COP21 recognises the need for Carbon Capture & Storage for COâ‚‚ reduction
With an agreement reached in Paris at COP21 and Carbon Capture and Storage playing a key role in the reduction of COâ‚‚ especially for industrial emitters, the Materials Processing Institute is in a key position to use its expertise in industrial scale up and applying technologies to existing industries to help CCS play its part. To support this, James Taylor, a Researcher with the Materials Processing Institute has recently returned from Perth, Australia where he attended a summer school on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a key method of reducing COâ‚‚emissions.
The summer school was organised by the IEAGHG (International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme) and hosted by the Australian Carbon Capture & Storage Community. Held at the University of Western Australia in Perth, the week long summer school was attended by 30 invited delegates from around the world and with a range of academia and industrial backgrounds.
The summer school included a comprehensive series of lectures covering the whole carbon capture and storage chain; from the technical aspects of the geology of storage sites and the sources and methods of capture, through to the key issues of regulatory framework and public perception of CCS.
Delegates took an active role and worked on a series of group presentations based around carbon capture and storage. James was part of the group presenting on “Is CCS a viable option of developing countries?” which concluded “Yes” with conditions relating especially to the regulatory frameworks needed to provide a business case for carbon capture and storage.
11 January 2016
