Thank you to everyone who attended our recent Network Conference, and of course thank you to Cardiff University for hosting us. If you have feedback from the event please fill in this short survey. All feedback is factored into the planning of future events.
Below we have added the presentations that we have permission to publish along with the posters and Early Career Researcher Blogs.
View all the blogs from this conference here.
16 April 2019
8:30 – 11:30 | Gas Turbine Research Centre Tour Please note spaces on this tour are limited to 36 |
10:00 – 11:30 | Post-combustion capture retrofit – A topical seminar >>Read the blog |
11:30 – 12:30 | Registration and lunch |
12:30 – 12:45 | Opening remarks |
12:45 – 13:15 | An update from BEIS and EPSRC Brian Allison, Assistant Head CCUS R&D, Innovation and International Engagement, BEIS Lizzy Bent, Energy Programme Portfolio Manager, EPSRC >>Read the blog |
13:15 – 14:30 | International update Gearóid FitzGerald, Commercial CCS Manager, Ervia Jan Hopman, Director, CATO Elizabeth Horner, Majority Senior Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Jazmin Mota, PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh >>Read the blog |
14:30 – 15:00 | Break |
15:00 – 15:15 | Addressing the UK’s CO2 emissions using CCUS Jon Gibbins, Director, UKCCSRC |
15:15 – 16:45 | East coast cluster presentations Lindsay Armstrong, Lecturer, University of Southampton Carl Clayton, Drax Robin Irons, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Alan James, Managing Director, Pale Blue Dot Mark Lewis, Low Carbon Consultant, Tees Valley Combined Authority |
16:45 – 17:30 | West coast cluster presentations Gearóid FitzGerald, Commercial CCS Manager, Ervia Stuart McKay, Head of CCS Policy, Scottish Government Peter Whitton, Managing Director, Progressive Energy Chris Williams, Energy and CO2 Research Manager, Tata Steel |
17:30 – 18:30 | ![]() hosted poster session at Cardiff University |
19:30 – 20:00 | Arrivals and drinks reception at National Museum Cardiff |
20:00 – 23:00 | Evening Meal Dinner Speaker: Paul Brooks, Group Director, Health, Safety & Environment, Tata Steel |
17 April 2019
8:45 – 9:00 | Arrivals |
9:00 – 11:15 | Parallel Sessions: Capture Ben Anthony, Cranfield University David Danci, Imperial College London Jon Gibbins, Director, UKCCSRC Laura Herraiz, University of Edinburgh Mohamed Pourkashanian, University of Sheffield Matthias Schnellmann, University of Cambridge >>Read the blog Storage Silvia De Simone, Imperial College London Masoud Ahmadinia, Coventry University Georgos Papageorgiou, University of Edinburgh Jim White, British Geological Survey Luke Jenkins, University of Oxford >>Read the blog Systems & Policy Habiba Daggash, Imperial College London Niall MacDowell, Imperial College London Nick Pidgeon, Cardiff University David Reiner, University of Cambridge >>Read the blog |
11:15 – 11:45 | Break |
11:45 – 12:45 | Panel session: Interactions between clusters: the industry and policy perspectives Gearóid FitzGerald, Commercial CCS Manager, Ervia Jan Hopman, Director, CATO Julia Race, University of Strathclyde Peter Whitton, Managing Director, Progressive Energy James Watt, Process Engineering Manager, Wood plc. |
12:45 – 13:00 | Closing remarks |
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch and departures |
Conference Posters
Early Career Researcher Posters
Abdul’Aziz Aliyu: Process and system optimization of post-combustion capture with 40 wt.% MEA and twin absorber columns
Eduardo Garcia: Co-combustion of coal and spent coffee grounds blends in a fluidized bed reactor
Fidal Bashir: Techno-economic analysis of methanol production from biomass and steelworks off-gases (ECR poster competition winner)
Jennifer Rudd: Copper Foams as Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of CO2 to C3-Products
Juman Al-Saqlawi: The Carbonation of Bauxite Residue: A Techno-Economic Scoping Study
Junyoung Hwang: Supercritical adsorption of CO2 and CH4 inside clay nanopores for geological storage
Louise Hamdy: Cross-linked PEI as a Pure Organic CO2 Sorbent Enhanced via Additives of Hydrophobic Functionality
Patrick Brandl: Beyond 90% capture – feasible, but at what cost? (ECR poster competition winner)
Pooya Hoseinpoori: The role of CCS in decarbonising heating
Yoga Wienda Pratama: The robust value of CCS in a deeply decarbonised electricity system
Non-Early Career Researcher Posters
Paul Willson: Techno-Economic Study of A3C Capture Process
Peter Brownsort: CO2 shipping: accelerating CCS clusters