The School of Engineering carbon capture adsorption group will be collaborating with the University of Strathclyde on the project, Feasibility of a wetting layer absorption carbon capture process based on chemical solvents.
Manon Foulc: I am a French student from Avignon, studying in Toulouse at the INP-ENSIACET (Polytechnic National Institute – Chemical and Technology Engineering School) and I am expecting to graduate with a MEng in Materials Engineering in 2013.
Adsorption Materials and Processes for Carbon Capture from Gas-Fired Power Plants - AMPGas is a new project that will start in September 2012 and will focus on capture technology for retrofit to existing CCGT plants.
Hiroki Sato, an employee of Hitachi Ltd's Energy & Environment Research Centre in Japan, attended a 2-day Workshop on "Molecular Simulation of Carbon Capture and Storage in Novel Porous Materials" held at The University of Edinburgh in April.
The EPSRC and DECC have invested £13 million to establish a UK Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Research Centre coordinated at the University of Edinburgh.
