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Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (WyoTCH)

Ziev, Tracey [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)]·Middleton, Richard [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)]·Duque, Juan [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)]·Righetti, Tara [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)]·Lewis, Madeleine Jane [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)]·Forrest, Scarlett [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)]·Mansuri, Chris [INTERA, Austin, TX (United States)]·Gourgeot, Ronnie [INTERA, Austin, TX (United States)]
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The Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (WyoTCH) project completed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a commercial-scale, open-access carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) transport pipeline in Wyoming under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award DEFE0032347, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Carbon Capture Technology Program and administered by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The project’s approach of designing a multi-source, multi-destination pipeline, rather than a dedicated line serving a single project, would lower the barrier to entry for individual CO 2 projects. The projects would leverage Wyoming's concentrated industrial and power generation CO 2 sources, its existing CO 2 pipeline infrastructure, and its extensive CO 2 storage and utilization capacity. This is the project's final technical report.

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Ziev, Tracey [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)], Middleton, Richard [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)], Duque, Juan [Carbon Solutions LLC, Riverside, CA (United States)], Righetti, Tara [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)], Lewis, Madeleine Jane [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)], Forrest, Scarlett [Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)], Mansuri, Chris [INTERA, Austin, TX (United States)], Gourgeot, Ronnie [INTERA, Austin, TX (United States)]. 2026-08-07. Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (WyoTCH). https://doi.org/10.2172/3402220

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