About SCCS
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Focus Areas
Regional Analysis
- Development of CO2 & H2 site selection and ranking criteria
- Assessment of CCS opportunity in California
- Assessment of CO2 storage issues in soft sediments of the US GOM
- Assessment of H2 storage criteria and opportunities
Pore to Core Scale Analysis
- Experimental studies of pore-to-core scale flow and transport of CO2
- Geochemical reactions between CO2, rocks, fluids and organic matter
- Laboratory tests of controls on residual trapping
- Pilot tests of enhanced pore space utilization, trapping, and mobility control
- Seal integrity analysis
Modeling & Simulation
- Advanced reservoir engineering including coupled geomechanical and geochemical models
- Modeling of injection strategies to optimize pore space usage
- Development of a deep-learning modeling suite for CCS
- Forward and inverse modeling to identify the optimal location for reservoir pressure sensors for leakage monitoring and plume tracking
Technoeconomics & Policy Analysis
- Analysis of new technologies (e.g. BECCS and DAC) and effect on CCS expansion and scaleup
- Capacity expansion models for integrating power generation with CCS into the electrical grid
- Lifecycle assessment of GHG emissions
Courses Relevant to Carbon Capture & Storage
Energy Science & Engineering
Energy 101: Energy and the Environment
Energy 121 (221): Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow
Energy 153 (253): Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Energy 191 (291): Optimization of Energy Systems
Energy 201: Laboratory Measurements of Reservoir Rock Properties
Energy 223: Reservoir Simulation
Energy 308: Carbon Dioxide and Methane Removal, Utilization, and Sequestration
Geophysics and Geomechanics
GEOPHYS 202: Reservoir Geomechanics
GEOPHYS 280: 3-D Seismic Imaging
Geological & Environmental Sciences
GS 90: Introduction to Geochemistry