The Research Centre for Carbon Solutions(RCCS) is an interdisciplinary world leading engineering centre, inspiring and delivering innovation for the wider deployment of technologies needed to meet necessary carbon targets. The centre was formerly known as Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage(CICCS) and rebranded in April 2017 due to a growth of the centre's research porfortlio and to reflect more closely the breadth of our research activities in the whole CCUS chain, clean energy and sustainability.
Launched by Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer (FRSE, FIChemE, FRSC, FRSA) in 2008 with funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Centre has grown to encompass 35 members of staff and students, having over 400 publications on carbon mitigation. The Centre has attracted more than £17m of funding since its establishment.
"We are working on creating a technology that will turn this into a genuine game-changer, turning a climate-changing gas into a climate-saving fuel. We will have the input of leading industry players throughout this research, ensuring that the technology we develop can be used with existing infrastructure."
--- Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer
We have 1 professor, 4 assistant/associate professors, 1 visiting professor, 1 lab manager, 1 research fellow and 10 PDRAs.
We have more than 17 highly qualified students undertaking our PhD programmes at RCCS.
The Centre has more than £17m active projects covering the whole CCS chain.
We have published more than 400 peer-review papers presenting our research outputs in high-profile journals.
We have 14 research projects at RCCS. We collaborate with our academic and industry partners in some projects.
The centre has 10 extensive state-of-the-art laboratory facilities with total area of 350 square meter.
