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Carbon Capture & Storage: a new challenge for science and industry facing global climate scenarios
LOCATION: New Rome Fair Centre - Est Entrance - Hall 6 - 6B Conference Room.
ENTRANCE: The access to the Conference is free, upon payment of the Fair ticket.
REGISTRATION: Participants are adviced to report to the Conference Reception well in advance; at least, 20 minutes before the start of the session.
LANGUAGE: Conference Presentations will be held in Italian; simultaneous translation will not be provided.
* provisional title
** invited chair/speaker
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 |
11.30am - 1.40m Put carbon dioxide under lock and key: CCS technologies from A to Z | |
Chair: Enzo Boschi (INGV) | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| Italian deep geological structures: do we reserve them to CCS, natural gas storage, nuclear waste or low enthalpy geothermal energy (i.e. Hot Dry Rock)? |
| CCS technologies for carbon dioxide capture* |
| Transport: the hidden side of CCS |
| CCS technologies for carbon dioxide geological sequestration* |
| ZEP proposal for an efficent adoption of CCS technologies |
| Question time |
2.30pm - 5.10pm Economic, legal and political/social aspects related to carbon dioxide capture and geological sequestration | |
Chair: Sebastiano Serra (Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Land and the Seas) | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| Carbon dioxide capture and storage: an economic balance* |
| Costs of electricity generation from power plants with carbon dioxide capture |
| Question time |
| Break |
| Legal aspects of CCS technologies* |
| Public perception of CCS technologies: the question of 'public acceptance'* |
| Question time |
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 |
10.00am - 1.00pm The contribution of CCS technologies to climate change mitigation: pros and contros | |
Chair: Renato Baciocchi (Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata') | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| IPCC suggestions on CCS technologies |
| Carbon dioxide geological storage: from early pilot projects to European Platform Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants |
| Carbon dioxide geological storage: current situation and prospects* |
| Carbon dioxide capture and storage: a false solution to stop climate change |
| CCS technologies: a losing cultural choice?* |
| Break |
| Round table: 'CCS technologies: a realistic prospect or a false promise?' |
2.00pm - 5.30pm Carbon dioxide geological sequestration in Italy | |
Chair: Sergio Persoglia (OGS-CO2GeoNet) | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| Geologic investigations and fluid dynamic numerical modelling applied to potential reservoirs for CO2 deep storage |
| Surface geological-geophysical-geochemical methods for CCS |
| Geophysical techniques for monitoring suitable sites for carbon dioxide geological sequestration |
| Fluid-rock interaction and numerical simulations applied to storage sites |
| Question time |
| Break |
| Deep saline aquifers: potential sites for carbon dioxide geological sequestration in Italy |
| Technologies for carbon dioxide use: the contribution to emission reduction |
| Environment and health: applying the 'Precautionary Principle' to CCS technologies* |
| Question time |
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
10.30am-11.30am CCS technologies: projects for a widespread application | |
Chair: Antonio Calabrò (ENEA) | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| ENI activities for carbon capture and storage |
| ENEL projects for carbon capture and storage |
| ECBM Sulcis project for carbon capture and storage* |
| Question time |
11.45am - 1.45pm Towards 'Zero Emission' power plants: technologies and experiences | |
Chair: Michela Vellini (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) | |
| Welcome and opening address |
| Thermoelectric power plants with very low CO2 emissions: energetic, technological and economic aspects |
| CCS technology application into an existing combined cycle power plant: a feasibility study |
| Dynamic models of CO2/Hydrogen separation technologies |
| Question time |
1.45pm - 2.30pm Buffet organized by 'Bellona Europa' Foundation |
2.30pm - 4.30pm Roundtable: 'CCS development in Italy and public policies: how to promote the birth of a market?' | |
Moderator: Luca Santarossa ('Bellona Italia' Foundation) |
