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Carbon Management Canada-an update. Richard Adamson (Managing Director) Steve Larter (Scientific Director). Changing How Canada Innovates. First Annual CMC-NCE Conference. May 17 th to 20 th Westin Hotel Keynote Speaker – Brian Launder, Manchester University
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Carbon Management Canada-an update. Richard Adamson (Managing Director) Steve Larter (Scientific Director) Changing How Canada Innovates
First Annual CMC-NCE Conference • May 17th to 20th • Westin Hotel • Keynote Speaker – Brian Launder, Manchester University • Theme leaders talks • Workshops
Purpose of the Network • Focus Canada’s academic research • -Elevate ambition & collaboration among institutions (26 members to date), with industry & government practitioners • Create game-changing technologies, insights and processes • Train Highly Qualified People • Facilitate rapid and effective exchange of information among researchers and practitioners • … in order to reduce carbon emissions in the fossil energy sector
Carbon Management Canada A nation-wide, university-led, multidisciplinary research network that will develop the game-changing technologies and the business, social and policy frameworks necessary to rapidly “decarbonize” fossil fuel production and utilization (26 academic institutions, 60 research groups) Academic partners
CMC-NCE Structure Board of Directors Membership NCE Secretariat Advisory Advisory Administrative Team Research Team
Board of Directors • Up to 15 voting (2 vacancy) • 7 non-voting (2 vacancy) • Academic: 6 voting (2 int’l); 1 non-voting (stud.) • Government: 1 voting; 3 non-voting • Industry: 3 voting; 1 non-voting • Independent: 5 voting (incl. 2 int’l academic) • Management: 1 voting; 1 non-voting
CMC-NCE: Membership • Academic Institutional Members • Network Agreement Signatories • Institutional Members (Non-Academic) • Corporate Sponsors • NGO’s • International Research Institutions • Individual Members • Network Investigators • (Institutional Investigators)
Current Industry Sponsors • Sustaining Sponsors • Suncor • ConocoPhillips • Capital Power • Supporting Sponsors • Cenovus • Spectra Energy • Atco Power • Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. • Program Sponsor • TransAlta • Research Industry Participant/Sponsor • Carbon Engineering
Administration • Managing Director • Richard Adamson • Finance Director • Nick Suleman • Communications Director • Ruth Klinkhammer • Sr. Advisor • Wayne Patton • Programs Manager • Dr. Anita Arduini • IT Director • Dr. Patrick Mann • Exec Assistant • Renata Robson • Reception • Sonya Lempel • HQP (summer) • Naeema Bhayat
Website • CMC Website: • Live in January • Features CMC & industry news • Researchers can post news, jobs, blogs, photos and more
Carbon Commons The shared aims of IPAC-CO2 and CMC-NCE include the development of collaborative environments which will encourage innovation and creativity. This web portal provides a common, shared site in which the industrial and academic communities can recognize and develop common practices, share data and applications, and create new solutions to global carbon emissions and storage problems. http://www.carboncommons.ca
Scientific/Research • RMX • Scientific Director • Dr. Steve Larter • Associate S.D. • Dr. Bernhard Mayer • Theme Leads: • Dr. John Shaw • Dr. John Grace • Dr. Don Lawton • Dr. James Meadowcroft • Managing Director • Richard Adamson • RMC (RMX +) • NCE Secretariat • ConocoPhillips • Suncor • NRCan • AIEES • Academic (x2)
Project Funding Process Research Team Submit RMX Prelim Review NCE Monitor process International Review Admin Process RMC Prioritize & Recommend Board Approve
New Programs • Workshops (coming year) • Risk Assessment/Management (CCS) • Communication & Public Engagement • Cost Reduction Through Advanced System Integration (CCS) • Knowledge Sharing (CCS +?) • Carbon Commons • Collaborative tools • Analytical tools • New functionality • Emergent Issues Program • International collaboration programs • New funding programs
Engagement with organisations • Global CCS Institute • Integrated CO2 Network (ICO2N) • International Performance Assessment Centre (IPAC-CO2) • JCOAL-Japan Coal Energy Center • Stanford Center for Carbon Sequestration (industry consortium)
Carbon Reduction Options • Common sense and policy enablement • Increased efficiency • Nuclear • Solar thermal • Solar PV • Wind/ tidal energy • Nth generation (algal) biofuels • Low total emission fossil fuels • Carbon Dioxide Reduction Geoengineering • (air capture, accelerated rock weathering) √ √ CMC
Strategies Delivered Technology And Policies • Mitigation(efficiency, CCS, renewables) and adaptation • Mitigation, adaptation and geoengineering • Change of social processes
Innovationcrisis Canadian Energy sector and Universities punching way below their weight! Ottawa/Gatineau Silicon Valley London ON Vancouver Montreal Kitchener Calgary Saskatoon Edmonton Toronto Quebec/Hamilton/Windsor Halifax Victoria http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/flash/innovation_clusters/
Canada: An innovation deficit? Matt McCulloch Pembina
Key Learnings from Silicon Valley • High idea volume needed • Disruptive approaches • Rapid prototyping(piloting) and iteration(key to biology and IT) • Risk taking • Expectation and acceptance of failure in many projects • Openness about success of existing technology!
