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Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre
Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre –
Half-way through a major research programme on CCS
Professor Martin Blunt
Imperial College London
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Nat Geo Oct 2013
Projected sea-level rise
GDP per capita $109,900 ~£72,000 (World Bank)CO2 emissions per captia 35 tonnes (http://edgar.jrc.ec.europe.eu)77 MTPA LNG exported2 largest GtL plants~1,200 BOPD (UK 600-900)Largest aluminium smelterLarge petrochemical plants (QAFCO, QChem, QVC, QAFAC, etc.)
1st in the world for per capita emissions
Qatar
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10 years (2008-2018), $70 million funding
Understanding the underlying science in CCS applied in a Qatari context: carbonate geology, fluid characterization, multiphase flow in porous media and reservoir simulation.
Knowledge transfer to Qatar – establishment of laboratories in Qatar founded on best practice developed at Imperial College.
55 researchers
4 dedicated QCCSRC lecturers; 15 other academic faculty
7 post-docs and 35 PhD students (5 Qataris)
5 major laboratories established in London
100 papers published/in review, See www.imperial.ac.uk/qccsrc
The project at Imperial
Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre
Multi-scale imaging lab
Start with the fundamentals – understand processes experimentally at the pore scale. Micron-to-metre imaging with in situ displacement at reservoir conditions. Just some of the work – fluids, simulation etc.
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Micro-CT – Flow loop: look inside rocks at the pore scale
Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre Visualize trapped CO2
Pentland et al., Geophysical Research Letters (2011)
How much is trapped and how much can be stored?
Results in sandstones and carbonates.
Just a taste of what we can do!
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