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BA Webinar: Carbon Capture and Storage opportunities in WtE - towards negative emissions?
Mon 04 Nov 2019 16:00 — 17:00
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Registrations for this event are closed.
Bioenergy Australia Webinar Series
Supported by the International Energy Agency - Circular Economy Task
After almost thirty years of climate change negotiations, global CO2 levels are still rising. The UNFCCC Paris Agreement goals of holding global warming to ‘well-below’ 2°C and to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit it to 1.5°C are in stark contrast to the ever-dwindling carbon budget. The evidence makes it clear. CO2 needs to be removed from the atmosphere using negative emissions technologies to meet global warming targets.
Carbon capture and storage is broadly recognised as having the potential to play a key role in meeting climate change targets, enabling a range of processes to deliver low carbon heat and power, supporting industrial decarbonisation and, more recently, its ability to facilitate the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
By coupling Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with Waste to Energy (WtE) and other biomass utilization installations there is a real opportunity for these pathways to support negative GHG emissions whilst managing landfill-bound waste streams in an effective manner.
Carbon capture and storage is broadly recognised as having the potential to play a key role in meeting climate change targets, enabling a range of processes to deliver low carbon heat and power, supporting industrial decarbonisation and, more recently, its ability to facilitate the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
By coupling Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with Waste to Energy (WtE) and other biomass utilization installations there is a real opportunity for these pathways to support negative GHG emissions whilst managing landfill-bound waste streams in an effective manner.
This webinar will present a short overview of the topic including both technical and strategic/political considerations (challenges and opportunities, current R&D initiatives).
Anyone interested in the future of waste treatment is invited to join this webinar!
Anyone interested in the future of waste treatment is invited to join this webinar!
Agenda:
4.00 - 4.05 pm: Welcome
4.05 - 4.10 pm: Intro and update to IEA Bioenergy Task 36 – WtE as part of a Circular Economy (Daniel Roberts)
4.10 - 4.20 pm: Geological storage – a safe, long term solution for CO2 (Allison Hortle)
4.20 - 4.45 pm: Carbon capture and waste Incineration (Michael Becidan)
4.45 - 5.00 pm: Questions
Presenters:
Daniel Roberts - Daniel is the leader of CSIRO’s Hydrogen Energy Future Science Platform, and has over 20 years R&D experience studying the combustion and gasification fundamentals of a variety of feedstocks. He has a background in environmental chemistry and chemical engineering, and has led the delivery of a range of collaborative R&D activities in support of local and international gasification projects, more recently with a focus on conversion of waste and biomass to useful energy products. Daniel leads Australia’s participation in IEA Bioenergy Task 36.
Allison Hortle - Allison is currently a Research Group Leader within CSIRO responsible for the majority of CSIRO’s portfolio of storage research projects and researchers. This includes our national and international engagements. Allison has been involved in Storage research since it’s introduction into Australia via the APCRC in 1999. Druing this time she has been involved in and delivered research projects pertaining to most aspects of the storage value chain and gained considerable knowledge about the requirements for a safe and verifiable storage site. This includes consideration of reservoir properties for injectivity and storage capacity; faults and seal integrity; plume behaviour and prediction and methods to monitor and verify such predictions. In addition to numerous desktop studies, she has made research contributions to large scale demonstration, field and commercial projects, including the CO2CRC Otway Project, Stage 1 and Stage 2; Gorgon; South West Hub; CSIRO In-Situ Lab; CarbonNet; Zerogen and CTSCo.
Michaël Becidan - born 1978 in Paris, France. MSc from ENSCP (Chimie ParisTech, 2001), Paris, France. PhD on energy production from biomass and waste (2007), NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research since 2006. Has worked on various aspects of heat and power production from biomass and MSW with main focus on ash chemistry these last few years. Has been involved in a variety of national and European projects in various capacities. Has participated to several national and international networks (AvfallNorge, IEA Bioenergy task 36, PREWIN, EERA Bioenergy).
Cost:
Bioenergy Australia Members: FREE
Non-Members: $30 (excl GST)
Time:
Please note time is 16:00 to 17:00 AEDT