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Dr Qi Liu (Jerry) attended the 8th Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (TCCS-8) on June 16 – 18, 2015, in Trondheim, Norway. The bi-annual conference has since its start in 2003 grown to become one of the leading scientific CCS technology conferences. The 8th Trondheim Conference focused on research and development regarding … Continued
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Dr Aimaro Sanna has presented his work “Minimization of energy consumption of CO2 mineralization using recyclable ammonium salts” at the Fifth International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Material Engineering (ACEME) held on June 21-24, at the Columbia University, New York. This work has been produced as part of the on-going CICCS research … Continued
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The 1st Chemistry in Energy conference organised by the Energy Sector interest group of the Royal Society of Chemistry was hosted at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 20th-22nd July 2015. The purpose of this Conference was to bring together scientists and technologists from academia and industry with interests in the applications of Chemistry in the … Continued
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Dr Aimaro Sanna has successfully completed a one month research placement at Prof Kevin Whitty’s laboratories, at the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Utah, USA. This research visit was part of a multi-exchange program for the CO2TRIP project “Long-term research activities in the area of advanced CO2 Capture Technologies for Clean Coal Energy Generation”, funded … Continued
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On September 14, 2015 Elizabeth Bay participated in a Routes into Employment event at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk. The event was for higher level graphics students to get a flavor of the kind of careers available to them. Elizabeth enjoyed discussing with students her own work in carbon dioxide utilization and the importance of graphics to chemistry work in terms … Continued
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Heriot-Watt Mechanical Engineering PhD research student Muhammad Farooq successfully completed a research exchange program atZhejiang University Hangzhou, China. The visit was sponsored by the EU C02-TRIP Project ‘’Long-term research activities in the area of advanced CO2 Capture Technologies for Clean Coal Energy Generation”. During his stay, Mr. Farooq presented a seminar of his … Continued
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Dr Oluwafunmilola Ola and Elizabeth Bay attended the 13th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU) in Singapore from July 5th through the 9th, 2015. Dr Oluwafunmilola Ola attended as speaker to the conference to present her work “CO2 photoreduction via CeO2-TiO2 coated two dimensional PMMA plates” and a poster. Elizabeth Bay also spoke presenting her work on “Normalization of … Continued
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Dr Patricia Cordoba, member of the Centre for Innovation on Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS) in the Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering (IMPEE), has been awarded with the Special Doctoral Award 2014 in the Industrial Engineering field by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia as the most outstanding of the doctoral theses that were awarded a Cum Laude distinction. Thesis: Partitioning and … Continued