Transcript Transporting CO2 From Source to Sink using GIS

Transporting CO2 From
Source to Sink using GIS
Mission 2013, 12.000
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Daniel Sheehan
Outline
• What is a GIS
– Data Types
– Symbolizing data
• Useful data for Carbon Sequestration
– Power plants
– Potential Sinks
• Processing
– Network Analysis
– Cost Path Analysis
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.
Vector Data
• Points
• Line
• Polygons
• All are scale dependent
Point data:
Location of power plants
CO2 from power plants
Polygon Data
China, Population 1990
Attributes
Metadata describing attributes
Combing Maps: Power plants in
Massachusetts and Population
Boston area power plants
MIT power plant in Google Earth
Data for Carbon Sequestration:
Sinks and Sources
Deep Saline formations are blue, power plants are yellow dots
Transportation problem
Routing piplelines from Carbon Sources to
Carbon sinks
Nearest deep
saline formation
CO2 sources
near
Cambridge
Routing from power plants to a
single pipeline
Single network vs multiple pipelines
Herzog’s cost path model
70 kilometer pipeline
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
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
GIS Workshops
• Scheduled for 7:30-9PM, limit of 22 people per session
• Additional sessions can be scheduled
– October 7
– October 14
– October 15
– Must sign up with Seth Burgess
([email protected])
– Determine construction costs before lab
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
Google Maps API
Where to get more infomation
• GIS Lab, Rotch Library, Building 7
– 6 PCs with Arcgis and Google Earth Pro installed
– staffed 12:30PM – 4:00PM Monday through Thursday
and by appointment
– email [email protected] or [email protected]
• 37-312, Windows Cluster in Building 37
– 23 high end PCs with Arcgis installed
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
• MIT Geodata Reposity
– http://web.mit.edu/geoweb
• Example Google Maps API
– http://web.mit.edu/dsheehan/www/terrascope
2012.html
• 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
.html