We investigate the physics, chemistry, and techno-economics of CO2 storage underground

Our research includes exploring fundamental pore scale fluid dynamics, developing digital rocks analysis techniques, increasing the accuracy of field scale reservoir simulation, and evaluating the feasibility of scaling up CO2 storage to climate relevant scales.

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StrataTrapper Advanced Modelling of CO2 Migration and Trapping

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THMC4CCS: ThorougH experiMental and numerical investigation of Coupled processes for geologiC Carbon ‎Storage

Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship

ExpReCCS: Expansion of ResourCes for CO2 Storage on the Horda Platform

inFUSE Prosperity Partnership

Shell Digital Rocks Laboratory

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@techreport{Budinis:2016,
author = {Budinis, S and Krevor, S and Mac, Dowell N and Brandon, N and Hawkes, A},
title = {Can technology unlock unburnable carbon?},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55971},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - RPRT
AB  - In 2015, the Conference Of the Parties in Paris (COP21) reached a universal agreement on climate change with the aim of limiting global warming to below 2 °C. In order to stay below 2 °C, the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released, or ‘carbon budget’ must be less than 1,000 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2. At the current emission rate, this budget will be eroded within the next thirty years. Meeting this target on a global scale is challenging and will require prompt and effective climate change mitigation action.The concept of ‘unburnable carbon’ emerged in 2011, and stems from theobservation that if all known fossil fuel reserves are extracted and converted to CO2 (unabated), it would exceed the carbon budget and have a very significant effect on the climate. Therefore, if global warming is to be limited to the COP21 target, some of the known fossil fuel reserves should remain unburnt.Several recent reports have highlighted the scale of the challenge, drawing on scenarios of climate change mitigation and their implications for the projected consumption of fossil fuels. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critical and available mitigation opportunity that is often overlooked. The positive contribution of CCS technology to timely and cost-effective decarbonisation of the energy system is widely recognised. However, while some studies have considered the role of CCS in enabling access to more fossil fuels, no detailed analysis on this issue has been undertaken.This White Paper presents a critical review focusing on the technologies that can be applied to enable access to, or ‘unlock’, fossil fuel reserves in a way that will meet climate targets and mitigate climate change.The paper includes an introduction to the key issues of carbon budgets and fossil fuel reserves, a detailed analysis of the current status of CCS technology, as well as a synthesis of a multi-model comparison study on global climate change mitigation strat
AU  - Budinis,S
AU  - Krevor,S
AU  - Mac,Dowell N
AU  - Brandon,N
AU  - Hawkes,A
PY  - 2016///
TI  - Can technology unlock unburnable carbon?
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55971
ER  -
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