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CO2 Storage and Leakage PDF
2, FEBRUARY 2013
Abstract— A remote online carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentra- Storage (CCS) is on the one hand an effective way to realize
tion monitoring system is developed, based on the technologies effective greenhouse gas storage, and on the other to improve
of wireless sensor networks, in allusion to the gas leakage mon- oil and gas production [2]. Many countries such as the United
itoring requirement for CO2 capture and storage. The remote
online CO2 monitoring system consists of monitoring equipment, States, Japan, and Canada are in search of effective approaches
a data center server, and the clients. The monitoring equipment for CO2 storage in either geological formations or ocean. In
is composed of a central processing unit (CPU), air environment China, the first demonstrative industrial project of CO2 storage
sensors array, global positioning system (GPS) receiver module, has come into operation in Shenhua mine area.
secure digital memory card (SD) storage module, liquid crystal However, once CO2 leaks from the storage reservoir, all the
display (LCD) module, and general packet radio service (GPRS)
wireless transmission module. The sensors array of CO2 , temper- efforts human beings have made to fight global warming would
ature, humidity, and light intensity are used to collect data and be go down the drain. Therefore, what is in needed after the
the GPS receiver module is adopted to collect location and time geological CO2 storage is long-term terrain monitoring of the
information. The CPU automatically stores the collected data greenhouse gas leakage, which is absolutely crucial to help
in the SD card data storage module and displays them on the ensure that geologic sequestration of CO2 is safe. For this
LCD display module in real-time. Afterwards, the GPRS module
continuously wirelessly transmits the collected information to reason, the development of remote online monitoring system
the data center server. The online monitoring WebGIS clients is of great significance to geological CO2 storage and leakage
are developed using a PHP programming language, which runs warning.
on the Apache web server. MySQL is utilized as the database Recent advances in information and communication tech-
because of its speed and reliability, and the stunning cross- nologies have resulted in the development of more efficient,
browser web maps are created, optimized, and deployed with
the OpenLayers JavaScript web-mapping library. Finally, an low cost and multi-functional sensors. These micro-sensors
experiment executed in Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province, China is can be deployed in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to
introduced to demonstrate the implementation and application. monitor and collect air environmental information such as
Index Terms— CO2 capture and storage (CSS), general packet CO2 concentration, temperature, humidity, light intensity, air
radio service (GPRS), global positioning system (GPS), remote pressure, wind power, wind direction, etc. The information
online leakage monitoring, wireless sensor networks (WSN). is then wirelessly transmitted to data center server where
they are integrated and analyzed for evaluating of geological
I. I NTRODUCTION CO2 storage and leakage. Deploying sensor networks allows
inaccessible areas to be covered by minimizing the sensing
A TMOSPHERIC concentrations of the key greenhouse gas
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2 ) well above pre-industrial
levels constitute the main cause for the predicted rise at
costs compared with the use of separate sensors to completely
cover the same area [3].
The remainder of this paper is as follows. Section 2 presents
average surface temperature on Earth and the corresponding
the backgrounds of CCS leakage monitoring based on WSN
change of the global climate system [1]. CO2 Capture and
and their related issues. Section 3 describes the hardware
Manuscript received June 16, 2012; revised August 31, 2012; accepted infrastructure of CO2 leakage monitoring equipment and dif-
September 19, 2012. Date of publication October 9, 2012; date of current ferent sensors and modules selected. Section 4 demonstrates
version January 11, 2013. This work was supported in part by the China
Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant 2012M510193, the National Natural the firmware flow of CO2 remote online monitoring system.
Science Foundation of China Grant 41001230, the Important National Science In section 5, the implementation and application example is
and Technology Specific Projects Grant 2011ZX05034, and the Priority presented. Finally, section 6 is the conclusion of the paper and
Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it new avenues for the future works are put forward in this part.
for publication was Prof. Gotan H. Jain.
H. Yang, Y. Qin, and H. Ci are with the School of Resource and Earth II. BACKGROUNDS
Science and the Key Laboratory of CBM Resource and Reservoir Formation
Course, Ministry of Education, China University of Mining and Technology, A. Monitoring of CCS Leakage
Xuzhou 221116, China (e-mail: whinee@gmail.com; yongqin@cumt.edu.cn; The effective application of monitoring technologies should
ci_hui@163.com).
