Popular Science Lecture - 70

How to capture and handle carbon dioxide - A sustainability factor


Venue: Anna Centenary Library,
Kotturpuram
Chennai

April 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Organised by Tamil Nadu Science Forum

About Program







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About the Lecture

Global CO2 emission has touched ~39 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and despite all the talk about net zero CO2 emission, the rate of CO2 emission is expected to stay at the current level for few more years. While role of solar, wind, hydro/waves, hydrogen etc. (perhaps nuclear as well) is acknowledged, current energy need, and proposed GDP growth of developing countries could not be achieved without ensuring implementation of CCUS. CCUS is essentially a three-step process,
i) Capturing or separating the CO2 from its associated gases,
ii) Transporting the captured, relatively purer CO2 (from step-i) to the utilization site where part of the CO2 could be processed for its utilization, and
iii) Majority of the CO2 which could not be converted (in step-ii) has to be transported and sequestered for geological timescale. Thus, amount of CO2 utilized or sequestrated is directly proportional to the amount of CO2 captured. CO2 capture technology has to become robust, and sustainable with time, this presentation would briefly explain the challenges in adaptation of this technology at larger scale.

உலகளாவிய CO2 உமிழ்வு ஆண்டுக்கு ~39 பில்லியன் டன் கார்பன் டை ஆக்சைடைத் தொட்டுள்ளது, மேலும் நிகர பூஜ்ஜிய CO2 உமிழ்வு பற்றி பேசினாலும், CO2 உமிழ்வு விகிதம் இன்னும் சில ஆண்டுகளுக்கு தற்போதைய நிலையில் இருக்கும் என்று எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.

SCHEDULE

Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm - April 06, 2024

Attendenace Registration starts at 03:30 pm

4:00 pm

Introduction

4:10 pm

Rajnish Kumar
Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.

How to capture and handle carbon dioxide - A sustainability factor

5:10 pm

Q & A

Speakers

Rajnish Kumar

Rajnish Kumar

Rajnish Kumar, FRSC is a professor in the Department Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras. Prior to that he has served as senior scientist at CSIR-NCL, and research associate at National Research Council, Canada. His PhD is from The University of British Columbia, Canada and has research interests in gas hydrates, carbon dioxide capture, process development and scale-up. Work from his research group are well cited, and so far, they have published more than 100 research articles. He was recognized as Highly Cited Researcher in the year 2018. Rajnish is the most recent awardee of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for his contribution to engineering science. Rajnish is also a recipient of NASI – Scopus Young Scientist Award in Chemistry for the year 2016. More recently in 2020, Rajnish received Dr. YBG Verma Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Teaching at IIT Madras. Rajnish sits in the editorial boards of many journals including, Energy & Fuels, ACS Engineering Au & Scientific Reports.

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Kotturpuram
Chennai

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