Carbon Dioxide Capture and Removal Methodologies Advances and Current Status

Carbon Dioxide is one of the most important polluters of earth’s atmosphere. CO2 is mainly generated by human related activities such as combustion, transportation, energy generation, industrial manufacturing and others. It has proved to greatly contribute to the green house effect and to the subsequent rising of earth’s atmosphere. CO2 emissions rights are also evolving into a very significant ‘product’ for various countries, efficiently transforming their economies. Carbon Dioxide capture technologies have been investigated greatly in the last two decades. This course aims at explaining science, targets, requirements, advances and prospects in the current field.

Objective

By the end of the course, participants should have:

• An overview of the advances of the last two decades in carbon dioxide capture and removal
• Methodologies/ technologies for CO2 removal from gaseous mixtures
• A detailed knowledge of all materials used as separators/ adsorbents for CO2 treatment
• A detailed understanding of carbon capture and sequestration approaches
• Understanding of different formations, their capacities and properties
• Specific applications including transportation, energy generation, industrial applications
• Separations membranes
• Adsorbents
• Understanding of mechanisms involved in the CO2 removal [solubility, diffusivity, adsorption, and others]
• Understanding of all models describing the removal process
• Knowledge of all recent advances and breakthroughs
• Investing opportunities
• Future prospects
• Sequestration specifics
• Treatment schemes

Course Outline

• Carbon Dioxide generation processes
• Environmental effects
• Removal approaches
• Pre combustion capture
• Post combustion capture
• Oxy capture
• Types of formations [saline, unmineable, ...]
• Trapping mechanisms
• Capacity of formations
• Separation approaches
• Membranes
• Adsorbents
• Absorbents
• Sequestration approaches
• Sequestration reservoirs
• Geological sequestration
• Injection technology
• Economics
• Physical and chemical properties of CO2 in the formation
• Enhanced oil recovery via CO2
• Methodologies’ enthalpies, quantities, kinetics and thermodynamics
• Adsorbent structures
• Novel adsorbents [Molecular Printed Polymers, Hybrid Ordered Microporous matrices, etc]
• Adsorbent 3D models
• Current status
• Advances and breakthroughs
• Computational Chemistry help
• Investing case studies
• CO2 emissions rights
• Summary, Conclusions and analysis of near future achievements