Prof Haroun Mahgerefteh

Haroun Mahgerefteh is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at UCL. His research spans all aspects of CCUS, particularly CO₂ pipeline safety and operational issues. He is the coordinator of several UKCCSRC funded projects and the EC FP7 and H₂020 projects, CO₂PipeHaz, CO₂QUEST and C4U involving the collaboration between academics and industry partners in Europe, China, Canada and USA. Project highlights include the development of best practice guidelines for injection of CO₂ into highly depleted gas fields and the construction of world’s longest fully instrumented CO₂ pipeline rupture test facility. Haroun is one of the two lead authors of the Zero Emission Platform  report titled ‘A Trans-European CO₂ Transportation Infrastructure for CCUS: Opportunities & Challenges’. The report is aimed at facilitating the development of a pipeline and ship infrastructure for transporting several Mt/yr of CO₂ captured from major regional industrial emitters for permanent offshore geological storage; considered as key enabler for meeting Net Zero emission target by 2030.

• UKCCSRC Flexible Funding 2018 Project