A Feasibility Study on Hydrate-Based Technology for Transporting CO 2 from Industrial to Agricultural Areas

Seiji Matsuo, Hiroki Umeda, Satoshi Takeya and Toyohisa Fujita
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Seiji Matsuo: Graduate school of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Hiroki Umeda: Department of bioenvironmental and agricultural engineering, Nihon University, Fujisawa 252-0880, Japan
Satoshi Takeya: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
Toyohisa Fujita: Graduate school of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: Climate change caused by global warming has become a serious issue in recent years. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the above system to quantitatively supply CO 2 or CO 2 hydrate from industrial to agricultural areas. In this analysis, several transportation methods, namely, truck, hydrate tank lorry, and pipeline, were considered. According to this analysis, the total CO 2 supply costs including transportation ranged from 15 to 25 yen/kg-CO 2 when the transportation distance was 50 km or less. The cost of the hydrate-based method increased with the transport distance in contrast to the liquefied CO 2 approach. However, the technology of supplying CO 2 hydrate had merit by using a local cooling technique for cooling specific parts of agricultural products.

Keywords: CO 2 hydrate; agro-industrial system; separation of CO 2; transformation; feasibility study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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