Postgraduate Course: Carbon Capture and Transport (PGGE11141)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course covers the basics of CO2 capture and transport technologies, and although its main focus is related to engineerign, no previous knowledge in engineerign is required. This course commences by introducing the topic of power generation from fossil fuels and biomass. Students will acquire general understanding of standard and advanced power generation technologies, their respective strengths and weaknesses. Consequently, based on this understanding, they will be introduced to a range of CO2 capture technologies, ranging from those commercially available to technologies still in the development/ demonstration stage. Students will gain a good general understanding of each technology and its operating principle and will be able to associate particular CO2 capture technology to a relevant power generation process, taking into account strengths and weaknesses of each capture technology and its compatibility with different power generation processes. Towards the end of the course, students will learn about the issues related to compression and transport of captured CO2 stream, including risks and the effects of impurties in the CO2 stream. During the course, several key lectures are given by industry and academic experts on the individual areas discussed, e.g. CO2 transport, so students can benefit from interaction with leading experts in the field. |
| Course description |
Week 1 - GHG emissions, GHG emissions reduction measures
Week 2 - power generation, power plants, power plant technologies
Week 3 - CO2 capture technologies 1 ¿ general overview
Week 4 - CO2 capture technologies 2 ¿ chemical and physical processes
Week 5 - CO2 capture technologies 3 ¿ absorption (Assignment 1 deadline)
Week 6 - CO2 capture technologies 4 ¿ adsorption
Week 7 - CO2 capture technologies 5 ¿ membranes, cryogenic, looping cycles
Week 8 - CO2 conditioning (Assignment 2 deadline)
Week 9 - CO2 transport
Week 10 - final revision of material covered by the course
This breakdown is only indicative and likely to change depending on circumstances, e.g. schedule of site visits, availability of guest speakers etc.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 40 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 44,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
152 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
80 %,
Coursework
20 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
60% written exam and 40% coursework (2 assignments at 20% each) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Carbon Capture and Transport | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
1) You will gain a good general understanding of CO2 capture technologies, their potential and limitations, the reasons for their deployment, operating principles and applications.
2) You will learn about treatment of captured CO2, its transport and related issues, such as risks and engineering challenges.
3) You will develop an ability to identify and explain the principles behind major CO2 capture technologies currently in use or close to commercialisation.
4) You will gain understanding of the directions in which the research into future technologies is heading, and impacts this may have.
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Reading List
Smit, B., Reimer, J. A., Oldenburg, C. M. and Bourg, I. C., 2014. Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Imperial College Press, London
Keith, D.W., 2009. Why capture CO2 from the atmosphere? Science, 325
(5948), 1654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1175680
J. Hansen, J. , Sato, M., Kharecha, P., Beerling, D., Berner, R., Masson-Delmotte, V., Pagani, M., Raymo, M., Royer, D. L., Zachos, J. C., 2008. Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? Open Atmos. Sci. J., vol. 2, 217. 10.2174/1874282300802010217
The Royal Society, ¿Geo-engineering the climate¿, Science, governance and uncertainty September 2009
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The emissions gap report 2012.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Climate change 2013: The physical science basis.
European Commission Joint Research Centre PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Trends in global CO2 emissions: 2013 report.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Carbon capture, power station design, capture-ready, transport |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ondrej Masek
Tel: (0131 6)50 5095
Email: ondrej.masek@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Alice Heatley
Tel: (0131 6)50 4866
Email: alice.heatley@ed.ac.uk |
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