Low-Cost Options for CO2 Mitigation in Electricity, Oil and Cement Production
This page finalized December 27, 2006.
Chair's Air Pollution Seminar
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Tuesday, January
16, 2007
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento
This
event is being Webcast, click here to view.
Webcast viewers: Please send your
questions during broadcast to coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov.
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Low-Cost Options for CO2
Mitigation in Electricity,
Oil, and Cement Production
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Greg H. Rau, Ph.D.
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
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Carbon Management Program, Energy and Environment Directorate,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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| The climate and environmental impacts of ever-increasing
atmospheric CO2 require that CO2 mitigation
options be seriously and broadly pursued. Indeed, recent legislation will require California to dramatically reduce
its CO2 emissions in the coming decades. Efforts to increase energy
efficiency and to expand non-fossil energy sources will help in this endeavor, but these approaches alone may be
insufficient or too costly for the State to fully meet its emissions reduction goals. Therefore, the capture and
sequestration of CO2 emanating from fossil fuel combustion must also be considered
as a mitigation tool for California, and a variety of such options are being investigated at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. Among these are low-cost means of chemically reacting CO2 out
of waste gas streams to form benign, storable or useable products. Specific applications to the energy, oil, and
cement industries will be discussed. |
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| Greg H. Rau, Ph.D. has for the past 25 years been actively engaged in biogeochemical research, especially
using 13C and other
naturally-occurring isotopes to address questions about carbon and nutrient cycling. More recently he has been
investigating ways to exploit the natural chemical reactivity of carbon dioxide as a means of cost-effectively
capturing and storing anthropogenic CO2. One of these methods has been recently patented, and several others are pending. His
Ph.D. was awarded from the University of Washington, and this was followed by postdoctoral experience at UCLA and
at NASA-Ames Research Center. He is a longtime member of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Society
of Limnology and Oceanography, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A Senior
Researcher with the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1986, he is
also affiliated with the Energy and Environment Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Rau is
fifth-generation native of Washington State, and lives with his wife, Vreni, in Castro Valley, California. |
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For more information on this
Seminar please contact Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or send email to: pmathews@arb.ca.gov
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