Transporting CO2 From Source to Sink using GIS

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Transporting CO2 From Source to Sink using GIS

• Mission 2013, 12.000
• Wednesday, September 30, 2009
• Daniel Sheehan

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Outline

• What is a GIS
• Data Types
• Symbolizing data
• Useful data for Carbon Sequestration
• Power plants
• Potential Sinks
• Processing
• Network Analysis
• Cost Path Analysis

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What is a GIS (Geographic Information System)?

• GIS is a tool for managing data about where
  features are (geographic coordinate data) and
  what the features are like (attribute data). A
  GIS provides the ability to query, manipulate,
  and analyze these data.

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Vector Data

• Points
• Line
• Polygons
• All are scale dependent

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Point dataLocation of power plants
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CO2 from power plants
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Polygon DataChina, Population 1990
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Attributes
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Metadata describing attributes
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Combing Maps Power plants in Massachusetts and
Population
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Boston area power plants
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MIT power plant in Google Earth
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Data for Carbon SequestrationSinks and Sources
Deep Saline formations are blue, power plants are
yellow dots
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Transportation problemRouting piplelines from
Carbon Sources to Carbon sinks
Nearest deep saline formation
CO2 sources near Cambridge
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Routing from power plants to a single pipeline
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Single network vs multiple pipelines
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Herzogs cost path model
70 kilometer pipeline
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Development of Terrascope model in GIS workshops

• You will need to create your own cost surface
  (required for cost path model)
• river crossings
• zoning/land use restrictions
• construction costs

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Workshop content

• Use the data presented here to determine the
  least cost path for routing a pipeline from
  Boston area CO2 sources to the nearest deep
  saline formation
• Use Arcgis 9.3 software
• Visualize your least cost path in Google Earth

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GIS Workshops

• Scheduled for 730-9PM, limit of 22 people per
  session
• Additional sessions can be scheduled
• October 7
• October 14
• October 15
• Must sign up with Seth Burgess (sburgess_at_MIT.EDU)
• Determine construction costs before lab

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Geologic Maps

• For teams 4 and 5, you will need to know what
  minerals are where. Geologic data is not always
  available in digital form. Maps will be helpful
  for you. In Barton, maps are searchable. See,
  for example
• http//library.mit.edu/item/000179757, Bedrock
  Geologic Map of Massachusetts

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Google Maps API
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Where to get more infomation

• GIS Lab, Rotch Library, Building 7
• 6 PCs with Arcgis and Google Earth Pro installed
• staffed 1230PM 400PM Monday through Thursday
  and by appointment
• email gishelp_at_mit.edu or dsheehan_at_mit.edu
• 37-312, Windows Cluster in Building 37
• 23 high end PCs with Arcgis installed

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Web sites

• http//atlas.utah.gov/WESTCARB-GIS-data/
• http//www.natcarb.org/
• Both sites sponsored by the U.S. Department of
  Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory

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• MIT Geodata Reposity
• http//web.mit.edu/geoweb
• Example Google Maps API
• http//web.mit.edu/dsheehan/www/terrascope2012.htm
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• Download Google Earth
• http//earth.google.com/download-earth.html
• Sign up for Arcgis for your machine
• https//web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/forms/esri.h
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