Mathieu is Professor of Clean Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) at the University of Sheffield, and Deputy Director of the UKCCSRC. He has worked on CO2 capture and CCS since 2005 at Imperial College, University of Edinburgh and University Sheffield since 2022. His current research interests include reducing residual CO2 emissions from CCS to zero, derisking deployment of post-combustion capture, CCS for thermal power stations and in the waste sector, and Direct Air Capture.
In 2018, Mathieu launched the first Massive Open Online Course on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to increase awareness and understanding of the key role of CCS towards climate change mitigation. The course has now been taken by over 35,000 people in over 150 countries.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2024
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
UKCCSRC Research Project – Capture: AC4 Integration options for hydrogen and clean power synergies
Dr Muir Freer is an Environmental Engineer at the University of Manchester. His specialisations include CCS, Bioenergy, and high spatial resolution BECCS supply chain modelling. One key aspect of his work is the development of a digital twin for the UK’s CCS and freight transportation networks, a tool widely used in multiple research projects. Additionally, he focuses on modelling non-pipeline transportation methodologies, aiming to incorporate dispersed emitters into the UK’s CCS network. His expertise finds application in collaborations with industry, resulting in practical case studies. His ongoing contributions further understanding and lead to developing new decarbonisation pathways and strategies in the energy, transport, waste and agriculture sectors.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Efenwengbe Aminaho is a Research Consultant at A-Class Consults Limited. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Petroleum Engineering (with first class honours) from the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering (with distinction) from the University of Aberdeen. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Business and Management (with distinction), which he obtained from the University of Strathclyde. Efenwengbe engages in innovative research in environmental preservation, and sustainable energy development and storage. Thus, his research interests include carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen storage, future energy development, and their machine learning applications. Efenwengbe is currently a doctoral candidate at Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen), and conducting research on “Caprock integrity evaluation for geosequestration of CO2 in depleted petroleum reservoirs”. He is happy to work with industry experts and academics who are interested in CO2 and hydrogen storage or future energy development.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Dr Amir Jahanbakhsh is a Research Fellow and Programme manager at the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University. Amir has a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and he is also an experienced project manager. His research focus is on the understanding of the multiphase flow mechanisms in porous media at different scales using various techniques including CFD and microfluidics. Carbon capture and storage, geo-energy and more recently hydrogen economy have been his main area of research. Since he joined RCCS he has been involved in managing large multinational multidisciplinary consortium projects across CCUS value chain including MILEPOST-Microscale Processes Governing Global Sustainability (ERC), Low carbon jet fuel through the integration of novel technologies for co-valorisation of CO2 and biomass (EPSRC) and Novel adsorbents applied to integrated energy-efficient industrial CO2 capture (EPSRC), PrISMa – Process-Informed design of tailor-made Sorbent Materials for energy-efficient carbon capture (ERA-ACT2) and more recently USorb-DAC – Unlocking the scalable potential of sorbent-based DAC technologies (RMI).
Dr Stavros Michailos is a Lecturer at the University of Hull. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has post-doctoral experience at Aston University and the University of Sheffield. He has extensive experience and expertise in process design, modelling, lifecycle and techno-economic assessments of various low carbon energy systems such as carbon capture utilisation and storage, direct air capture (DAC) systems and their integration with conventional CO2 capture units, sustainable aviation fuel production technologies, biorefineries and decentralised energy solutions. He has published widely, over 40 research papers, book chapters and reports, and contributed to numerous multi-disciplinary programmes.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2024
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Dr Nejat Rahmanian is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bradford with over 24 years of experience in academia and industry, ranging from process and project engineering to research and development, and project management. He has been leading the MSc Program in Advanced Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (2015~) and is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist, and fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He was a member of the Advisory Board of a mega-scale research project, C4U (carbon capture, storage, and utilization) received funding of over €14m from Horizon 2020 led by UCL (2020~2025).
Nejat has been involved in about £3m research projects as PI, Co-I during his career, funded by EPSRC, HEFCE, QNRF, MOSTI (Malaysia), and the British Council. He has published 1 Book, 11 Chapter Books, and about 150 peer-reviewed articles and supervised over 60 master’s and 10 PhD projects in the UK and overseas. He delivered invited and keynote speeches at 25 national and international conferences. His research focuses on the CCUS, BECCS, H2 transportation/storage, and particle technology with applications in the energy, chemical, steel, cement and pharmaceutical industries.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2024
Recording – UKCCSRC Ongoing Web Series: Flexible funding 2022 projects
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Dr Tohid N.Borhani is a UK Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton with over 13 years of research experience and expertise in CO2 capture and utilisation. Before University of Wolverhampton, Tohid spent one year as Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University and several years as PostDoc (Research Associate) at Imperial College London, University of Sheffield, and Cranfield University. Dr Borhani has published over 40 papers in leading journals and 4 book chapters which are cited more than 1650 times and 30 conference presentations in the area of CO2 capture and utilisation and chemical engineering. Dr Borhani is currently involving strong industrial and academic collaborations and partnerships and supervising students. He is an academic member of the UKCCSRC and an Associate Member of the IChemE and a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Google Scholar: Tohid N.Borhani, PhD, FHEA – Google Scholar
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Dr Yongliang Yan is a research associate at Newcastle University working on the high-temperature solid-looping systems for carbon capture, thermochemical energy storage and clean hydrogen production. His research interests are focused on materials development, techno-economic analysis of energy process and harnessing the power of machine learning/AI in chemical engineering.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Dr Katriona Edlmann is the Chancellor’s Fellow in Energy at The University of Edinburgh, with over 25 years researching the secure and sustainable utilisation of the subsurface for low-carbon energy applications including hydrogen energy and CO2 storage. Katriona is responsible for several UKRI, EU and industry funded projects investigating underground hydrogen and CO2 storage technologies. Katriona currently serves as the Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry into Hydrogen and Carbon Capture in Scotland, is an invited member of the UK Government Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Hydrogen Advisory Council Transportation and Storage Infrastructure Working Group and is sub-task lead on the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme underground hydrogen storage task.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
Karen Turner is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde, where she leads a portfolio of work UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), philanthropic organisations such as the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Bellona Foundation and various government and industry bodies. She recently led a UKCCSRC project on the role of CCS in industry clusters in delivering value to the political economy. Karen’s main research interests lie in investigating and modelling the economy-wide and macroeconomic consequences of energy policy and industry developments, and considering how these may be effected, and consensus built around policy narratives, to enable the deployment of different decarbonisation solutions. She has published extensively in policy and economics literatures on topics such as making the case for public support of residential energy efficiency programmes and addressing public policy challenges in unlocking value from the deployment of large scale decarbonisation solutions such as electric vehicles and carbon capture and storage. Karen has previously held academic posts at Glasgow and Heriot Watt Universities and is currently a member of the Scottish Government’s Just Transitions Commission.
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2018
UKCCSRC Flexible Funding Project 2022
The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Community (UKCCSRC) is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Energy Programme.
The mission of the UKCCSRC is to ensure that carbon capture and storage (CCS) plays an effective role in helping the UK achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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