Johannes Burger

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Burger

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Johannes

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0000-0003-1327-1259

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09696 - Bardow, André / Bardow, André

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Multi-criteria assessment of inland and offshore carbon dioxide transport options
Oeuvray, Pauline; Burger, Johannes; Roussanaly, Simon; et al. (2024)
Journal of Cleaner Production
Transport is a key element of carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) supply chains. Early movers, particularly inland emitters (e.g., in continental Europe), do not yet have access to a fully developed CO₂ network infrastructure connecting them with the offshore storage hubs (e.g., in the European northern seas, as these belong to the first wave of storage infrastructure that will be developed in Europe). Therefore, specific source-to-sink CCTS supply chains combining and integrating different transport options must be developed and deployed first. In this work we analyse such transport options, which include (i) tank containers that can be transported by trucks, trains, barges, or ships, (ii) dedicated tanks permanently integrated into trucks, trains, barges, or ships, and (iii) pipelines. We develop general and portable methods, criteria, and correlations to determine the cost of transport through any given connection between two nodes in a CO₂ network infrastructure, using any of the modes of transport above, as a function of distance and capacity. In particular, the correlations are based on real data collected through interviews with service providers and stakeholders. Based on the associated techno-economic assessment and the consideration of additional performance indicators of a more holistic nature, we carry out a multi-criteria assessment of the different transport options. Such multi-criteria approach allows for a holistic and transparent comparative assessment of the different alternatives for a whole CCTS supply chain, as illustrated with reference to a very specific connection.
Resilience of carbon capture, transport, and storage infrastructure: Trade-offs between cost and emissions
Burger, Johannes; Shu, David Yang; Bardow, André; et al. (2024)
Environmental impacts of carbon capture, transport, and storage supply chains: Status and the way forward
Burger, Johannes; Nöhl, Julian; Seiler, Jan; et al. (2024)
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) enables the decarbonization of industrial emitters. CCTS is regarded as crucial in reaching net-zero emission targets but currently stands far behind the required scale. CCTS deployment for point sources may be accelerated by CCTS chains relying on currently available technology, called pioneering supply chains. In particular, transporting CO2 in standard containers can be implemented without new transport infrastructure. Pioneering CCTS chains must not cause more emissions than they store to successfully avoid CO2 emissions. Using life cycle assessment, we show that pioneering CCTS chains emit less CO2 than they store permanently, demonstrating that CCTS can already today avoid 50 to 70% of point source GHG emissions. This evidence proves robust against uncertainties based on the scarce operational experience in CCTS. Our environmental assessment shows that increasing the capture rate above the assumed 90% is a main lever to increase emissions avoidance of the CCTS chains above 80%. Capturing and transporting the CO2 causes large shares of the chain’s global warming impact as they rely on fossil fuels. Reducing GHG emission intensity of energy supply and switching to pipeline-based transport can reduce global warming and other environmental impacts compared to pioneering CCTS chains. Our analysis shows that pioneering chains can accelerate infrastructure scale-up while successfully storing CO2 from point sources.
Environmental impact of pioneering carbon capture, transport and storage chains
Burger, Johannes; Nöhl, Julian; Seiler, Jan; et al. (2022)
SSRN Electronic Journal ~ Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16)
The transition to net-zero emissions requires large amounts of carbon dioxide to be captured and stored permanently in geological storage. To initiate the large-scale deployment of CO2 capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) value chains, immediate deployment of infrastructure is required. The environmental impacts of a value chain relying on ready-to-use technologies instead of optimal ones with long lead times, such as pipelines, is so far unclear. We assess the environmental impacts through the life cycle assessment of an exemplary CCTS value chain from Switzerland to Norway that only uses immediately available technologies. Even though the system relies on suboptimal technologies and is not optimized for a low climate impact, it shows the capability to effectively sequester CO2 without emitting more during its life cycle than is stored. Contrary to previous studies, the ready-to-use transport modes cause a significant share (56.3 %) of the total global warming impact (GWI) of the value chain. More than 73 % of the total GWI stems from the use of fossil fuels during the operation phase of the value chain.
Rollout of Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage Infrastructure for Hard-to-abate Industry in Switzerland
Burger, Johannes; Gabrielli, Paolo; Shu, David Yang; et al. (2024)
Book of Abstract of the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (ESCAPE34/PSE24)
