UK-US CCS R&D Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA May 2010

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office co-hosted a workshop with DECC, RCUK, BGS, University of Edinburgh, NETL, BEG-University of Texas and the US State Department. The workshop's aim was to facilitate discussions between UK and US CCS researchers with a view to exploring the potential opportunities for collaboration and joint projects. There were separate capture and storage tracks to the workshop, with links to the presentations listed below. This workshop was held in Pittsburgh, USA on 10th May, associated with the 9th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration.

Presentations

• BGS experience in storage capacity estimates and advances in methodology: Michelle Bentham, BGS, UK


• Post Combustion Capture Research: Trevor Drage, University of Nottingham, UK


• Overview of CCS Research Activities:Paul Fennel, Imperial College London, UK


• Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Den Gammer, ETI (Energy Technologies Institute), UK


• U.S. DOE Revised Methodology for Development of Geologic Storage Potential for Carbon Dioxide: Angela Goodman, NETL, USA


• Carbon Capture & Sequestration Technologies @ MIT: Howard Herzog, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


• CO2 capture research in the Pittsburgh region: John Kitchin, National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA


• Process Development for Minimizing CO₂ Desorption Energy and Compression Work: Yongqi Lu, Illinois State Geological Survey, USA


• Centre for Energy and Resource Technology:John Oakey, Cranfield University, UK


• Static and Dynamic Estimates of CO2 Storage Capacity in Two Saline Formations in the UK North Sea: Eric Mackay, Heriot-Watt University and SCCS, UK


• Carbon Capture and Storage - UK Perspective: Jeremy Martin, DECC (UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change)


• Analytical solutions for assessing pressure buildup during CO2 injection in geological reservoirs: Simon A. Mathias, Durham University, UK


• Amines in Carbon Captureand Storage: Chris Rayner, University of Leeds, UK


• CO₂ Capture by Amine Scrubbing: Gary T. Rochelle, University of Texas at Austin, USA


• The IECM: A Plant-Level Simulation Model for Evaluating CO₂ Capture Options: Edward S. Rubin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA




• UK-US Capture Academics – A Possible Way Ahead