Due to the ongoing situation with coronavirus (COVID-19), we decided to significantly change our usual programme to support and engage with our CCS community.
Beginning on 30th March and running until 10th July, we hosted a mix of regular informal and formal drop-in sessions each week, with an ongoing programme of weekly virtual lectures (followed by a Q&A and discussion) on Fridays at 3pm. All events were free to attend and you didn’t need to be a member to access them.
Please see the new Summer Web Series page for details of our programme throughout the summer.
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| Date & time (all times GMT) | Session | Speaker |
| Monday 30th March, 4-5pm | Virtual coffee | David Reiner (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Systems and Policy) |
| Tuesday 31st March, 4-5pm | Virtual coffee | Stuart Haszeldine (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Storage) |
| Wednesday 1st April, 4-5pm | Virtual coffee | Paul Fennell (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Capture) |
| Thursday 2nd April, 4-5pm | Virtual coffee | Jon Gibbins (UKCCSRC Director) |
| Friday 3rd April, 3pm | Guest lecture: An Introduction to the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge | Dr Bryony Livesey, Challenge Director for Industrial Decarbonisation, UKRI |
| Monday 6th April, 4-5pm | Research conversations | Jon Gibbins (UKCCSRC Director) |
| Wednesday 8th April, 4-5pm | Informal drop-in session | Jon Gibbins (UKCCSRC Director) |
| Wednesday 15th April, 4-5pm | Some initial thoughts on the impacts of COVID-19 on energy markets and CCS | David Reiner (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Systems and Policy) |
| Friday 17th April, 3pm | Guest lecture: Delivering Net-Zero | Professor Myles Allen, Head of the Climate Dynamics Group, University of Oxford |
| Wednesday 22nd April, 4-5pm | Novel CCS in the Iron and Steel Industry | Paul Fennell (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Capture) |
| Friday 24th April, 3pm | Lecture: UK CCS Deployment: Experience Since 2005 – and a New Competition? | Jon Gibbins (UKCCSRC Director) |
| Wednesday 29th April, 4-5pm | CO2 Storage 101 for the Geologically Aspiring | Stuart Haszeldine (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Storage) |
| Friday 1st May, 3pm | Guest lecture: Legal and Regulatory Issues Around Developing CCUS Projects | Dalia Majumder-Russell, Senior Associate (Energy), CMS Law |
| Tuesday 5th May, 2pm-4.15pm | Poster session: 7 presentations with discussions (click for details) | Chaired by Patrick Brandl and Louise Hamdy |
| Wednesday 6th May, 4-5pm | Helping pave the way to net zero – new technology with huge potential A study of temperature effects in the Bunter Closure 36, a potential large-scale CO2 storage site in UK | Helen Atkinson, C-Capture & Paolo Orsini, OpenGoSim Ltd |
| Tuesday 12th May, 2pm-4.15pm | Poster session: 7 presentations with discussions (click for details) | Chaired by Pooya Hoseinoori and Catherine Spurin |
| Friday 15th May, 3pm | Guest lecture: Is 2020 the Beginning of the End for Oil in the UK, with Demand Collapse and the End of Conspicuous Consumption, or will Fossil-fuelled Political Liberalism Re-emerge? | Dr Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia, and Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion |
| Wednesday 20th May, 4-5pm | CCS and Hydrogen: Hydrogen Combustion, gas turbines and prospects for 100% Hydrogen & Hydrogen Storage | Jon Runyon, Cardiff University and John Williams, BGS. Chaired by Reace Edwards, University of Chester |
| Friday 22nd May, 3pm | Guest lecture: How can we ensure prosperity in the race to Net Zero? The challenge of balancing industrial decarbonisation and the ‘Just Transition’ | Professor Karen Turner, Director of the Centre for Energy Policy, University of Strathclyde |
| Wednesday 27th May, 4-5pm | Climate in a Time of COVID: Results from the 2020 UKCCSRC Survey on Energy and Climate | David Reiner (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Systems and Policy) |
| Friday 29th May, 3pm | Guest Lecture: CCUS developments in the Netherlands | Jan Hopman, Director of CATO – CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage in the Netherlands |
| Wednesday 3rd June, 4-5pm | Discussion session: How can we communicate the importance of CCS for tackling climate change? | Chaired by Jon Gibbins |
| Friday 5th June, 3pm | Guest lecture: An update to The Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) | Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Champion UK Industrial Decarbonisation-IDRIC |
| Wednesday 10th June, 4-5pm | CCUS Cluster updates: North West and Scotland | Joe Howe, Executive Director, Thornton Energy Research Institute and Mike Smith, CEO, NECCUS |
| Friday 12th June, 3pm | Guest lecture: The Norwegian CCS Research Centre in light of the plans for a full scale CCS chain | Dr Mona Mølnvik, Research Director for Gas technology, SINTEF |
| Wednesday 17th June, 4-5pm | CCUS Cluster updates: Teesside and Humber | Sarah Tennison, Tees Valley Combined Authority; Colin McGill, BP; Katie Hedges, CATCH UK and David Talbot, CATCH UK |
| Friday 19th June, 3pm | Guest lecture: Why CCUS should fit in with a post COVID-19 recovery | Luke Warren, Chief Executive, Carbon Capture and Storage Association |
| Wednesday 24th June, 4-5pm | Socially equitable net zero transitions | Niall Mac Dowell, Reader in Energy Systems, Imperial College London |
| Friday 26th June, 3pm | Lecture: Insights into post-combustion capture knowledge-building and cost-reduction through open-access deployment activities | Jon Gibbins (UKCCSRC Director) |
| Wednesday 1st July, 4-5pm | CCUS Cluster updates: South Wales and Solent | Chris Williams, Tata Steel and Lindsay Armstrong, University of Southampton |
| Friday 3rd July, 3pm | Guest lecture: Framing effects on public support for CCS | Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, University of Cardiff |
| Wednesday 8th July, 4-5pm | CO2 Capture 101 | Paul Fennell (UKCCSRC Deputy Director: Capture) |
| Friday 10th July, 3pm | Guest lecture: What can we learn from other industries about using public funding to make CCS investable? | Jeremy Carey, Director of Exergetic and Chair of the UKCCSRC Board |
Spring 2020 – Recordings
Presentation slides
Presentations from the webinars can be found below (where we have permission to share them). Click on the tile to see each presentation’s slides.
Poster presentations
Our first poster session was on Tuesday 5th May, 2-4pm, chaired by Patrick Brandl and Louise Hamdy. See the schedule here.
Our second poster session was on Tuesday 12th May, 2-4pm, chaired by Pooya Hoseinpoori and Catherine Spurin. See the schedule here.
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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D03 Ella Armitage Building
University of Sheffield
40 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
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