Climate change mitigation requires a dramatic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors, including hard-to-abate industries. Hard-to-abate emissions from industry can be avoided by CO2 capture, transport, and storage (CCTS), where CO2 is transported from capture plants to permanent storage sites. However, no CCTS infrastructure is currently deployed in Europe. Therefore, the transition towards a large-scale CCTS infrastructure needs to be properly planned and implemented. Within this context, external factors play a role in the deployment of CCTS supply chains and lead to large uncertainty due to little operational experience for such systems. Here, we investigate the rollout of a Swiss CCTS infrastructure to achieve a net-zero emissions Swiss industry and connect Swiss emitters to a European CCTS infrastructure. We address uncertainty and real-world constraints regarding the rollout of CCTS infrastructure via scenario analysis. Under most scenarios, Swiss CO2 sequestration targets can be reached, although costs may increase by up to 25%. The delay or limitation of available storage capacity, however, can undermine the sequestration targets.
ZEN-garden: Optimizing energy transition pathways with user-oriented data handling
Mannhardt, Jacob; Ganter, Alissa; Burger, Johannes; et al. (2025)
SoftwareX
Welcome to the ZEN-garden: ZEN-garden is an open-source optimization software to model multi-year energy system transition pathways. To support research focused on the transition of sector-coupled energy systems toward net-zero emissions, ZEN-garden is built upon two principles: Optimizing highly complex sector-coupled energy transition pathways and supporting user-friendly data handling through small, flexible, and robust input datasets. ZEN-garden separates the codebase from the input data to allow for very diverse case studies. Lightweight and intuitive input datasets and unit consistency checks reduce user errors and facilitate using ZEN-garden for both novice and experienced energy system modelers.
How to transport carbon dioxide with minimal environmental impacts today and tomorrow? A prospective life cycle assessment
Nöhl, Julian; Burger, Johannes; Oeuvray, Pauline; et al. (2025)
Journal of Cleaner Production
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage is crucial for climate change mitigation. As carbon dioxide (CO2) source and sink locations typically do not coincide, efficient CO2 transport solutions are essential. Since installing transport infrastructure requires substantial investments, researchers and decision-makers need to know the long-term evolution of the resulting environmental impacts, and the implications for a gigatonne-scale deployment of CO2 transport. Here, we quantify the environmental impacts of CO2 transport modes in Europe up to 2100 via prospective life cycle assessment. Our results confirm that dense phase pipelines result in the lowest environmental impacts for both on- and offshore CO2 transport today and in the future, despite substantial improvements in truck, train, barge, and ship transport towards 2100. Even for a gigatonne-scale CO2 pipeline transport network in Europe, all 16 studied environmental impact categories are expected to be less than 0.075% of Europe's share of the safe operating space based on population. After pipelines, trains and electric trucks impact the climate the least. However, batch-wise onshore transport can exacerbate freshwater ecotoxicity, particulate matter formation, and metal/mineral depletion. Switching from batch-wise to dense phase pipeline transport can pay back the required carbon investment within less than three years. Our analysis, thus, identifies environmentally preferable CO2 transport modes that are robust for future deployment towards gigatonne-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage supply chains.
Rolling-out pioneering carbon dioxide capture and transport chains from inland European industrial facilities: A techno-economic, environmental, and regulatory evaluation
Becattini, Viola; Riboldi, Luca; Burger, Johannes; et al. (2024)
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Large-scale deployment of CO₂ capture, transport, and storage (CCTS) requires the rolling-out of extensive value chains. This study presents the development, design, techno-economic, environmental, and regulatory analysis of four pioneering chains that capture and condition CO₂ from existing European industrial plants and their multi-modal transport to selected ports in Northern Europe. The pioneering chains can avoid between 65% and 87% of the industrial emissions, including scope 3, with a cost of CO₂ avoided ranging between 100 and 300 €/tCO₂. The economic and environmental performance of the CCTS chains are substantially affected by the geographic location of the industrial emitters and the CO2 volumes to be transported. The analysis relies on the assumption that the four industrial plants would be early movers. While, in the future, technology maturation and infrastructure development are expected to reduce costs and emissions associated with the CCTS chain, this study quantifies and presents the current economic burden that must be overcome to initiate a needed widespread implementation of CCTS.
Environmental impacts from Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage: Learnings from early-mover chains in the DemoUpCARMA-project
Nöhl, Julian; Burger, Johannes; Oeuvray, Pauline; et al. (2023)
Prospective life cycle assessment of CO2 transport for carbon dioxide removal
Nöhl, Julian; Burger, Johannes; Oeuvray, Pauline; et al. (2024)

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