On Tuesday 4th of December, we were joined on Second Nature by Tara LaForce from Imperial College, London. Tara gave a fascinating talk all about her work investigating carbon capture and storage: can we capture carbon dioxide as it comes out of power plants, compress it, and store it long term in various geological structures such as oil reservoirs and deep saline aquifers?
For anyone who couldn’t make it, Tara’s talk, slides and references are available below. I’d like to thank Tara very much for coming, and if anyone has any comments or feedback for us or for Tara, please leave a comment or email me and I’ll be happy to pass it on.
Disclaimer: the recording of Tara’s talk was fairly poor quality, so we invited Tara into our studio to re-record after the event because we thought it would be better than the distorted original. We asked all the questions which were originally asked. This mp3 is the result. Any questions, let me know.
Tara’s talk and Q&A (mp3, 38 mins)
References:
Slide 3: Barker T., I. Bashmakov, L. Bernstein, J. E. Bogner, P. R. Bosch, R. Dave, O. R. Davidson, B. S. Fisher, S. Gupta, K. Halsnæs, G.J. Heij, S. Kahn Ribeiro, S. Kobayashi, M. D. Levine, D. L. Martino, O. Masera, B. Metz, L. A. Meyer, G.-J. Nabuurs, A. Najam, N. Nakicenovic, H. -H. Rogner, J. Roy, J. Sathaye, R. Schock, P. Shukla, R. E. H. Sims, P. Smith, D. A. Tirpak, D. Urge-Vorsatz, D. Zhou, 2007: Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O. R. Davidson, P. R. Bosch, R. Dave, L. A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
Slide 4:
International Energy Outlook 2007, Chapter 5: coal, US. Department of Energy, Report # DOE/EIA-0484(2007),
Slide 7:
Parson and Keith, Science, 282, 1053-1054, 1998.
Slides 9, 17:
Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, National Energy Technology Laboratory, US DOE, 2007,
Slide 11:
Unpublished data courtesy of Hu Dong
Slide 12:
Hesse, M.A., H.A.Tchelepi and F.M. Orr, Jr., “Scaling Analysis of the Migration of CO2 in Aquifers”, SPE 102796, Presented at the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, 24-27 Sept 2006
Slides 13-14:
Qi R., V. Beraldo, T. LaForce and M.J. Blunt, “Design of Carbon Dioxide Storage in the North Sea Using Streamline-Based Simulation,” SPE 109905, Presented at the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, CA, 11-14 Nov, 2007
Slide 15:
Riaz, A., M. Hhesse, H. A. Tchelepi and F. M. Orr Jr, Onset of convection in a gravitationally unstable diffusive boundary layer in porous media, J. Fluid Mech. 548, 87–11, 2006,
Slide 23:
Seto, C, Analytical Theory for Two-Phase Multcomponent Flow in Porous Media with Adsorption, PhD Diss. Stanford University, 2007
Slide 25:
Jessen, K., Tang, G-Q and Kovscek, A.R. Laboratory and Simulation Investigation of Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery by Gas Injection, Transport in Porous Media, Online Friday, October 12, 2007,
Slide 27:
IPCC, 2005: IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage . Prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Metz, B., O. Davidson, H. C. de Coninck, M. Loos, and L. A. Meyer (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 442 pp.
Slide 28:
Cook, P., CO2CRC a Global Perspective , Presentation, Dec 2005,