Event Overview
In the next decade, larger and more efficient CO2 machinery will be needed to meet evolving global market needs. With renewable power's build-out, ironically, the United States continues to utilize more natural gas for power generation, for both baseload and for peaking power, due to its reliability and fast response time of gas turbine generators. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has also translated into more reliance on dedicated natural gas-fired power and natural gas pipelines. Hence, eventually, CO2 capture for gas-fired power will be needed to decarbonize the power generation sector. Other key CO2 capture market segments also include industrial iron and steel manufacturing, cement plants, iron and steel and natural gas processing.
The search for non-fossil fuel-based peaking power to fill the projected utility grid gaps remains challenging, since battery technology is limited in duration while other energy storage is less proven, not readily deployable and physically challenging (compressed air/hydro). Thermal energy storage concepts appear to be the leading backup power concept with well-proven technology and longer duration energy storage. Pilot plants are underway to prove out thermal energy storage as an alternative to batteries and hydrogen.
As the world aims to decarbonize key industries, CO2 machinery innovation will play a key part in contributing to improving the economics of carbon capture, reuse and/or sequestration/storage. Capturing CO2 can be achieved through various processes, including cryogenic CO2 removal, membrane-based, and advanced solvents/sorbents, which may offer other routes to storage and sequestration. Avoiding or limiting new pipeline construction and permitting is also a tactic by many U.S.-based Gulf Coast CO2 project operators, as this may help to minimize costs if injection wells can be located closer to capture sites. Repurposed pipelines operating below the super-critical pressure are one option for lowering CCS costs. Other CCS strategies include exhaust gas recirculation, liquefaction of CO2, and beneficial reuse of CO2 as fuel (such as methanol).
Attendees will receive 2 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion.
Class Objectives
- Review the changing landscape of US natural gas markets and options for non-fossil fuel-based energy storage technologies.
- Explore some of the recent trends in finding more cost-effective means of accomplishing carbon capture, compression and sequestration.
- Highlight CO2 compressor and options for pipeline transport (super-critical or lower pressure gaseous phase), ship/vessel transport (CO2 as a liquid) and sequestration.
| All-Access Pass | FREE |
| Members | $295 |
| Non-Members | $495 |
Meet Your Instructor
Marybeth McBain
Product Line Manager, New Apparatus, Global Sales
EBARA ELLIOTT ENERGY
Marybeth McBain represents Elliott Group as a Product Line Manager for Elliott’s centrifugal compressor line. Covering new sales globally, this role manages LNG compressors, pipeline transport, downstream / refinery compressors and hydrogen and CO2 applications, as well as axial compressors, cryogenic pumps and steam turbines in this region. Previously, Marybeth worked at Kinder Morgan previously evaluating new compression for gas transmission / storage projects and recommending upgrades and compressor modifications for KM’s midstream systems. Mrs. McBain also worked at Southwest Research Institute for ten years in the pulsation analysis and turbomachinery groups where she developed four patents related to innovative pulsation control concepts. Her career is supported by a BSME from the University of Texas at Austin and an MSME from Georgia Tech.