Integrated life cycle approaches for understanding carbon dioxide utilisation and sequestration pathways

This joint workshop with CO2Chem discussed life cycle assessment over carbon capture, utilisation and mitigation systems.

The meeting:

  • Explored the importance of lifecycle analysis for understanding the benefits of alternative utilisation and/or sequestration pathways for captured carbon dioxide.
  • Developed an agenda for future LCA based research spanning both CCS and CDU communities
  • Examined how CCS/CDU can contribute to European low-carbon energy security particularly through supply and process chain integration with other energy technologies (e.g by using CO2 for energy storage)
  • Fostered stronger links between the CDU, CCS and LCA communities

PROCEEDINGS

The meeting proceedings including agenda, presentations etc can be downloaded here
 

AGENDA

10:00 – 10:05      Peter Styring (Sheffield University) – Introduction to CO2Chem
10:10 – 10:40      Short updates from attendees about their research 
10:40 – 11:00      Niall Mac Dowell (Imperial College London) Multi-Scale Modelling of BECCS in the UK
11:00 – 11:20      Coffee
11:40 – 12:00      Peter Styring (University of Sheffield) Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Myths and Magic!
12:00 – 12:20      Campbell Skinner (University of Bangor) Energy Evaluation in Supercritical CO2 Extraction – click here to see the paper that was discussed at the meeting
12:20 – 13:20      Lunch
13:20 – 14:00      Niklas von der Assen (Aachen University) Current, Best and Future Practice of LCA for CO2 Utilization
14:00 – 16:00      Workshop Current, Best and Future Practice of LCA for CO2 Utilization
 
 
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