Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation

Accessible discussion on all negative emissions technologies (NETs) developed and deployed in our transition to a negative-carbon emissions energy system

Steve A. Rackley (Author), Tingzhen Ming (Author), Wei Li (Author), Michael Tyka (Author), Adrienne Sewel (Author), Diarmaid Clery (Author), George Dowson (Author), Peter Styring (Author), Graham Andrews (Author), Stephen McCord (Author), Pol Knops (Author), Renaud de Richter (Author)

9780128196632, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 21 July 2023

450 pages, Approx. 200 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 0.741 kg

Negative Emissions Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of technologies that are being researched, developed and deployed in order to transition from our current energy system, dominated by fossil fuels, to a negative-carbon emissions system. After an introduction to the challenge of climate change, the technical fundamentals of natural and engineered carbon dioxide removal and storage processes and technologies are described. Each NET is then discussed in detail, including the key elements of the technology, enablers and constraints, governance issues, and global potential and cost estimates.

This book offers a complete overview of the field, thus enabling the community to gain a full appreciation of NETs without the need to seek out and refer to a multitude of sources.

1. The climate challenge: climate change, mitigation, and negative emissions
2. Negative emissions technology overview
3. Ethics, risks, and governance of NETs
4. The global carbon cycle
5. Terrestrial carbon cycle processes
6. Oceanic carbon cycle processes
7. CO2 absorption
8. CO2 adsorption
9. Membrane CO2 separation
10. CO2 mineralization
11. AR and other land- and soil-based methods
12. Biomass carbon capture and storage
13. Direct air capture
14. Non-CO2 GHG removal
15. Geological storage
16. Ocean storage and other ocean-based methods
17. Carbon dioxide utilization

Subject Areas: Sustainable agriculture [TVF], Pollution control [TQK], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX], The environment [RN]