Understanding opportunities for carbon capture and storage (CCS) across sectors is important for choosing among greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. This study explores the cradle-to-gate life cycle environmental impacts of amine solvent based carbon capture systems on U.S. ammonia production, petroleum refineries, supercritical and subcritical pulverized coal power plants, and natural gas combined cycle plants. We use publicly available data to create comprehensive life cycle inventories for petroleum refining and ammonia production for 2014. We use these processes and additional modeled carbon capture processes to compare carbon capture on ammonia production and petroleum refining to inventories for coal and natural gas fired electricity with carbon capture. This analysis found that particulate matter formation potential, eutrophication potential, and water consumption increase in all sectors as a result of installation and operation of CCS technologies per kg CO₂e abated, while the effect on acidification potential and particulate mater formation potential is mixed. The differences in tradeoffs among systems are driven primarily by three factors: the combustion emissions from fuel used to operate the capture unit, the upstream supply chain to obtain that fuel, and the relative impact of the carbon capture unit on baseline flue gas emissions (i.e. possible co-benefits from capture).

了解跨部门的碳捕集与封存（CCS）机会对于选择温室气体减排策略非常重要。这项研究探索了基于胺溶剂的碳捕集系统对美国氨生产，炼油厂，超临界和亚临界粉煤电厂以及天然气联合循环电厂从摇篮到大门的生命周期环境的影响。我们使用公开可用的数据来创建2014年炼油和氨生产的综合生命周期清单。我们使用这些过程和其他建模的碳捕集过程，将氨生产和石油炼制中的碳捕集与煤炭和天然气发电的库存进行比较。碳捕获。这项分析发现，颗粒物形成的潜力，_降低了2e，同时混合了对酸化电势和颗粒物形成电势的影响。系统之间权衡的差异主要由三个因素驱动：用于操作捕集单元的燃料的燃烧排放，获取该燃料的上游供应链，以及碳捕集单元对基准烟道气排放的相对影响（即从捕获中获得的可能的共同利益）。