An Overview of the Progress of CO2 Capture Technologies

Global energy consumption continues to grow, leading to increased carbon dioxide (CO
2
) emissions due to the increasing use of fossil fuels in industrial and power plants. Carbon capture and storage have been identified as the most effective technologies for reducing CO
2
emissions while using fossil fuels to generate electricity. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) defines a wide range of technologies being built to transfer CO
2
releases from significant point sources of fossil fuel use to secure geological deposits instead of releasing them into the environment. This analysis revealed that CO
2
capture technologies which include precombustion capture, post-combustion capture, and oxy-fuel capture, have the potential to substantially cut back the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Moreover, this study includes the technologies of CO
2
capture with separation which includes the adsorption, absorption, membrane, microalgae, and cryogenic methods. Finally, this study extensively describes the most common and developed measures for comparing and analyzing CO
2
emission and capture technology to achieve zero-emission of CO
2
in near future.