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Techno-economic and environmental feasibility of mineral carbonation technology for carbon neutrality: A Perspective

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Although various CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are being researched and developed intensively for the purpose of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, most current technologies remain at low technology readiness levels for industrial use and are less economical compared to conventional processes. Mineral carbonation is a CO2 utilization technology with low net CO2 emissions and high CO2 reduction potential, and various commercialization studies are underway around the world. This manuscript reviews the potential of mineral carbonation as a general CCU technology and the techno-economic and environmental feasibility of a representative technology, which produces sodium bicarbonate through the saline water electrolysis and carbonation steps, and examines the potential CO2 reduction derived from the application of this technology. The future implementation of mineral carbonation technology in ocean alkalinity enhancement for sequestrating atmospheric CO2 or the production of abandoned mine backfill materials is also discussed in order to deploy the technology at much larger scales for a meaningful contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Acknowledgement

This works was supported by the Carbon-to-X (C2X) R&D project (project no. 2020M3H7A1096361) sponsored by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of the Ministry of Science and ICT.

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  1. R&D Strategy office, KEPCO Research Institute, 105 Munji-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34056, Korea

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  2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea

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Jay H. Lee is currently a KEPCO Chair Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also the director of Saudi Aramco-KAIST CO2 Management Center. He received the AIChE CAST Computing in Chemical Engineering Award and was elected as an IEEE Fellow, an IFAC Fellow, and an AIChE Fellow. He was the 29th Roger Sargent Lecturer in 2016. He published over 200 manuscripts in SCI journals with more than 17,000 Google Scholars citations. His research interests are in the areas of state estimation, model predictive control, planning/scheduling, and reinforcement learning with applications to energy systems and carbon management systems.

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Lee, J.H., Lee, J.H. Techno-economic and environmental feasibility of mineral carbonation technology for carbon neutrality: A Perspective. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 38, 1757–1767 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-021-0840-2

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