelerating release of the carbon already present in the soil 88 The mechanisms related to biochar are referred to as bio energy with carbon storage BECS Geological sequestration Edit Main article Carbon capture and storage Geological sequestration refers to the storage of CO2 underground in depleted oil and gas reservoirs saline formations or deep un minable coal beds Once CO2 is captured from a point source such as a cement factory 89 it would be compressed to 100 bar so that it would be a supercritical fluid In this form the CO2 would be easy to transport via pipeline to the place of storage The CO2 would then be injected deep underground typically around 1 km where it would be stable for hundreds to millions of years 90 At these storage conditions the density of supercritical CO2 is 600 to 800 kg m3 91 The important parameters in determining a good site for carbon storage are rock porosity rock permeability absence of faults and geometry of rock layers The medium in which the CO2 is to be stored ideally has a high porosity and permeability such as sandstone or limestone Sandstone can have a permeability ranging from 1 to 10 5 Darcy and can have a porosity as high as 30 The porous rock must be capped by a layer of low permeability which acts as a seal or caprock for the CO2 Shale is an example of a very good caprock with a permeability of 10 5 to 10 9 Darcy Once injected the CO2 plume will rise via buoyant forces since it is less dense than its surroundings Once it encounters a caprock it will spread laterally until it encounters a gap If there are fault planes near the injection zone there is a possibility the CO2 could migrate along the fault to the surface leaking into the atmosphere which would be potentially dangerous to life in the surrounding area Another danger related to carbon sequestration is induced seismicity If the injection of CO2 creates pressures that are too high underground the formation will fracture potentially causing an earthquake 92 While trapped in a rock formation CO2 can be in the supercritical fluid phase or dissolve in groundwater brine It can also react with minerals in the geologic formation to precipitate carbonates See CarbFix Worldwide storage capacity in oil and gas reservoirs is estimated to be 675 900 Gt CO2 and in un minable coal seams is estimated to be 15 200 Gt CO2 Deep saline formations have the largest capacity which is estimated to be 1 000 10 000 Gt CO2 91 In the US there is estimated to be at least 2 600 Gt and at most 22 000 Gt total CO2 storage capacity 93 There are a number of large scale carbon capture and sequestration projects that have demonstrated the viability and safety of this method of carbon storage which are summarized here 94 by the Global CCS Institute The dominant monitoring technique is seismic imaging where vibrations are generated that propagate through the subsurface The geologic structure can be imaged from the refracted reflected waves 92 The first large scale CO2 sequestration project which began in 1996 is called Sleipner and is located in the North Sea where Norway s StatoilHydro strips carbon dioxide from natural gas with amine solvents and disposed of this carbon dioxide in a deep saline aquifer In 2000 a coal fueled synthetic natural gas plant in Beulah North Dakota became the world s first coal using plant to capture and store carbon dioxide at the Weyburn Midale Carbon Dioxide Project 95 needs update Several other sequestration projects have followed The Energy Impact Center launched the OPEN100 project in February 2020 which is the world s first open source blueprint for the design construction and financing of a small standard pressurized water reactor 96 In September 2020 the US Department of Energy awarded 72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies 97 CO2 has been used extensively in enhanced crude oil recovery operations in the United States beginning in 1972 10 There are in excess of 10 000 wells that inject CO2 in the state of Texas alone The gas comes in part from anthropogenic sources but is principally from large naturally occurring geologic formations of CO2 It is transported to the oil producing fields through a large network of over 5 000 kilometres 3 100 mi of CO2 pipelines The use of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery EOR methods in heavy oil reservoirs in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin WCSB has also been proposed 98 However transport cost remains an important hurdle An extensive CO2 pipeline system does not yet exist in the WCSB Athabasca oil sands mining that produces CO2 is hundreds of kilometers north of the subsurface Heavy crude oil reservoirs that could most benefit from CO2 