G. Feng is with the Jiangsu College Key Lab of Linguistic Sciences and ensure the safety of CCS projects, with respect to both human
Neuro-Cognition Engineering and the Linguistic Science College, Jiangsu health and the environment, and will contribute greatly to
Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China (e-mail: fspeed@jsnu.edu.cn). the development of relevant technical approaches for mon-
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available
online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. itoring and verification [4]. Many tools exist or are being
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2223210 developed for monitoring geological CO2 storage, including
1530–437X/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE
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VCC
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4K7 4K7 GND
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1 7 CO2_I2C_SCL C98 1
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C46 2 +5V I2C SDA 10 CO2_I2C_SDA 3 2
0.1u 4 GND ANALOG OUTPUT 11 VCC DQ
9 GND RESERVED 12 DS18B20 R45
5 GND RESERVED 13
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6 3 R43 HIM_INT R93
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(c) (d)
Fig. 3. Circuit diagram of air environment sensor array. (a) NDIR CO2 sensor. (b) Temperature sensor. (c) Humidity sensor. (d) Light intensity sensor.
TABLE I
The LPC1768 operate at CPU frequencies of up to
CO 2 S ENSOR S PECIFICATIONS [23]
100 MHz. The peripheral complement of the LPC1768
includes up to 512 KB of flash memory, up to 64KB of Parameter Technical Data
data memory, Ethernet MAC, USB Device/Host/OTG inter- Operating Temperature 0 °C∼50 °C
face, 8-channel general purpose DMA controller, 4 UARTs, Storage Temperature −30 °C∼70 °C
2 CAN channels, 2 SSP controllers, SPI interface, 3 I2C-bus
Operating Humidity 0%∼95% RH (Non-condensing)
interfaces, 8-channel 12-bit ADC, 10-bit DAC, four general
Sensing Method NDIR (Non-dispersive infrared)
purpose timers, 6-output general purpose PWM, ultra-low
0∼5000 ppm (expandable up to
power Real-Time Clock (RTC) with separate battery supply, Measurement Range
10000 ppm)
and up to 70 general purpose I/O pins. Accuracy ±30 ppm ±5% of measured value
Step Response Time (90%) 60 s
B. Sensor Specifications and Circuit Design Sampling Interval 3s
Air environmental information acquisition sensors array °C = degrees Celsius, RH = Relative humidity, ppm = parts per million,
s = second.
includes: NDIR CO2 sensor, temperature sensor, humidity
sensor, and light intensity sensor. These sensors, respectively,
provide real-time collection of air data to the central process-
ing unit. Each sensor is described in the following. (NDIR) spectroscopic analysis technology, and is widely used
NDIR CO2 Sensor: With broad measurement range, high in many fields such as air quality monitoring. As shown in
sensitivity, fast response time, good selectivity and strong Table 1, its performance and accuracy could well meet the
anti-interference ability, S-100 miniature CO2 sensor module needs of geological CO2 monitoring. The circuit diagram of
is selected [23]. This sensor adopts Non-dispersive infrared NDIR CO2 is as shown in Figure 3(a).
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Hui Yang received the B.Sc. degree in computer Gefei Feng received the B.Sc. degree in computer
science and technology from Jiangsu Normal Uni- science and technology from Jiangsu Normal Uni-
versity, Jiangsu, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. versity, Jiangsu, China.
degrees in cartography and geographic information He is currently a Lecturer with the Jiangsu Col-
systems from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, lege Key Lab of Linguistic Sciences and Neuro-
China. cognition Engineering and the Linguistic Science
She is currently an Associate Professor with the College, Xuzhou, China. His current research inter-
School of Resource and Earth Science and the Key ests include computer applications development,
Laboratory of CBM Resource and Reservoir Forma- computer vision, computer networks, cartography
tion Course, Ministry of Education, China University and geographic information systems, embedded sys-
of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Her tems, and wireless sensor networks.
current research interests include embedded geographic information systems
(GIS), WebGIS, wireless sensor networks, sensor mines, CO2 capture and
storage, and real-time remote monitoring using wireless sensor networks.