Carbon Capture to be done at TransAlta

TransAlta is a 100-year-old Calgary company, which has become the largest investor-owned generator of renewable energy in Canada.It plans to be at the tech forefront.

The company is facing greenhouse gas issues and is at the forefront in carbon capture and sequestration; by the end of 2015, it plans to have stored one million tons of carbon dioxide underground.

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What is involved in this process of carbon capture and storage?

CCS, short for carbon capture and storage is a three-part system for collecting CO₂ emissions from large industrial sites and storing them permanently in geological formations far below the surface of the earth. Or in ocean formations or in places where crude was once there. The three components of the system are:

- a “scrubber” to remove pure carbon dioxide from an industrial flue gas stream;

- a compression-and-pipeline component to move liquid CO₂ to a storage site; and,

- a deep geological formation capable of containing compressed, liquefied CO₂ permanently.