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Centenary Seminar: The role of CCS and CDR in reaching net-zero by Prof Marco Mazzotti
24 April 2024, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Join our upcoming Centenary Seminar: The role of CCS and CDR in reaching net-zero, presented by Prof Marco Mazzotti, Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, Zürich Switzerland.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Melania Torok, Executive Assistant – UCL Chemical Engineering
Location
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Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre G06Roberts BuildingUniversity College London, Torrington PlaceLondonWC1E 7JEUnited Kingdom
Abstract
While CCS and CDR are now acknowledged to be key components of a portfolio of measures to tackle climate change and to evolve towards a net-zero world, their deployment faces still several major hurdles. In this talk the opportunities provided by CCS and CDR, and the challenges that come along will be presented and discussed. As to the former, mineral carbonation, both in-situ and ex-situ, will be discussed together with the importance for researchers of moving from the laboratory to the field to demonstrate their new science. As to the latter, systemic challenges, socio-economic challenges, and political challenges will be addressed, to show that scientists and engineers must engage in the public arena as well, if they are motivated to make an impact with their innovative ideas.
Registration
To register, email Melania Torok, Executive Assistant at chemeng.ea@ucl.ac.uk
About the Speaker
Prof Marco Mazzotti
Full Professor at Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Institute of Energy and Process Engineering, Separation Processes Laboratory
Marco Mazzotti, an Italian and Swiss citizen born in 1960, married, with two children, has been professor of process engineering at ETH Zurich since May 1997 (associate until March 2001 and Full Professor thereafter). He holds a Laurea (MSc, 1984) and a Ph.D. (1993), both in Chemical Engineering and from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Before joining ETH Zurich, he had worked five years in industry (1985-1990), and had been Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (1994–1997).
He was coordinating lead author of the IPCC Special Report on CCS (2002-2005), President of the International Adsorption Society (2010–2013), chairman of the Board of the Energy Science Center of the ETH Zurich (2011-2017), and chairman of the Working Party on Crystallization of the EFCE (2014-2021). He was a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany (2014). He has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant towards „Studying secondary nucleation for the intensification of continuous crystallization“ (2018-2024). He was the recipient of the SINTEF and NTNU CCS Award 2021. He is member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the coordinator of the project DemoUpCARMA (Demonstration and Upscaling of Carbon Dioxide Management Solutions for a Net-Zero Switzerland).
As of October 2023, he has published about 450 papers that have been cited more than 25,000 times, resulting in an H-index of 85 (Google Scholar). Sixty-one doctoral students have graduated with him, and fourteen doctoral students are currently advised by him.
He was the chair of the 9th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption FOA9 (Taormina, I, May 20–25, 2007), of the 18th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (Zurich, CH, September 15–16, 2011), and of the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Carbon, Capture, Utilization and Storage (Les Diablerets, CH, May 5-10, 2019).
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