Science and Technology Advances on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

A special issue of Gases (ISSN 2673-5628). This special issue belongs to the section "Gas Control".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 9747

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Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, United States
Interests: CO2 utilization

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Center for the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, FloridaInternational University
Interests: Materials; Geoscience; Physics; Thermodyamics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The need for closing the carbon loop within the circular economy still prevails for numerous industrial sectors, particularly the energy and chemical industries. This gap translates into global emissions in the range of 37 Gton/y of carbon dioxide. Science and technology play an important role in dealing with this humankind problem by enabling the transition toward a circular economy with net zero wastes. Focusing on carbon dioxide emissions, capture, use/reuse, and storage (CCUS) have been widely investigated and have given rise to technologies that have reached different levels of readiness. This Special Issue will collect some of the scientific and technological advances on the capture of carbon dioxide from combustion, bio-based processes, industrial processes, or from the atmosphere, its utilization as a feedstock for the production of value-added products or services,  and its permanent storage in geological formations.

Authors are invited to submit original articles as well as review articles, contributing to close the C-loop, seeding new concepts and ideas for emerging technologies, and reporting successful results on scientific and technological advances within the CCUS space. This includes, but is not limited to, new concepts, novel designs, development, and optimization of capturing, utilization, and storage processes; chemical process technologies; new applications for CO2 utilization; physical process technologies for capturing, recovery, and purification of CO2; innovative (physical, chemical, geological, etc.) ways for storage; and existing, new, and emerging technologies for CCUS.

Dr. María Magdalena Ramírez-Corredores
Prof. Dr. Surendra Kumar Saxena
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • carbon dioxide
  • carbon capture
  • carbon dioxide recovery
  • separation processes
  • carbon dioxide reactivity
  • carbon dioxide conversion
  • carbon dioxide reactions
  • carbon dioxide utilization
  • carbon dioxide chemical processes
  • carbon storage
  • carbon sequestration
  • geological sequestration
  • carbon dioxide mineralization
  • circular economy
  • wastes processing

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A Visual Investigation of CO2 Convective Mixing in Water and Oil at the Pore Scale Using a Micromodel Apparatus at Reservoir Conditions
by Widuramina Amarasinghe, Seyed Farzaneh, Ingebret Fjelde, Mehran Sohrabi and Ying Guo
Gases 2021, 1(1), 53-67; https://doi.org/10.3390/gases1010005 - 28 Jan 2021
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CO2 convective mixing in water has been visualized in Hele-Shaw and PVT cell experiments but not at the pore scale. Furthermore, CO2 convective mixing in a three-phase system (i.e., CO2 in the presence of both water and oil) has not [...] Read more.
CO2 convective mixing in water has been visualized in Hele-Shaw and PVT cell experiments but not at the pore scale. Furthermore, CO2 convective mixing in a three-phase system (i.e., CO2 in the presence of both water and oil) has not been visually investigated. A vertically placed micromodel setup was used to visualize CO2 convective mixing at 100 bar and 50 °C, representative of reservoir conditions. To the best of our knowledge, for the first time, we have visually investigated CO2 convective mixing in water at the pore scale and also CO2 convective mixing in a multiphase system (water and oil). CO2 mixing in water governed by both diffusion and convection mechanisms was observed. The vertical CO2 transport velocity was calculated to be 0.3 mm/min in both a 100% water saturation system and a residual oil-saturated system. First, CO2 always found the easiest path through the connected pores, and then CO2 was transported into less connected pores and dead-end pores. CO2 transport into dead-end pores was slower than through the preferential path. CO2 transport into water-filled ganglia with trapped oil was observed and was slower than in water. Full article
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Adsorption Factors in Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery: A Review
by Theodora Noely Tambaria, Yuichi Sugai and Ronald Nguele
Gases 2022, 2(1), 1-21; https://doi.org/10.3390/gases2010001 - 14 Jan 2022
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Enhanced coal bed methane recovery using gas injection can provide increased methane extraction depending on the characteristics of the coal and the gas that is used. Accurate prediction of the extent of gas adsorption by coal are therefore important. Both experimental methods and [...] Read more.
Enhanced coal bed methane recovery using gas injection can provide increased methane extraction depending on the characteristics of the coal and the gas that is used. Accurate prediction of the extent of gas adsorption by coal are therefore important. Both experimental methods and modeling have been used to assess gas adsorption and its effects, including volumetric and gravimetric techniques, as well as the Ono–Kondo model and other numerical simulations. Thermodynamic parameters may be used to model adsorption on coal surfaces while adsorption isotherms can be used to predict adsorption on coal pores. In addition, density functional theory and grand canonical Monte Carlo methods may be employed. Complementary analytical techniques include Fourier transform infrared, Raman spectroscopy, XR diffraction, and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This review summarizes the cutting-edge research concerning the adsorption of CO2, N2, or mixture gas onto coal surfaces and into coal pores based on both experimental studies and simulations. Full article
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