Fig. 5: The economic costs of the CCS deployment schemes in China’s steel sector. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: The economic costs of the CCS deployment schemes in China’s steel sector.

From: Long-term transformation in China’s steel sector for carbon capture and storage technology deployment

Fig. 5

a The total cost ranges and the composition of the schemes, including the cost from carbon capture, carbon transformation, and carbon storage, and the benefit from enhanced oil recovery under the high, moderate, and low steel output scenarios. These ranges are derived from the uncertainty of carbon dioxide generation and cost parameters. b–d The relationships between cumulative mitigation potential by CCS and levelized cost of the steel units under the high, moderate, and low steel output scenarios, respectively. The blue, red, and black dots are the levelized costs at the lower limit, mean, and upper limit levels. CNY Chinese Yuan. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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