injection Chemical processes EditDeveloped in the Netherlands an electrocatalysis by a copper complex helps reduce carbon dioxide to oxalic acid 99 This conversion uses carbon dioxide as a feedstock to generate oxalic acid Mineral carbonation Edit Carbon in the form of CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere by chemical processes and stored in stable carbonate mineral forms This process CO2 to stone is known as carbon sequestration by mineral carbonation or mineral sequestration The process involves reacting carbon dioxide with abundantly available metal oxides either magnesium oxide MgO or calcium oxide CaO to form stable carbonates These reactions are exothermic and occur naturally e g the weathering of rock over geologic time periods 100 101 CaO CO2 CaCO3MgO CO2 MgCO3Calcium and magnesium are found in nature typically as calcium and magnesium silicates such as forsterite and serpentinite and not as binary oxides For forsterite and serpentine the reactions are Mg2 SiO4 2 CO2 2 MgCO3 SiO2Mg3 Si2 O5 OH 4 3 CO2 3 MgCO3 2 SiO2 2 H2 OThe following table lists principal metal oxides of Earth s crust Theoretically up to 22 of this mineral mass is able to form carbonates Earthen Oxide Percent of Crust Carbonate Enthalpy change kJ mol SiO2 59 71Al2 O3 15 41CaO 4 90 CaCO3 179MgO 4 36 MgCO3 117Na2 O 3 55 Na2 CO3FeO 3 52 FeCO3K2 O 2 80 K2 CO3Fe2 O3 2 63 FeCO321 76 All CarbonatesThese reactions are slightly more favorable at low temperatures 100 This process occurs naturally over geologic time frames and is responsible for much of the Earth s surface limestone The reaction rate can be made faster however by reacting at higher temperatures and or pressures although this method requires some additional energy Alternatively the mineral could be milled to increase its surface area and exposed to water and constant abrasion to remove the inert Silica as could be achieved naturally by dumping Olivine in the high energy surf of beaches 102 Experiments suggest the weathering process is reasonably quick one year given porous basaltic rocks 103 104 CO2 naturally reacts with peridotite rock in surface exposures of ophiolites notably in Oman It has been suggested that this process can be enhanced to carry out natural mineralisation of CO2 105 106 When CO2 is dissolved in water and injected into hot basaltic rocks underground it has been shown that the CO2 reacts with the basalt to form solid carbonate minerals 107 A test plant in Iceland started up in October 2017 extracting up to 50 tons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere and storing it underground in basaltic rock 108 Researchers from British Columbia developed a low cost process for the production of magnesite also known as magnesium carbonate which can sequester CO2 from the air or at the point of air pollution e g at a power plant The crystals are naturally occurring but accumulation is usually very slow 109 Concrete is a promising destination of captured carbon dioxide Several advantages that concrete offers include but not limited to a source of plenty of calcium due to its substantial production all over the world a thermodynamically stable condition for carbon dioxide to be stored as calcium carbonates and its long term capability of storing carbon dioxide as a material widely used in infrastructure 110 111 Demolished concrete waste or recycled concrete could be also used aside from newly produced concrete 112 Studies at HeidelbergCement show that carbon sequestration can turn those demolished and recycled concrete into a supplementary cementitious material which acts as a secondary binder in tandem with Portland cement for a new butch of concrete production 113 114 Electrochemistry Edit Another method uses a liquid metal catalyst and an electrolyte liquid into which CO2 is dissolved The CO2 then converts into solid flakes of carbon This method is done at room temperature 115 116 117 In 2022 the team updated its work to operate at a lower temperature and operate more quickly and with fewer steps 118 Industrial use Edit Traditional cement manufacture releases large amounts of carbon dioxide but newly developed cement types from Novacem 119 can absorb CO2 from ambient air during hardening 120 A similar technique was pioneered by TecEco which has been producing EcoCement since 2002 121 Canadian startup CarbonCure Technologies takes captured CO2 and injects it into concrete as it is being mixed 122 Carbon Upcycling UCLA is another company that uses CO2 in concrete Their concrete product is called CO2NCRETE a concrete that hardens faster and is more eco friendly than traditional concrete 123 In Estonia oil shale ash generated by power stations could be used as sorbents