Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, Utilisation and Storage: Research opportunities to impact climate change

Carbon dioxide capture, transport, utilisation and storage technologies (CCUS) have the potential to reduce overall mitigation costs of CO2 emissions and maintain the use of fossil fuels as an energy source in the short-term, whilst future non-fossil based fuel energy systems are developed and implemented. CCUS includes a portfolio of technologies consisting of the separation of CO2 from industrial and energy-related emission sources, its transport to a geological formation or its utilisation, resulting in long term isolation from the atmosphere. This presentation will review key areas of CCUS, including novel materials for efficient capture; modelling and experimental studies of geological storage; decentralised CCUS options, with a focus on mineralisation processes for above ground; solar fuels for CO2 photocatlaytic conversion and ecosystem responses to releases of CO2, including remote sensing technology.