
Welcoming people and giving an overall brief about the 6 modules.
i) Greenhouse effect
ii) Carbon cycle
iii) Facts about effect of CO2
iv) Kyoto Protocol-Dec. 1997
i) The Paris Climate Change Agreement-Dec. 2015
ii) CCUS (Carbon Capture Usage and Storage)
i) Definitions
ii) CCU (Carbon Capture & Usage)
iii) CCS (Carbon Capture Storage) vs other options
i) Electricity and Hydrogen low carbon energy vectors
ii) Different classes of CCS
iii)Sankey diagram
iv) Hydrogen
v) H2 versus Natural Gas for Decarbonisation
i) Likeliness of 100% Renewable Energy usage
ii) Electricity
(i) Pre-combustion
(ii) Post-combustion
iii) Oxyfuel Combustion
-New Carbon Capture Technology
-Carbon Capture Methods-Diagram
-CO2 Separation Methods-Diagram
10 of the most frequently proposed negative emissions technologies (NETs):
i) Afforestation and reforestation
ii) Biochar
iii) BECCS
iv) “Blue carbon” habitat restoration
v) Building with biomass
vi) Cloud or ocean treatment with alkali
vii) Direct Air Capture (DAC)
viii) Enhanced ocean productivity
ix) Enhanced weathering
x) Soil carbon sequestration
i) What does geological storage of CO2 mean
ii) Options for geological storage
iii) Type of rocks and features
iv) Trapping Mechanisms
v) CO2 and behaviors
vi) CO2 Leakage, Monitoring and Stoppage
vii) Storage capacity
Recap some of the important issues covered earlier:
1- CCU
2- Technologies and energy vectors other than CCUS
3- Geological storages
4- Storage capacity
5- CCS technologies
What are the Challenges:
1- Commercial
2- People misconception
3- Policies and Regulations
Policy and Regulations to encourage CCS
Existing regulations which also applies to CCS
Extra read for CO2 Best Guidelines, Practices, and Reports storage
The purpose of Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) course is that to inform you:
1. Why none of the existing technology can single-handedly handle our Climate Change crises.
2. Why many expert believe great investment required in CCS in parallel with existing/new technologies and energy vectors to be able to achieve 2050 goals.
3. How CCUS can offer a long-term solution to help climate change by keeping the temperature well below 2 ºC of global temperature rise.
In this course in addition to various CCUS technologies as one of the method of preventing CO2 emission we also look at some of the global agreements, policies, regulations, best practices, Carbon negative technologies, Renewable energy, Energy vector such as H2 and Electricity, types of geological storage, Global CO2 capacity, and costs of Carbon Capture and Carbon negative technologies.
Finally we finish with some of the important issues such as:
1. Priority for the climate is to stop emissions of CO2 from entering the atmosphere and STOP diverting attention from the end game by too much emphasis on specific Technology or Energy Vector. Hence, to achieve 2050 goals all Existing/New technologies & Energy Vectors must be considered.
2. Also, developing countries issues such as lack of fresh water, treatment system, infrastructure, and investment need to be dealt with since climate change is a global issue otherwise we would not achieve our 2050 goals.