Fundamental of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

ABOUT THE COURSE:The carbon capture, utilization and storage course are very much important for engineering students belongs to petroleum engineers, Chemical, Fuel and even the course is important for general engineering students belongs to others specialization as well. The course is designed to cover the topics starting with necessities of CCUS, proceeding further with capturing the CO2 from different available techniques, different options of geological sequestration of CO2, utilizing the CO2 in enhancing the oil and gas production, and Modeling and cost estimation of CCUS project.INTENDED AUDIENCE: BTech, MTech, PhDPREREQUISITES: Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline would be preferrableINDUSTRY SUPPORT: ONGC, OIL, ESSAR, IOCL, CAIRN, GAIL

Syllabus

Week 1:
a. Overview of existing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions issues
b. Global carbon cycle & Life Cycle Analysis, with emphasis on GHG emissions, CCS, and CCUS options
Week 2:
a. Introduction & Necessity of CCS: global emissions, climate change, evidence of climate change
b. Concept of carbon trading
c. Concept of carbon credit and carbon footprint.
Week 3:Introduction to carbon storage and different sequestration (CCUS):
a. Biological carbon sequestration
i. Forests and woodlands biological carbon sequestration
ii. Soil biological carbon sequestration
iii. Ocean Biological carbon sequestration
b. Geological carbon sequestration
c. Technological Carbon Sequestration
d. Industrial Carbon Sequestration
Week 4:
a. Concept of Carbon Intensity
b. Carbon neutral vs net zero emission
c. Carbon capture technologies: post-combustion, precombustion, oxy-combustion
Week 5:Carbon capture methods: adsorption, absorption, membrane and cryogenic separation processes
Week 6:Carbon capture methods: adsorption, absorption, membrane and cryogenic separation processes
Week 7:CO2 Geological sequestration & Trapping Mechanism
Week 8:CO2 Geological sequestration & Trapping Mechanism
Week 9:CO2 Utilization: CO2 flooding- EOR
Week 10:CO2 Utilization: CO2 flooding and methane recovery-Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery
Week 11:
a. CO2 transport and subsurface injection: thermodynamics and kinetics of CO2 transportation, respective issues (gas hydrates), and their remedial measures
b. Underground CO2 sequestration-CO2 sequestration as hydrates
Week 12:
a. Carbon utilisation technologies: latest advances, promising technologies and their challenges.
b. Modeling of cost and performance of CCUS plants