CMC Innovation • Institutional Innovation and Innovation Barriers (Theme D program) James Meadowcroft. • Fund ambitious research industry+ government + academia RMC • Change culture in industry and academia • Workshops to break down barriers and facilitate idea volume increase(workshop this week) • Innovation café • Carbon commons website for CMC and external crowdsourcing of problems and solutions (IPAC) • Generating a lot more good ideas
Web innovation system • Crowdsourcing research solutions; matching seekers and solvers • Repository of existing work and solutions • Voluntary coordination of innovation programs across the sector • Stopping wheel reinvention and promoting warp drive innovation • High volume idea generator • Collaboration system
CMC Research in a Nutshell • Integrate Canada’s fossil fuel energy research community to enable a practical response to national GHG reduction targets. • Create transformative technologies and societal changes to enable the reduction of GHG emissions from the production of fossil fuel energy • Produce a trained cadre of technical and social scientists, engineers and technologists for the development and deployment of solution technologies
Research Management Committee • Dr. Steve Larter(ex officio)Scientific DirectorCarbon Management Canada • Richard AdamsonManaging DirectorCarbon Management Canada • Dr. Marc D’IorioDirector GeneralOffice of Energy Research and Development, NRCan • Dr. John Grace, ProfessorUniversity of British Columbia • Dr. Don Lawton, ProfessorUniversity of Calgary • Mike ScribnerManager, Technology and Optimization, Oil SandsConocoPhillips Canada • Dr. Bernhard Mayer, ProfessorUniversity of Calgary • Dr. James Meadowcroft, ProfessorCarleton University • Dr. Andrew Pollard, Professor and Queens Research ChairMechanical and Materials EngineeringQueens University • Dr. Nancy Olewiler, ProfessorSimon Fraser University • Jim RowleyIndependent • Dr. John Shaw, ProfessorUniversity of Alberta • Dr. John ZhouExecutive Director, Environmental TechnologiesAlberta Innovates, Energy and Environmental Solutions
Effecting culture change in the innovation community (long term plan!) • Raise Ambition • Increase Scale of Research Targets • Change nature of HQP workforce(more PhD, postdocs, technicians) • Increased focus on actual technological outputs and deployments • Much greater engagement of industry and academia • Bring in other technical communities
Round 2 Process • Call for proposals • Pre-proposal review by email • Proposals received • RMCX withdrew 6 proposals as non compliant or inappropriate • All remaining proposals sent for international review • Reviews sent to RMC • RMC reviewed all proposals submitted and graded all • During individual project review all conflicted individuals were absent from the room • Review process monitored by NCE representative
Structural Issues Identified • Academic model issues • Industrial coFunding level issues • Innovation process issues • Inter university communication issues
Some general issues • Academic model Issues(many lone PI “traditional” proposals still with an over emphasis on Masters students-DG model). • Industrial coFunding level issues(few significant industrial cofunders and many applicants seem reluctant to pursue funds while industry is less than proactive in supporting in some cases). • Innovation process issues(need to develop a stronger innovation culture in Canadian Universities and business) • Inter university communication and inefficiency issues
Round I Research Projects http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/ Theme A - Recovery, Processing and Capture • Fluidized bed gasification of low-grade coals and petcoke • Integrated gasification and looping CO2 capture • Rapid routes to carbon-efficient recovery of bitumen and heavy oil • Development of direct air capture technology • Hydrogen production and waste processing Theme B - Enabling and Emerging Technologies • Enabling the microbial capture of CO2 under anaerobic (subsurface) conditions • A pore scale microlab to perform fundamental laboratory-based studies of CO2 transport and reactivity in reservoirs
Round I Research Projects - continued http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/ Theme C - Secure Carbon Storage • Storage geochemistry MMV • Adapting Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment methods to site evaluation for carbon capture and storage • Storage geophysics and monitoring • Seismic behaviour of CO2 saturated sandstones: laboratory measurements and modelling • Carbon mineralization in mine waste • CO2 for CCS from fuel cells Theme D – Accelerating Appropriate Deployment • Assessing the potential of low carbon fossil-fuel/derived technologies: A life cycle environmental and techno-economic evaluation of the oil sands • Governance Innovation and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy • National and international legal and regulatory framework for carbon management
Round II Research Projects Theme B - Enabling and Emerging Technologies Material Development and Optimization for Zero CO2 Emission Energy Production Bioconversion of Coal by Enhanced Engineering Pathways into Fuel products CO2-microbubbles – A safe and secure technique for increased sequestration and EOR potential into oil/gas reservoirs Theme A - Recovery, Processing and Capture • Designing Easy-Release CO2 Capture Sorbents at the Molecular Level • "Development and Techno‐Economic Assessment of High Performance Amine Impregnated Solid Sorbents for Post Combustion CO2 Capture" • Development of novel nanostructuredphotocatalysts for highly efficient solar photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to fuels • Frustrated Lewis Pairs: A New Approach to CO2 Capture and Utilization