for CO2 mineral sequestration The amount of CO2 captured averaged 60 to 65 of the carbonaceous CO2 and 10 to 11 of the total CO2 emissions 124 Chemical scrubbers Edit Main articles Carbon capture and storage and Carbon air capture Various carbon dioxide scrubbing processes have been proposed to remove CO2 from the air usually using a variant of the Kraft process Carbon dioxide scrubbing variants exist based on potassium carbonate which can be used to create liquid fuels or on sodium hydroxide 125 126 127 These notably include artificial trees proposed by Klaus Lackner to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using chemical scrubbers 128 129 Sequestration techniques in oceans EditSeaweed farming Edit Further information Seaweed farming Climate change mitigation Seaweed grow in shallow and coastal areas and capture significant amounts of carbon that can be transported to the deep ocean by oceanic mechanisms seaweed reaching the deep ocean sequester carbon and prevent it from exchanging with the atmosphere over millennia 130 Growing seaweed offshore with the purpose of sinking the seaweed in the depths of the sea to sequester carbon is under research 131 In addition seaweed grows very fast and can theoretically be harvested and processed to generate biomethane via anaerobic digestion to generate electricity via cogeneration CHP or as a replacement for natural gas One study suggested that if seaweed farms covered 9 of the ocean they could produce enough biomethane to supply Earth s equivalent demand for fossil fuel energy remove 53 gigatonnes of CO2 per year from the atmosphere and sustainably produce 200 kg per year of fish per person for 10 billion people 132 Ideal species for such farming and conversion include Laminaria digitata Fucus serratus and Saccharina latissima 133 Ocean fertilisation Edit This section is an excerpt from Ocean fertilization edit Ocean fertilization or ocean nourishment is a type of technology for carbon dioxide removal from the ocean based on the purposeful introduction of plant nutrients to the upper ocean to increase marine food production and to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 134 135 Ocean nutrient fertilization for example iron fertilization of the ocean could stimulate photosynthesis in phytoplankton The phytoplankton would convert the ocean s dissolved carbon dioxide into carbohydrate and oxygen gas some of which would sink into the deeper ocean before oxidizing More than a dozen open sea experiments confirmed that adding iron to the ocean increases photosynthesis in phytoplankton by up to 30 times 136 This is one of the more well researched carbon dioxide removal CDR approaches however this approach would only sequester carbon on a timescale of 10 100 years dependent on ocean mixing times While surface ocean acidity may decrease as a result of nutrient fertilization when the sinking organic matter remineralizes the deep ocean acidity will increase A 2021 report on CDR indicates that there is medium high confidence that the technique could be efficient and scalable at low cost with medium environmental risks 137 One of the key risks of nutrient fertilization is nutrient robbing a process by which excess nutrients used in one location for enhanced primary productivity as in a fertilization context are then unavailable for normal productivity downstream This could result in ecosystem impacts far outside the original site of fertilization 137 A number of techniques including fertilization by the micronutrient iron called iron fertilization or with nitrogen and phosphorus both macronutrients have been proposed But research in the early 2020s suggested that it could only permanently sequester a small amount of carbon 138 Therefore there is no major future in its role to sequester carbon Artificial upwelling Edit Artificial upwelling or downwelling is an approach that would change the mixing layers of the ocean Encouraging various ocean layers to mix can move nutrients and dissolved gases around offering avenues for geoengineering 139 Mixing may be achieved by placing large vertical pipes in the oceans to pump nutrient rich water to the surface triggering blooms of algae which store carbon when they grow and export carbon when they die 139 140 141 This produces results somewhat similar to iron fertilization One side effect is a short term rise in CO2 which limits its attractiveness 142 Mixing layers involve transporting the denser and colder deep ocean water to the surface mixed layer As the ocean temperature decreases with depth more carbon dioxide and other compounds are able to dissolve in the deeper layers 143 This can be induced by reversing the oceanic carbon cycle through