Webinars & Conference Presentations
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 8:30am
AIChE
Thermocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol has recently gained considerable attention because it is regarded as an optimal solution to mitigate CO2 emissions while generating revenues to offset carbon management costs. Currently, commercial...Read more
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 5:00pm
AIChE
Given the EPA’s proposed rules on limiting CO2 emissions from new coal power plants to match those of natural gas, blending of carbon-neutral biomass with coal is an increasingly attractive option for power producers. Further, gasification technologies that...Read more
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 4:00pm
AIChE
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forest residues were physically fractionated through sieving. The bark and wood were separated for large-sized fractions (>12.7 mm) and their contents were determined. The chemical compositions of the large fractions...Read more
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 9:15am
AIChE
Gold supported alumina catalysts were studied for selective CO oxidation, in order to provide appropriate H2 for PEM fuel cell. The catalysts were prepared by deposition-precipitation method using HAuCl4 as precursor of gold. The catalysts showed high...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:30pm
AIChE
Utilization of captured CO2 provides an advantageous alternative especially in locations where CO2 sequestration in geologic media is not feasible. Making high value chemical products from CO2, although not sufficient to convert a significant...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:00pm
AIChE
In this paper, we will discuss a design of an electrochemical cell for CO2 reduction implementing a proton exchange membrane (PEM) by adding a liquid buffer layer between the membrane and the cathode electrode. This configuration enables production of liquid fuels...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:00pm
AIChE
Escalating CO2 emissions due to increasing fossil fuel consumption is generally acknowledged as one of the major contributors to global warming. Therefore, the development of methods for reducing the amount of CO2 released is a major challenge...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 3:15pm
AIChE
Barring the imposition of a carbon tax (or equivalent cap-and-trade program) and corresponding international agreements, it is highly unlikely that carbon capture and storage/sequestration (CCS) will be implemented in any meaningful way in the near future. This is due to...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 2:45pm
AIChE
Post-Combustion Gas Permeation Carbon Capture System Models
Juan E. Morinelly, David C. Miller
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
Gas permeation membranes have been proposed as an alternative to amine
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:45pm
AIChE
Coupling industrial carbon mineralisation and ocean alkalinity enhancement
Introduction
The ocean carbonate system has the potential to store ~102 - 103 billions of tonnes of CO2as a stable bicarbonate solution. Some
...Read moreTuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:45pm
AIChE
Large scale CO2 Capture and Storage has been considered to be one of the most promising ways of mitigating anthropogenic CO2 emissions, but energy penalty, high economic costs and possible environmental impacts are important barriers for its deployment....Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:30pm
AIChE
Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) is an efficient method for gas separation, and is a potential candidate for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from power plants. However, few PSA cycles have been designed for this purpose and the optimization of PSA systems for CO
...Read moreTuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:15pm
AIChE
Abstract
While geologic sequestration method may be used to store large volumes of CO2, it involves two distinct steps, i.e., capture and storage, with the former being a more costly step. Also, finding suitable storage
...Read moreTuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:15pm
AIChE
Studies on four leading technologies for industrial CO2 capture are performed. The technologies are MEA-based chemical absorption, multi-stage membrane, pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and vacuum swing adsorption (VSA). Each process is rigorously modeled, optimized...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 10:15am
AIChE
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has developed a model to estimate the costs of storing captured CO2. This model includes the range of costs from initial regional geologic evaluation through site characterization,...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 9:45am
AIChE
The current status of performance and cost estimates for CCUS in power plant applications will be reviewed in this presentation, along with a discussion of the factors that most strongly influence these costs. Because of the large number of variables involved in assessing the...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 9:00am
AIChE
According to the US Department of Energy, there is scientific evidence that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have caused climate change and that a reduction of these emissions is essential for reducing the risk of future devastating effects. At present, the leading...Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 8:30am
AIChE
There are significant differences in the methods employed by various organizations to estimate the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems for fossil fuel power plants. Such differences often are not readily apparent in publicly reported CCS cost estimates. As a...Read more
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 12:30pm
AIChE
Fossil fuels currently comprise more than 80 percent of global (and U.S.) energy consumption and are expected to continue to play a critical role in meeting the world’s energy needs for the foreseeable future. Making use of these fuel sources in a cost-effective and...Read more
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 9:30am
AIChE
SAPO-34 membranes have pores with a diameter of approximately 0.38 nm and have the potential to be used for large scale removal of CO2 impurities from natural gas. Tubular SAPO-34 membranes have been shown previously to have high permeances and selectivities at high...Read more
Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 8:00pm
AIChE
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been characterized as the technology that can jump start mitigation of greenhouse gases until new, less carbon intensive technology can be implemented to provide electrical power, transportation fuels and energy our society needs to stay competitive in the...Read more
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
Multiphase porous medium adsorption/desorption model for CO2 capture applications
Denis Lukanin1*, Amit Halder2, and Ameya Joshi2
1Corning Science Center, Corning SNG, St.Petersburg (Russia)
2Modeling
...Read moreTuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
AICHE ABSTRACT
CO2 Separation from Coal-Fired Power Plants by Regenerable Mg(OH)2 Solutions
Hari K. Bharadwaj†, Joo-Youp Lee† *, Xiang Zhou‡, Lei Cheng‡, Tim C. Keener‡
...Read moreMonday, October 17, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
The world currently faces an enormous energy challenge. LanzaTech responds to this challenge by capturing and beneficially reusing waste carbon to make low carbon fuels and chemicals. The International Energy Outlook, in its 2010 reference case, projects that world primary...Read more
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
The separation of CO2 is an important topic in thermal separation science. The scrubbing of carbon dioxide from exhaust gases has gained more interest in the last years to reduce the emissions of green for counteracting global warming but is also an important...Read more
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
IfS - Institute for Sustainability
A novel Integrated Vacuum Carbonate Absorption Process (IVCAP) for post-combustion CO2 capture is being developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A key technical aspect of this process is to employ a biocatalyst, carbonic anhydrase (CA...Read more
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
As a part of this work, we have performed a comparison of 4 amine-based absorbents using the process simulation software ProMax® with TSWEET®. Absorbents were compared at pulverized coal fired power plant flue gas conditions. The criteria for comparison of...Read more
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
Solid sorbent carbon capture systems have the potential to require significantly lower regeneration energy compared to aqueous monoethanol amine (MEA) systems. To date, the majority of work on solid sorbents has focused on developing the sorbent materials themselves. In...Read more
Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is widely regarded as an effective medium-term CO2 abatement technology. However, high cost of the capture technologies, at their current state of the art, and the huge upfront costs of the CO2 transport pipelines and...Read more
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:00pm
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, major contributors to the greenhouse effect, are considered as the main cause of global warming. So, decrease of CO2 emitted by large industrial combustion sources or power plants, is an important...Read more