Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model
The discrepancy between current CO _2 emission trend and the targeted 1.5 °C warming requires the implementation of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Among the engineered CDRs, enhanced weathering (EW) is expected to exhibit substantial potential for CO _2 removal, owing to the availability...
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| description | The discrepancy between current CO _2 emission trend and the targeted 1.5 °C warming requires the implementation of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Among the engineered CDRs, enhanced weathering (EW) is expected to exhibit substantial potential for CO _2 removal, owing to the availability of abundant reserves of ultramafic rocks and demonstration of worldwide liming practice. While the shrinking core model (SCM) has been commonly adopted in previous theoretical and experimental studies, there still lacks a comprehensive assessment on the impacts of model parameters, such as rock particle size, size distribution, weathering rate and time length on the weathering kinetics and the resultant CDR potential. Herein, this study incorporates particle size distribution of rock powder into the surface reaction-controlled SCM, and conducts sensitivity analysis on EW’s CDR potential quantitatively. Even fully powered by low-carbon energy in the optimistic case, the application of EW with olivine only achieves maximum CDR per unit of rock and energy consumption of 0.01 kg CO _2 per kg rock and 19 g per kWh at size of 8 and 22 μ m respectively, indicating the limitations of EW. The derived optimal application parameters with olivine powers within 3.7–79 μ m provide valuable insights into the practical real-world applications to achieve net CO _2 removal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-86e493c1960b4449afa7e7bab72d35122023-11-09T10:07:14ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262023-01-01181212401810.1088/1748-9326/ad085eTheoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core modelAnqi Chen0Zhuo Chen1Bo-Lin Lin2School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of ChinaSchool of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 201210, People’s Republic of ChinaThe discrepancy between current CO _2 emission trend and the targeted 1.5 °C warming requires the implementation of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Among the engineered CDRs, enhanced weathering (EW) is expected to exhibit substantial potential for CO _2 removal, owing to the availability of abundant reserves of ultramafic rocks and demonstration of worldwide liming practice. While the shrinking core model (SCM) has been commonly adopted in previous theoretical and experimental studies, there still lacks a comprehensive assessment on the impacts of model parameters, such as rock particle size, size distribution, weathering rate and time length on the weathering kinetics and the resultant CDR potential. Herein, this study incorporates particle size distribution of rock powder into the surface reaction-controlled SCM, and conducts sensitivity analysis on EW’s CDR potential quantitatively. Even fully powered by low-carbon energy in the optimistic case, the application of EW with olivine only achieves maximum CDR per unit of rock and energy consumption of 0.01 kg CO _2 per kg rock and 19 g per kWh at size of 8 and 22 μ m respectively, indicating the limitations of EW. The derived optimal application parameters with olivine powers within 3.7–79 μ m provide valuable insights into the practical real-world applications to achieve net CO _2 removal.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad085eenhanced weatheringcarbon dioxide removaltheoretical modeling |
| spellingShingle | Anqi Chen Zhuo Chen Bo-Lin Lin Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model Environmental Research Letters enhanced weathering carbon dioxide removal theoretical modeling |
| title | Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| title_full | Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| title_fullStr | Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| title_short | Theoretical evaluation on CO2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| title_sort | theoretical evaluation on co2 removal potential of enhanced weathering based on shrinking core model |
| topic | enhanced weathering carbon dioxide removal theoretical modeling |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad085e |
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