the use of large vertical pipes serving as ocean pumps 144 or a mixer array 145 When the nutrient rich deep ocean water is moved to the surface algae bloom occurs resulting in a decrease in carbon dioxide due to carbon intake from phytoplankton and other photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms The transfer of heat between the layers will also cause seawater from the mixed layer to sink and absorb more carbon dioxide This method has not gained much traction as algae bloom harms marine ecosystems by blocking sunlight and releasing harmful toxins into the ocean 146 The sudden increase in carbon dioxide on the surface level will also temporarily decrease the pH of the seawater impairing the growth of coral reefs The production of carbonic acid through the dissolution of carbon dioxide in seawater hinders marine biogenic calcification and causes major disruptions to the oceanic food chain 147 Basalt storage Edit Carbon dioxide sequestration in basalt involves the injecting of CO2 into deep sea formations The CO2 first mixes with seawater and then reacts with the basalt both of which are alkaline rich elements This reaction results in the release of Ca2 and Mg2 ions forming stable carbonate minerals 148 Underwater basalt offers a good alternative to other forms of oceanic carbon storage because it has a number of trapping measures to ensure added protection against leakage These measures include geochemical sediment gravitational and hydrate formation Because CO2 hydrate is denser than CO2 in seawater the risk of leakage is minimal Injecting the CO2 at depths greater than 2 700 meters 8 900 ft ensures that the CO2 has a greater density than seawater causing it to sink 149 One possible injection site is Juan de Fuca plate Researchers at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory found that this plate at the western coast of the United States has a possible storage capacity of 208 gigatons This could cover the entire current U S carbon emissions for over 100 years 149 This process is undergoing tests as part of the CarbFix project resulting in 95 of the injected 250 tonnes of CO2 to solidify into calcite in two years using 25 tonnes of water per tonne of CO2 104 150 Mineralization and deep sea sediments Edit See also Pelagic sedimentSimilar to mineralization processes that takes place within rocks mineralization can also occur under the sea The rate of dissolution of carbon dioxide from atmosphere to oceanic regions relies upon the circulation period of the ocean and buffering ability of subducting surface water 151 Researchers have demonstrated that the carbon dioxide marine storage at several kilometers deep could be viable for up to 500 years but is dependent on injection site and conditions Several studies have shown that although it may fix carbon dioxide effect carbon dioxide may be released back to the atmosphere over time However this is unlikely for at least a few more centuries The neutralization of CaCO3 or balancing the concentration of CaCO3 on the seafloor land and in the ocean can be measured on a timescale of thousands of years More specifically the predicted time is 1700 years for ocean and approximately 5000 to 6000 years for land 152 153 Further the dissolution time for CaCO3 can be improved by injecting near or downstream of the storage site 154 In addition to carbon mineralization another proposal is deep sea sediment injection It injects liquid carbon dioxide at least 3000 m below the surface directly into ocean sediments to generate carbon dioxide hydrate Two regions are defined for exploration the negative buoyancy zone NBZ which is the region between liquid carbon dioxide denser than surrounding water and where liquid carbon dioxide has neutral buoyancy and hydrate formation zone HFZ which typically has low temperatures and high pressures Several research models have shown that the optimal depth of injection requires consideration of intrinsic permeability and any changes in liquid carbon dioxide permeability for optimal storage The formation of hydrates decreases liquid carbon dioxide permeability and injection below HFZ is more energetically favored than within the HFZ If the NBZ is a greater column of water than the HFZ the injection should happen below the HFZ and directly to the NBZ In this case liquid carbon dioxide will sink to the NBZ and be stored below the buoyancy and hydrate cap Carbon dioxide leakage can occur if there is dissolution into pore fluid or via molecular diffusion However this occurs over thousands of years 154 155 156 Adding bases to neutralize acids Edit Further information Ocean acidification Carbon removal technologies which add alkalinity Carbon dioxide forms