CO2 CAPTURING AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY: FUTURE PROSPECT, CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABILITY

With the growing population, there is growing demand of Fossil Fuels rate of replenishment of which is less than its consumption. This if not controlled would damage Earth's Climate. CO2 emissions have increased by more than 20% over the past 10 years. Considering present trends of Green House Gas emissions and expected energy efficiency gain and technological progress as mentioned in existing policies, including United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto protocol, Co2 emissions will continue to rise over the next 25 years. Due to burden on coal for power generation and increased emissions from transportation and human's consumption of non-renewable resources of earth the carbon emissions is forecasted to be over two and a half times the current level by 2050. By portfolio of emerging and existing mitigation technologies like renewable energy, advanced hydrogen production for transportation, advanced bioenergy, energy efficiency, nuclear power generation and CO2 storage, the alarming climate change can be controlled to some extent. These technologies apart from reducing CO2 emissions, improves economic efficiency, competitiveness, and local environmental quality. This paper discusses the development of CO2 capturing and storage as well as showing roadmap ahead in which there is future prospect of CO2 Capturing and its challenges and its sustainability