Tracing the CO2 through liquid detectors
To avoid leaks of carbon dioxide in the storage reservoirs, for example derived from disused coal plants, scientists have developed a liquid perfluorocarbon-based mixed with the CO2 that reveals leaks into the atmosphere to the instruments calibrated to capture minimum traces of these molecules and this method has already been done to monitor more than eighteen thousand tons of greenhouse gas injected into a crack about to thousand meters deep in the underground. Reduce the emissions remains the first objective considering the cost of large storage facilities such the CCS and bearing in mind that although always is try to find very stable areas of the subsurface there is always a percentage of risk due to earthquakes or other events that may cause uncontrolled leakage of carbon dioxide "stored" for long periods of time.
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Date: 15/06/2010
 article n°: 1297
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