Environmental Effects related to the construction of a CCS plant

 

CCS facilities are huge physical installations - often the size of the power plant itself. The CCS plant at Mongstad in Norway, for example, requires an area the size of 20 football fields.

Construction of a CCS plant involves a series of environmental impacts associated with

- Production, processing and transport of iron, steel, aluminum, cement, etc.,

- Excavations,

- Construction of buildings,

- Manufacture of machinery,

- Setup of machinery.

Environmental effects are emissions to air and water, noise and visual degradation of landscape, etc. These effects are inevitable with CCS and should therefore be included in full on the debit side of the environmental accounts of the technology (extra environmental load).

Energy and raw material consumption and associated environmental impacts during the construction phase depend on the size of the CCS plant.