The aim of the book is to provide an understanding of the current science underpinning Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and to provide students and interested researchers with sufficient background on the basics of Chemical Engineering, Material Science, and Geology that they can understand the current state of the art of the research in the field of CCS. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of the impact of CCS on the energy landscape, society, and climate as these topics govern the success of the science being done in this field.
The book is aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, scientists, and professionals who would like to gain a broad multidisciplinary view of the research that is being carried out to solve one of greatest challenges of our generation.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Energy and Electricity (740 KB)
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Contents:
- Energy and Electricity
- The Atmosphere and Climate Modeling
- The Carbon Cycle
- Introduction to Carbon Capture
- Absorption
- Adsorption
- Membranes
- Introduction to Geological Sequestration
- Fluids and Rocks
- Large-Scale Geological Carbon Sequestration
- Land Use and Geo-Engineering
- List of Symbols
- Credits
Readership: Students taking courses on environmental sciences and research level individuals who are interested in environmental issues related to CCS.
Berend Smit studied Chemical Engineering and Physics at the Technical University in Delft (The Netherlands). His PhD is in chemistry at Utrecht University. He worked at Shell Research in Amsterdam before he became Professor of Computational Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. He was elected director of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique Moléculaire (CECAM) in Lyon. At present, he works in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, where he is directing an Energy Frontier Research Center for the US Department of Energy (DOE) focused on Carbon Capture. Berend's research interests are in the development and applications of molecular simulation techniques. More details on his research can be found on his homepage: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/molsim/personal_pages/berend/
Jeffrey A Reimer received his degrees in chemistry from UC Santa Barbara and Caltech. After a postdoc at IBM Yorktown Heights, he joined the faculty at UC Berkeley where he is the C Judson King Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering. Professor Reimer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society and has won every teaching award given on the UC Berkeley campus. His research is focused on NMR spectroscopy, with particular attention to its design for, and application to, problems in materials physics and chemistry. For details, visit his homepage: http://india.cchem.berkeley.edu/~reimer/
Curtis M Oldenburg received his degrees in geology from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Babara with emphasis on igneous petrology and modeling magma dynamics. He came to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1990 as a postdoc and worked on model development and applications for strongly coupled flow problems in geothermal energy and vadose zone hydrogeology. When geological carbon sequestration research began in the late 1990s, he applied his experience with coupled flow problems to specialize in modeling and simulation of CO2 injection, trapping, leakage, and related risk assessment. Curt is the Head of the Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program at LBNL, and Editor in Chief of the Wiley journal, Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology.
For more information, visit his webpage: http://esd.lbl.gov/about/staff/curtisoldenburg/
Ian C Bourg received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Process Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse (France) and his doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley. In 2009, he joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2011, he has served on the executive committee of the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2, a DOE-supported Energy Frontiers Research Center. The goal of Dr Bourg's research is to develop a fundamental understanding of the properties of water at interfaces by using atomistic simulations and continuum-scale models. At the present time, his group is investigating the nanoscience of geologic carbon sequestration, the aquatic geochemistry of nanoporous media, and the molecular scale origin of kinetic isotope effects. More details on his research can be found on his homepage: http://esd.lbl.gov/about/staff/ianbourg/