carbonic acid when dissolved in water so ocean acidification is a significant consequence of elevated carbon dioxide levels and limits the rate at which it can be absorbed into the ocean the solubility pump A variety of different bases have been suggested that could neutralize the acid and thus increase CO2 absorption 157 158 159 160 161 For example adding crushed limestone to oceans enhances the absorption of carbon dioxide 162 Another approach is to add sodium hydroxide to oceans which is produced by electrolysis of salt water or brine while eliminating the waste hydrochloric acid by reaction with a volcanic silicate rock such as enstatite effectively increasing the rate of natural weathering of these rocks to restore ocean pH 163 164 165 Single step carbon sequestration and storage Edit Single step carbon sequestration and storage is a saline water based mineralization technology extracting carbon dioxide from seawater and storing it in the form of solid minerals 166 Abandoned ideas Edit Direct deep sea carbon dioxide injection Edit Main article Direct deep sea carbon dioxide injection It was once suggested that CO2 could be stored in the oceans by direct injection into the deep ocean and storing it there for some centuries At the time this proposal was called ocean storage but more precisely it was known as direct deep sea carbon dioxide injection However the interest in this avenue of carbon storage has much reduced since about 2001 because of concerns about the unknown impacts on marine life 167 279 high costs and concerns about its stability or permanence 90 The IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in 2005 did include this technology as an option 167 279 However the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in 2014 no longer mentioned the term ocean storage in its report on climate change mitigation methods 168 The most recent IPCC Sixth Assessment Report in 2022 also no longer includes any mention of ocean storage in its Carbon Dioxide Removal taxonomy 169 12 37 Cost EditCost of the sequestration not including capture and transport varies but is below US 10 per tonne in some cases where onshore storage is available 170 For example Carbfix cost is around US 25 per tonne of CO2 171 A 2020 report estimated sequestration in forests so including capture at US 35 for small quantities to US 280 per tonne for 10 of the total required to keep to 1 5 C warming 172 But there is risk of forest fires releasing the carbon 173 Researchers have raised the concern that the use of carbon offsets such as by maintaining forests reforestation or carbon capture as well as renewable energy certificates 174 allow polluting companies a business as usual approach to continue releasing greenhouse gases 175 176 and for being inappropriately trusted untried techno fixes 177 This also includes the 2022 IPCC report on climate change criticized for containing a lot of pipe dreams relying on large negative emissions technologies 178 A review of studies by the Stanford Solutions Project concluded that relying on Carbon capture and storage utilization CCS U is a dangerous distraction with it in most and large scale cases being expensive increasing air pollution and mining inefficient and unlikely to be deployable at the scale required in time 179 Transferring land rights to indigenous inhabitants is argued to efficiently conserve forests Applications in climate change policies EditUnited States Edit Further information Climate change policy of the United States Starting in the mid late 2010s many pieces of US climate and environment policy have sought to make use of the climate change mitigation potential of carbon sequestration Many of these policies involve either conservation of carbon sink ecosystems such as forests and wetlands or encouraging agricultural and land use practices designed to increase carbon sequestration such as carbon farming or agroforestry often through financial incentivization for farmers and landowners The Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad signed by president Joe Biden on January 27 2021 includes several mentions of carbon sequestration via conservation and restoration of carbon sink ecosystems such as wetlands and forests These include emphasizing the importance of farmers landowners and coastal communities in carbon sequestration directing the Treasury Department to promote conservation of carbon sinks through market based mechanisms and directing the Department of the Interior to collaborate with other agencies to create a Civilian Climate Corps to increase carbon sequestration in agriculture among other things 180 Several pieces of 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