2012 Programme
2nd Edition
The programme is based on leading keynote speakers who will provide science, technology and policy perspectives. Oral communications, poster, panel and round-table sessions expand on the major themes:
Session 1 : CO2 : THE CONTEXT . Keywords :
Climate mitigation, CO2 taxes and quotas, CO2 prices.
KEYNOTE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATIONS
Session 2 : Materials (inorganic carbonates, organic chemicals by carboxylation and polymers). Keywords : Mineral carbonation, metastable carbonates, acrylates, PPC, olefins.
Session 3 : Fuels. Keywords :
Methanol, DME, methane, algae bioreactor, enzymatic conversion, bioethanol.
OUTLOOK
Highlight innovations in chemical, biochemical science and engineering on connected fields such as energy production, and cost analyses that can contribute to the CO2 recycling challenge.
Session 4 : Energies sources. Keywords : Renewable energies, decarbonated and ‘waste energies’, electrochemistry
Session 5 : Business, Funding opportunities and cost analyses. LCA, techno-economic analyses, funding bodies.
Day 1
27 sept 2012
Day 2
28 sept 2012
09:30 – 09:40
Participants welcome and Introduction
Gérard PIGNAULT
09:40 - 11:00
SESSION 1, CO2 : the context
The latest Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimate that, on current trends, global CO2 emissions are bound to top 60 Gtons. Even taking governments’... Read More
Claude FUSSLER
09:40 – 10:00
Climate mitigation – the scientific context
The presentation by Dr. Pachauri would provide an overview of the potential for mitigation of greenhouse gasses highlighting opportunities in specific sectors of the economy. The economic aspects of mitigation... Read More
Rajendra Kumar PACHAURI
10:00-10:20
Carbon capture – technology and economic perspectives
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) holds significant potential to combat climate change, as part of a wider low-carbon energy mix. According to latest IEA energy modelling, CCS could account for one-fifth of all... Read More
Juho LIPPONEN
10:20 – 10:40
CO2 markets, taxes and quotas
Placing a robust price on carbon emissions must be a central pillar of policies to mitigate climate change. However progress in achieving such a carbon price in the world’s major... Read More
Oliver SARTOR
10:40 – 11:00
Energy and Climate policy
Russel MILLS
13:30 – 15:30
SESSION 2, Materials by carboxylation
Saving energy is an easy way to reduce CO2 emissions, and not too painful, because you usually save money as well! But capturing CO2 is far more difficult technically, and,... Read More
Michel GIMENEZ
13:30 – 14:00
Availability of CO2 : Potential routes for recovery and valorization
Since the 90’s and the awareness of climatic risks due to GHG, important research efforts have be devoted to the reduction of atmospheric CO2, which is an outcome of many... Read More
Sophie JULLIAN
14:00 – 14:30
Multi-scale modelling for in silico screening of carbon-capture materials
In this lecture an overview will be given of the research in Berkeley’s Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) related to carbon. In the EFRC the research aimed on developing new... Read More
Berend SMIT
14:30 – 15:00
Polycarbonates
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received significant attention in recent years as one part of a global solution to control atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, very few of the proposed... Read More
Jim MAHONEY
15:00 – 15:30
5 Short oral communications from selected poster-presenters
KAJINO Selective CO2 Conversion to Formate …. by Semiconductor/Complex Hybrid Photocatalysts SIVASANKAR Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Multi-Carbon Organic Chemical THIEULEUX Low-temperature dry reforming of CH4 with well-defined Ni... Read More
15:50 - 17:20
SESSION 2, Materials and chemicals
In the future, we will not have one global solution, but we will rather have a whole serious of different solutions within our carbon management strategies. The utilization of CO2... Read More
Martina PETERS
15:50 – 16:20
Copolymerization of epoxides and CO2
The anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major concern of global importance. However, carbon dioxide is not only a problematic waste material, it can on the other hand... Read More
Walter LEITNER
16:20 – 16:50
Industrial research in acrylates synthesis
For more than three decades the catalytic synthesis of acrylates from the cheap and abundantly available C1 building block CO2 and alkenes has been an unsolved problem in catalysis... Read More
Michael LIMBACH
16:50 – 17:20
LCA analysis in CO2-to-carbonates technologies
The use of carbon dioxide as chemical building block has the chance to mitigate CO2-emissions from power plants and large industrial sites. Furthermore, the use of CO2 as a C1-building... Read More
Benjamin SCHÄFFNER
18-00 –20:00
POSTER SESSION and Cocktail
09:00 - 10:30
SESSION 3, CO2 reduction to fuels
David FARRUSSENG
09:00-09:30
Industrial methanol production from renewable energy
The carbon dioxide emitted when burning fossil fuel is captured, purified, blended with hydrogen into a catalyst to be transformed into methanol. This technology exists and is currently developed in... Read More
Matthias JOHANNSSON
09:30-10:00
KOGAS DME Synthesis
Due to huge and increasing emission of CO2, CO2 utilization as CCR (Carbon Capture and Recycle or Reuse) is greatly acquiring attention beyond CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage). Chemical conversion... Read More
Sang-Eon PARK
10:00-10:30
Upgrading CO2 in biogas to methane
Solid oxide electrolysis (SOEC) technology can provide solutions to many of the challenges posed by future energy systems based on significant fraction of electrical power produced by intermittent sources like... Read More
John Bøgild HANSEN
10:45 - 11:45
SESSION 3, CO2 reduction to fuels
Michele ARESTA
10:45- 11:15
Engineering Microbes for Biofuel Production from Renewable Resources
Fixation of carbon dioxide requires electrons that can be provided by photosynthesis or by other solar-driven chemical processes yielding reduced compounds such as hydrogen, CO and others. Such carbon (CO2)... Read More
Greg STEPHANOPOULOS
11:15- 11:45
CO2 to fuels en route to olefins
Gabriele CENTI
14:00 - 15:30
SESSION 4, Renewable Energies
14:00-14:30
Electrochemical CO2 transformation
Securing an economic future for CO2 as a feedstock for chemicals and fuels will require innovation in both technology and policy. As technology leaders we need to identify the technological... Read More
Ed RODE
14:30- 15:00
CO2 transformation for storage of off-peak energy
The global trend towards fossil fuel replacement and CO2 reduction will boost large scale power generation from intermittent renewable sources (wind & solar) leading to a large excess of electricity... Read More
Robert GRESSER
15:00- 15:30
Solar Fuels and Power-to-Gas technologies
Until now electricity was generated by adjustable power stations depending on the demand. The increasing renewable electricity production depends on the weather to a high extend and therefor fluctuates strongly.... Read More
Stephan RIEKE
16:00 - 16:30
SESSION 5, Business perspectives and funding opportunities
Using CO2 as a renewable is increasingly critical especially for the competitiveness of Europe, a region with fewer resources than other global players. In addition a visionary project using CO2... Read More
Johannes SPORK
16:00 – 16:10
Addressing the CO2 Challenge in Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with an €80 billion... Read More
16:10 - 16:20
NSF vision on CO2 recycling
Success in the realm of CO2 recycling depends on the ability to demonstrate economically favorable processes and products based on its reuse. Although there are some cases for which commercialization... Read More
George ANTOS
16:20 – 16:30
CCSV perspective and demonstrators funding opportunities in France
In France several research projects on CO2 reuse are conducted and funded by agencies (ANR, ADEME). The Club CO2 has been created in order to gather all French actors (industrial... Read More
François MOISON
17:20– 17:30
Closing remarks
Alessandra QUADRELLI