Perceptions and Acceptance of CCUS Environmental Risk Assessment, by Experts and Government Officers, in China

Abstract

In May 2017, Department of Science, Technology and Standards, MEP, China held the first training conference of “2017 CCUS environmental risk assessment technology”. After the conference, specially designed questionnaires were sent to the participants so as to collect the professional opinions to improve the guideline in the next revision. Basic information of participants, knowledge of CCUS, and attitude to the CCUS environmental risk are contained in the questionnaires. The 82 questionnaires were issued to the participants, and 77 valid questionnaires were collected with the response rate of 93.9%. According to the data mining, a) nearly one third of the participants had not hear of the CCUS before the training; b) the attitude to CCUS environmental impact and risk is influenced by the knowledge of CCUS; c) the severities of the three aspect of capture component is medium; d) for onshore CCUS projects, underground water, atmosphere, soil, and human health were considered of the highest sensitivity receptors; e) the enterprises were very concern of the CCUS environmental management policies, three most important policies were conducting environmental monitoring across the whole chain, clarifying the environmental management responsibilities, and stablishing emergency plans for environmental accidents. The result of this survey would provide the guidance for the improvement of the technical guideline which planned to be released the official version in 2020.