CO2 Capture, Utilization, & Storage

Description: The current global energy system relies on the combustion of fossil fuels to power the world economy. Fossil fuels are used to produce electricity and play a critical role in the industrial sector, particularly in the manufacture of cement, fertilizer, and steel. Fossil fuels are expected to play an important role in the future global energy system; however, technical solutions are needed to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a key technological approach that can achieve this goal. CCUS is a process that includes the separation of CO2 from a power station or industrial plant effluents, to be used as a feedstock for useful products and/or permanently stored deep underground in geological formations. This course will discuss the fundamental aspects of CCUS approaches at scale, including the potential benefits and risks of these options.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• Introduction to Engineering

Course Workload:

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Profiling disciplines

Goal

• Develop a thorough knowledge of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, utilisation and storage technologies and an understanding of their role in combating climate change and in the sustainable development of the energy sector

Objective

• Learners will be introduced to the main carbon dioxide capture technologies, including post-combustion capture, pre-capture and combustion, and their advantages and disadvantages

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Understand the main carbon dioxide capture technologies and their mechanisms of action

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• be able to explain different ways of utilising captured CO2 and assess their economic feasibility and environmental benefits

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Analyse CO2 storage methods, including the risks and benefits of geological storage

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• present their ideas and research results on CO2 capture, utilisation and storage technologies

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• Develop recommendations and strategies for implementing CO2 capture, utilisation and storage technologies based on analyses of specific conditions and needs