UK Carbon Capture & Storage Community Network Biannual Meeting
Cornwall 2011

This event brought together all fields of CCS research in addition to government and industry allowing attendees to network amongst other CCS researchers and interested non-academics, to update themselves on recent developments in the CCS academic research scene and reinforce links between various project teams. The focus of this meeting was on CCS in the marine environment. Please find the agenda and presentations below.

Meeting agenda

Presentations

Day 1:

• C. Mitchell, University of Exeter Welcome and how CCS can fit into energy policy


• J. Williams, EPSRC CCS research funding update


• J. Blackford, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Introduction to marine issues


• B. Chen, Heriot-Watt University Calculating the footprint: Dispersion of CO2 in the sediments and the water column


• C. Hauton, University of Southampton Quantifying the impact: Impacts of excess CO₂ on marine flora and fauna


• I. Wright, National Oceanography Centre Monitoring for leaks: Challenges and solutions for marine monitoring


• A. Whitfield, Environment Agency Environmental risk assessment for CCS


Day 2:

• X. Liang, University of Edinburgh CCS Policy and Technology progress in China


• X. Fan, University of Edinburgh FOCUS - Fundamentals of Optimised Capture Using Solids


• S. Scott, University of Cambridge Multi-scale evaluation of advanced technologies for capturing the CO₂: chemical looping applied to solid fuels


• C. Snape, University of Nottingham The Next Generation of Activated Carbon Adsorbents for the Pre-Combustion Capture of CO₂


• C. Ferrari, University of Edinburgh Nanotubes for Carbon Capture


• M. Billson, DECC DECC CCS Roadmap – Research and Development Strand


Poster abstracts