Round II Research Projects - continued Theme D - Accelerating Appropriate Deployment Carbon Policy Uncertainty, Investment Decisions, and Commercial Feasibility of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Towards Effective Management: Assessing Stakeholder Attitudes & Public Controversy Surrounding Green House Gas Mitigation Energy Systems Removing Barriers and Cultivating Enablers to Innovation in Canada's Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Industry Understanding Barriers to Low-Carbon Tech. Investments in Oil and Gas Industry Risk Assessment and Mgmt. of CCS in a Canadian Context Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of ThreeTechnologies Theme C - Secure Carbon Storage • Distributed all-optical CO2 sensing for field-scale subsurface carbon management • Innovative approach to microseismic monitoring of underground CO2 injection: Seismic interferometry and ultralow frequency deformations events • Storage Geomechanics and Reservoir Modelling • Integrated Gravimetric and Geodetic Monitoring of Geological CO2 storage • Secure storage of impure CO2 in the form of solid hydrate in depleted gas pools in Northern Alberta
Cross cutting/Emerging Themes • Nanotechnology • Sensors • Innovation • Communicating & assessing risk & uncertainty • Biology • Electrochemistry
Research Portfolio Enabling innovation and innovating Defragment the research enterprise 2 Novel capture technologies 5 projects Enabling change in policy and behaviour 9 projects More Efficient Oil and gas recovery and processing 2 projects Carbon storage systematics and innovative sensing 10 projects Advanced gasification Biological insitu gasification 5 projects Carbon neutral fossil fuels 1 projects CDR Geoengineering 2 projects Communicating and assessing risk and uncertainty 4 projects Warp drive Game-changers Technology import Biology 2; Sensors 2 ; Nanotechnology 3; Electrochemistry 2
Cross cutting/Emerging Themes • Nanotechnology • Sensors • Innovation • Communicating & assessing risk & uncertainty • Biology • Electrochemistry
Many accelerating technology areasBiology, nanotechnology, AI, internet science Key:rapid protoyping High idea volume
H/C=0.8 Sequence of desire: Coal;Bitumen; Oil; Methane; Hydrogen While gas and oil prices are disconnected carbon prices would resolve that quickly H/C=4.0 CO2 emitted on a natural gas basis Coal and Bitumen H2 Modified after Kulcinski 2005
Subsurface microbial conversion of low hydrogen fuels to hydrogen or methane(Mitra poster) • Anaerobicmethanogenic biodegradation of hydrocarbons is the main biodegradation process in oil reservoirs including the oil sands reservoirs • Syntrophus (Bacteria) + Methanomicrobiales (Archaea) Jones et al. Nature, 2008 MADCOR (Adams et al., 2009) Response to nutrients and CO2+H2 pasteurization (Gray et al., 2009) Methanogens in Oil Fields
CCS Field Research and Training Sitefor CCS measurement, monitoring and verification (MMV) • Don Lawton • Initially proposed to be developed on University of Calgary land near Priddis, Alberta. • Geological model and CO2 storage simulation research completed in the fall of 2010. • Site proposal withdrawn in Feb. 2011 due to land-use concerns from land donors. • Alternative sites are currently under review with advanced discussions with the most promising being proximal to Project Pioneer.
Key areas for future activity • Research • Technology development • Education / development of Highly Qualified People • Outreach-Public understanding of risk and uncertainty • Knowledge sharing across sectors • Trusted honest broker
Key questions for us all! • How do we change the culture in industry and academia to become more effective in collaboration and delivery of technology and policy? • How do technology focussed academics get involved with industry? • How do we get industry and investors to make serious investments in CMC and technology? • How do we form stable linkages to demonstration projects? • How do we optimally use our resources to engender spinoffs, train staff and develop technology and policy? • How do we get students and postdocs active in spinout generation (Technology scholarships?) • What should our next call for proposals look like-what targets? • How do we engage at a global level with other similar organisations? • How do we maintain our credibility? • How do we revise strategy and improve quality control on our research program ? • What should the balance of basic research versus applied research be? • How do we link carbon capture and storage research? • How do we link technical and social science research • How do we improve our linkages to renewable energy research, biocharand other relevant sectors?
Show stoppers in Carbon Management • No game-changing technology • No social engagement or mandate to deploy technologies at large scale(e.g. Public concern about CCS) • Insufficient trained staff to deploy solutions at large scale
Engagement with organisations • Global CCS Institute • Integrated CO2 Network (ICO2N) • International Performance Assessment Centre (IPAC-CO2) • JCOAL-Japanese Coal…… • Stanford Carbon Capture & Storage Consortium