ERPE 365 Carbon Capture and Storage

The course includes :

Introduction to the course (energy and environment, Paris Agreement), review of current CCS projects
review of two-phase fluid flow.
Entrapment mechanisms in porous media,
Structural entrapment
Residual entrapment
Solubility entrapment
CO2-water phase behavior
Mineral entrapment in reactive formation
Introduction: acid gas treating, sources of CO2 emissions, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), CO2 capture technologies, amines for CO2 capture
Thermodynamics of CO2-amine-water systems
Mass transfer without reaction (physical absorption)
Mass transfer with chemical reaction
Advanced absorption
Advanced regeneration systems
Energy criteria for amine selection
Design of amine units in natural gas processing
General operating problems in amine processes
General considerations for amine processes
CO2 purification and compression, CO2 transportation (pipe, road, rail, truck, barge, ship), CO2 recycle facilities, CO2 cost analysis
Physical solvents processes
New technologies and current development
Policy, and Legal enablers of CCUS
Global status & OGCI activities in CCUS
Site visit to the Saudi Aramco CO2-EOR demonstration project
Introduction to CO2-EOR, CO2 storage in depleted oil reservoir and CO2-EOR++, CO2 storage in, depleted gas reservoir and challenges
Assessment of CO2 storage capacity,
Introduction to reservoir simulation
CO2-EOR simulation, CO2 storage in deep aquifers, CO2 mineralization in reactive formation, CO2-mineralization with Carbfix technology, CO2-mineralization with supercritical CO2 ,
Introduction to reactive flow simulation
Final project

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

ERPE 365 Carbon Capture and Storage

Credits