Increased green house gas emissions are expected to cause significant environmental and climatic
changes. One of the important concerns in these efforts is that most of the CO2 generation sites are not
necessarily close to the storage sites and this will require a network of pipelines for the transportation of
the super critical CO2 to storage sites. The development of the pipeline infrastructure for transport of
supercritical CO2 will play an important role in enabling carbon capture and storage (CCS) to be an
integral part of power generation and reduction of green house gas emissions. Corrosion issues
associated with impurities and contaminants in the CO2 have been studied by modelling the role of
various impurities on the condensation of a second phase as well as performing electrochemical
experiments in condensed phase conditions. The results of the work indicate that the presence of small
amounts of water can cause a high corrosion rate in carbon steel, and the presence of amines like MEA
(Mono Ethanol Amine) causes a significant decrease in the corrosion rate.