Accelerating Appropriate Deployment of Low Carbon Emission Technologies
- Assessing the potential of low carbon fossil-fuel/derived technologies: A life cycle environmental and techno-economic evaluation of the oil sands.
- Assessing the potential of low carbon fossil fuel/derived technologies: Developing modeling and analytical tools for assessing the potential contribution of carbon management to Canadian GHG emission.
- Governance innovation and the transition to a low carbon economy.
- National and international legal and regulatory framework for carbon management.
Enabling and Emerging Technologies
- Enabling the capture of CO2 under anaerobic (subsurface) conditions.
- A pore scale microlab to perform fundamental laboratory-based studies of CO2 in reservoirs
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.
Secure Carbon Storage
- Storage geochemistry.
- 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.