Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS)
Power plants, oil, gas and chemical plants, and other heavy industrial facilities increasingly need technologies and systems to help them meet goals for decarbonization and carbon intensity reduction. Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) initiatives are a growing option for achieving those ambitions.
How CCUS Technology Can Fit
Establishing systems for the capture, use and/or sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) requires a range of evaluations and studies to identify effective approaches for your site’s unique characteristics. We apply our history working with power generation and oil, gas and chemicals producers to provide insight into the opportunities and limitations of these technologies.
Why Burns & McDonnell?
Our deep roots in engineering and constructing these facilities — experience built across multiple decades — means we understand the integration required to connect operating plants and CCUS technologies. We have experience in point source emission control for CO2, and we also have engaged in emerging technologies such as direct air capture (DAC), allowing CO2 reduction facilities to be strategically sited with potential for collocation with sequestration or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) facilities.
Experience Across All Project Stages
Our experience covers all aspects of a CCUS project, from CO2 source capture, separation and processing, compression and transport through injection and storage or for utilization in EOR. We deliver a full range of engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services to help you launch your carbon usage and utilization or sequestration initiatives. These include decarbonization studies, technology evaluation and selection, and compression and storage evaluations.
Our CCUS project experience includes:
- Technology evaluation and selection, including pre- and post-combustion carbon capture, ethanol CO2 capture, and DAC.
- Integration of licensed carbon capture technology packages into existing facilities and balance-of-plant operations.
- Compression and pipeline systems, including compression technologies assessments, dehydration design, liquefaction compressors and chillers, metering and pump station design, and pipeline routing from capture to sequestration sites.
- Comprehensive environmental services for sequestration, including site selection and characterization, field investigation and testing (drilling, sampling and geological testing), Class VI well permitting, design and construction, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) permitting, and modeling and simulation.
