Novel approaches to carbon management : separation, capture, sequestration, and conversion to useful products : workshop report / Committee on Novel Approaches to the Management of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Systems, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Divion on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Committee on Novel Approaches to the Management of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Systems, Corporate Author.

Conference Name:

Workshop on Novel Approaches to Carbon Management (2003 : Irvine, Calif.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carbon--Congresses.

Carbon.

Group 14 elements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (45 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee on Novel Approaches to the Management of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Systems held a workshop at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on February 12-14, 2003, to identify promising lines of research that could lead to currently unforeseen breakthroughs in the management of carbon from energy systems. The information identified by participants in the workshop will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) to award grants for new research in carbon management. During the workshop, invited participants from a variety of disciplines contributed their expertise and creativity to addressing the problem of carbon management. The ideas developed during the workshop were synthesized into this report by the committee, which oversaw the organization and execution of the workshop. However, this workshop summary does not contain any committee conclusions or recommendations, but simply reports on research areas that were identified as promising during the workshop discussions. The purpose of the workshop, as noted, was to identify novel approaches to the management of carbon from energy systems. The workshop is part of a project conducted by the NRC for DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (DOE/FE). DOE/FE will consider the workshop report as it develops a solicitation to be issued in spring 2003. The solicitation will call for research proposals on enabling science and technology research on novel approaches for the management of carbon from energy systems. Chapters 2 through 6 of this report summarize the most promising new ideas on carbon management identified by each of the four subgroups at the workshop. In the respective chapters, the ideas are described, their significance is explained, and research opportunities are listed. Each chapter includes a statement of the scientific and engineering challenges related to its topic. Chapter 6 includes crosscutting issues not specific to one of the four subgroups. The chapters themselves do not include detailed analysis regarding feasibility, energy and mass balance, and so forth, as the workshop's time and scope did not permit this; it is assumed such analyses will be carried out in the research proposals that DOE funds.

Contents:

NOVEL APPROACHES TO CARBON MANAGEMENT

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Advanced Separations Techniques

CO2 ABSORBENTS

CO2 SORBENTS

NANOSCALE MATERIALS AS SEPARATION AGENTS

HIGH-TEMPERATURE MEMBRANES

ELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES FOR GAS SEPARATIONS

SMALL-SCALE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED CO2 RECOVERY PROCESSES

CARBON MANAGEMENT THROUGH CARBON MONOXIDE

NOVEL HYDROGEN STORAGE CONCEPTS

3 Advanced Subsurface Technologies

UNCONVENTIONAL CO2 STORAGE FORMATIONS

Research Areas

INCREASED USE OF CO2 IN ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY

MICROBIAL HYDROGEN GENERATION FROM FOSSIL FUELS AT DEPTH, WITH SUBSURFACE FUEL CELL COUPLING

DEEP-SEA CONTAINED STORAGE

4 Advanced Geochemical Methods for Sequestering Carbon

CHEMICALLY ENHANCED WEATHERING

BIOLOGICALLY MEDIATED ENHANCEMENT OF WEATHERING PROCESSES

MICROBIAL FIXATION OF CO2 TO FORM CARBONATE MINERALS

FORMATION OF IRON CARBONATES

ENHANCED DISSOLUTION OF CO2 IN BRINES

Soils

5 Novel Niches

INTRODUCTION

BIOMASS MANAGEMENT

Research Opportunities

CATALYTIC AND/OR PHOTOLYTIC REDUCTION OF CO2

BIOCATALYSTS FOR CO2 BINDING AND REDUCTION

TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES

6 Crosscutting Issues

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL STRUCTURE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

CROSSCUTTING ANALYTICAL AND ENGINEERING ISSUES

Monitoring and Containment Technologies Following Subsurface CO2 Sequestration

Technology Opportunities

Subsurface Technologies: Risk Assessment

Engineering Systems Analysis for Optimum CO2 Reduction or Sequestration

Research Opportunities.

Appendix A Workshop Participants

LISTINGS BY SESSION

Plenary Session (speakers)

Group 1-Advanced Separations Techniques

Group 2-Advanced Subsurface Technologies

Group 3-Advanced Geochemical Methods

Group 4-Novel Niches

Appendix B Workshop Agenda.

Notes:

"National Research Council (NRC) Workshop on Novel Approaches to Carbon Management held in Irvine, California on February 12-14, 2003."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-16800-7

1-280-17971-6

9786610179718

0-309-58888-X

OCLC:

70744021