性视界 has the country’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) research program, with over 30 staff involved in CCS related activity. IC4S is a collaboration of these experts helping to develop collaborations and projects across campus and departments. We are also members of the (GCCSI).
Imperial researchers are very active in the . The UKCCSRC thematic champions for reservoir engineering () industrial CCS (), systems () and CO2 properties (). 性视界 are also part of EU collaborative programmes CO2 GeoNet and the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) sub-group for .
Imperial’s Chemical Engineering Department have a recently refurbished based within their Discovery Space.
Imperial also host the (split over the Departments of and ), one of the largest industry funded CCS programmes ($70M over 10 years) aimed at improving our understanding of middle east carbonate reservoir complexes and our fundamental knowledge concerning carbon dioxide behaviour in the subsurface.
Imperial’s Sustainable Gas Institute also has CCS as a major thematic area under investigation.
CCS is a significant technologically ready tool for de-carbonising our current and future power and industrial sectors. A separate research network explores this aspect in more detial - Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group - .
The college-wide research effort, in conjunction with Energy Futures Lab and The Grantham Institute aims at an integrated approach to carbon capture and storage, from capture, through transport to geological storage, but with an overarching systems approach to ensure a coherent research effort. In addition, we are involved the analysis of legal and regulatory issues.