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 will commence by introducing the topic of climate change, power generation from fossil fuels and biomass, and associated GHG emissions. Students will acquire general knowledge of standard and advanced power generation technologies and understanding of their respective strengths and weaknesses. Consequently, based on this understanding, students will be introduced to a range of CO2 capture technologies, ranging from those commercially available to technologies still in the development stage. They will acquire a thorough 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. In addition to carbon capture from point sources, carbon negative technologies, such as atmospheric carbon capture, biochar and bioenergy with CCS will also be covered. Following that, students will learn about the issues related to compression and transport of captured CO2 stream. They will be presented with different ways of CO2 transport and will become familiar with topics such as CO2 properties under transport conditions, impurities present in CO2 streams from different generation/capture systems and the effects of impurities on CO2 compression and transport. In addition, the risks associated with CO2 transport will be discussed. Besides technologies for CO2 capture from power generation and industries, atmospheric CO2 capture, and other negative emissions technologies will also be covered. |
| Course description |
Week 1 - Climate change, GHG emissions, GHG emissions reduction measures
Week 2 - Fossil fuel power generation, power plants, power plant technologies
Week 3 - CO2 capture processes, post-combustion capture technologies
Week 4 - CO2 capture technologies - post-combustion capture
Week 5 - Assignment 1 presentations
Week 6 - Pre-combustion CO2capture, oxy-combustion, gas cleaning
Week 7 - advanced CO2 capture, industrial CO2 capture, bioenergy with CCS (BECCS)
Week 8 - Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technologies
Week 9 - CO2 conditioning and transport
Week 10 - CO2 transport (pipelines and shipping)
Week 11- 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.
Each session is a combination of lectures, group work and group presentations on different topics each week.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | There are no prerequisite courses. Background in science or engineering is advantageous, but not essential. |
| Additional Costs | None. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 60 |
| 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
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assessment consists of two parts, course work at 40% (2 assignments at 20% each), and 60% written exam at the end of the course.
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| Feedback |
Students will receive formative feedback on their activities (e.g. presentation) throughout the course. Feedback on the submitted course work will be given via Learn through the Turnitin grademarker which will be used to attach comments throughout submitted documents. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss in general terms key CO2 capture technologies, their potential and limitations, the reasons for their deployment, operating principles and applications.
- Describe options for treatment of captured CO2, its transport and related issues, such as risks and engineering challenges.
- Identify and explain the principles behind major CO2 capture technologies currently in use or close to commercialisation.
- Describe 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
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Course secretary | Ms Kathryn Will
Tel: (0131 6)50 2624
Email: |
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