APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING CARBON DIOXIDE

A CO2 capture and storage system has absorbing tower near a source of CO2. The CO2 absorbing tower has a CO2 gas inlet, a gas outlet, an absorbent inlet and an absorbent outlet. A CO2 stripping tower is near a well penetrating a geologic formation. The stripping tower has an absorbent inlet, a gas outlet, an absorbent outlet and a heated fluid inlet. A CO2 condensing unit is disposed proximate the stripping tower and operatively coupled to the gas outlet on the stripping tower. The condensing unit has a compressor and/or a cooler, wherein CO2 gas from condensing unit is converted to liquid. An outlet of the condensing unit is in fluid communication with the well. A pipeline is interposed between the absorbing tower and the stripping tower, wherein the source of CO2 and the well are distal from each other.