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Carbon Engineering Department

The Carbon Engineering Department trains students to become field-ready carbon storage specialists through rigorous theory and hands-on practice in permanent CO2 sequestration in deep geological formations. Students complete project-based coursework in (1) supercritical-CO2 injection and plume-migration simulation, (2) caprock-sealing and geochemical-trapping assessment, (3) monitoring-verification-accounting (MVA) framework design, and (4) CO2-EOR feasibility analysis, graduating and heading into the field with a completed track record of independently characterizing CCS sites and evaluating storage capacity in real-world settings.

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Field-based Curriculum · 23

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Post-Combustion Capture (Amine Scrubbing)
Post-Combustion Capture (Amine Scrubbing)
The course teaches post-combustion capture by amine scrubbing as a chemical abso…
Robert Angus Smith
Oxy-fuel Combustion Capture
Oxy-fuel Combustion Capture
The course teaches oxy-fuel combustion capture and its air-separation cost struc…
Carl von Linde
Pre-Combustion Capture / Coal & Gas Gasification (IGCC)
Pre-Combustion Capture / Coal & Gas Gasification (IGCC)
The course teaches pre-combustion capture — concentrating fuel carbon into CO2 b…
Friedrich Bergius
Direct Air Capture & Adsorption Thermodynamics
Direct Air Capture & Adsorption Thermodynamics
The course teaches the thermodynamics and processes of direct air capture — remo…
Irving Langmuir
Solid Sorbent Materials (Zeolites, MOFs)
Solid Sorbent Materials (Zeolites, MOFs)
The course teaches design principles of solid sorbents such as zeolites and MOFs…
Richard Barrer
Membrane-Based CO2 Separation
Membrane-Based CO2 Separation
Centred on the solution-diffusion mechanism and the Robeson upper bound, the cou…
Thomas Graham
CO2 Pipeline Transport Engineering
CO2 Pipeline Transport Engineering
The course teaches pipeline transport engineering of dense-phase CO2, building h…
Julius Weisbach
CO2/Gas Hydrate Formation & Flow Assurance
CO2/Gas Hydrate Formation & Flow Assurance
The course teaches formation conditions of CO2/gas hydrates and flow-assurance c…
Humphry Davy
Geological Storage Site Characterization
Geological Storage Site Characterization
The course teaches how petroleum trap taxonomy and basin analysis are redeployed…
Arville Irving Levorsen
Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage & Hydrogeology
Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage & Hydrogeology
The course teaches the hydrogeology of deep saline-aquifer CO2 storage, building…
Charles Vernon Theis
CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery & Miscibility Thermodynamics
CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery & Miscibility Thermodynamics
The course teaches minimum miscibility pressure and multiple-contact miscibility…
Gilbert N. Lewis
Caprock Sealing Capacity & Injection-Induced Geomechanics
Caprock Sealing Capacity & Injection-Induced Geomechanics
The course teaches the geomechanics of evaluating caprock sealing under injectio…
Nabor Carrillo Flores
Geochemical & Mineral Trapping
Geochemical & Mineral Trapping
The course teaches the geochemistry of long-term CO2 immobilisation by solubilit…
Robert Berner
Capillary & Residual Trapping / Relative Permeability
Capillary & Residual Trapping / Relative Permeability
The course teaches capillary and residual trapping of CO2 at the pore scale toge…
Thomas Young
Wellbore Integrity & Cementing
Wellbore Integrity & Cementing
The course teaches long-term integrity of wellbore cement and casing in CO2 serv…
Erle P. Halliburton
Monitoring, Verification & Accounting (Geophysical/Gravimetric)
Monitoring, Verification & Accounting (Geophysical/Gravimetric)
The course teaches monitoring, verification, and accounting of injected CO2 via …
Lucien LaCoste
Basalt & Ultramafic Mineralization Storage
Basalt & Ultramafic Mineralization Storage
The course teaches mineralization storage — dissolving CO2 in water and injectin…
Reginald Aldworth Daly
Offshore & Sub-seabed CO2 Storage
Offshore & Sub-seabed CO2 Storage
The course teaches offshore sub-seabed CO2 storage, distinguishing the principle…
Maurice Ewing
Injection-Induced Seismicity Risk
Injection-Induced Seismicity Risk
The course teaches hazard assessment and management of injection-induced seismic…
Nicholas Ambraseys
Reservoir Simulation & CO2 Plume Migration Modeling
Reservoir Simulation & CO2 Plume Migration Modeling
The course teaches forecasting of CO2 plume migration and pressure behaviour wit…
Grigory Barenblatt
Storage Capacity Estimation & Resource Classification
Storage Capacity Estimation & Resource Classification
The course teaches estimation of basin-scale CO2 storage capacity with defined c…
Vincent E. McKelvey
Enhanced Coalbed Methane & Coal Seam CO2 Storage
Enhanced Coalbed Methane & Coal Seam CO2 Storage
The course teaches the competitive-adsorption thermodynamics of ECBM — injecting…
Marie Stopes
CO2 Thermodynamics & Equations of State
CO2 Thermodynamics & Equations of State
The course teaches equations of state describing real-fluid behaviour of CO2 and…
Johannes Diderik van der Waals