TY - JOUR
T1 - Rapid carbon mineralization for permanent disposal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions
AU - Matter, Juerg M.
AU - Stute, Martin
AU - Snæbjörnsdottir, Sandra
AU - Oelkers, Eric H.
AU - Gislason, Sigurdur R.
AU - Aradottir, Edda S.
AU - Sigfusson, Bergur
AU - Gunnarsson, Ingvi
AU - Sigurdardottir, Holmfridur
AU - Gunnlaugsson, Einar
AU - Axelsson, Gudni
AU - Alfredsson, Helgi A.
AU - Wolff-Boenisch, Domenik
AU - Mesfin, Kiflom
AU - Taya, Diana Fernandez De La Reguera
AU - Hall, Jennifer
AU - Dideriksen, Knud
AU - Broecker, Wallace S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/6/10
Y1 - 2016/6/10
N2 - Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a solution toward decarbonization of the global economy. The success of this solution depends on the ability to safely and permanently store CO2. This study demonstrates for the first time the permanent disposal of CO2 as environmentally benign carbonate minerals in basaltic rocks. We find that over 95% of the CO2 injected into the CarbFix site in Iceland was mineralized to carbonate minerals in less than 2 years. This result contrasts with the common view that the immobilization of CO2 as carbonate minerals within geologic reservoirs takes several hundreds to thousands of years. Our results, therefore, demonstrate that the safe long-term storage of anthropogenic CO2 emissions through mineralization can be far faster than previously postulated.
AB - Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a solution toward decarbonization of the global economy. The success of this solution depends on the ability to safely and permanently store CO2. This study demonstrates for the first time the permanent disposal of CO2 as environmentally benign carbonate minerals in basaltic rocks. We find that over 95% of the CO2 injected into the CarbFix site in Iceland was mineralized to carbonate minerals in less than 2 years. This result contrasts with the common view that the immobilization of CO2 as carbonate minerals within geologic reservoirs takes several hundreds to thousands of years. Our results, therefore, demonstrate that the safe long-term storage of anthropogenic CO2 emissions through mineralization can be far faster than previously postulated.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aad8132
DO - 10.1126/science.aad8132
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975129709
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 352
SP - 1312
EP - 1314
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6291
ER -