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Clean coal (1): Combustion, capture and storage
Speaker abstracts and biographies
Chair: Richard Brookie, Project Director, CarbonNet, Department of Primary Industries
Richard Brookie, has over 21 years of experience in leadership and management of large scale infrastructure projects both locally and internationally. This experience includes projects in the Peoples Republic of China; the Republic of the Philippines and New Zealand.
As a Director of True North Consulting Group, his current role is the Project Director for the Department of Primary Industries - CarbonNet Project.
The global status of carbon capture and storage
The presentation will provide a global overview of carbon capture and storage (CCS) focusing on the status of CCS projects and progress to date, key risks and challenges to CCS and near term opportunities. It will include an array of project facts and figures from recent and soon to be released publications and highlight how the Global CCS Institute is supporting the commercial deployment of CCS. Participants will gain an understanding of the global position of CCS, its importance and the need for urgent and sustained action so that CCS can fulfil its role as a central climate change mitigation technology.
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Andrew Roden, Head of Project Analysis and Development, Global CCS Institute, Canberra, Australia
Andrew has a Master’s of Science in Renewable Energy and Industrial Energy Efficiency. Over the past 18 months, Andrew has been part of the establishment team for the Global CCS Institute and has been responsible for undertaking a comprehensive audit of the world’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. As the Head of Project Analysis and Development, Andrew leads the analysis of projects identifying progress to date and barriers to deployment and leverages this analysis to lead the initiation and development of new CCS projects especially in developing nations and industrial sectors.
Prior to this, Andrew played a key role in the Australian Government’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism designing, implementing and administering industrial energy efficiency initiatives.
CarbonNet – Victoria’s CCS network
A number of individual projects in capture, transport and storage, including projects which have been selected under the State’s $110 million Energy Technology Innovation Strategy CCS Large Scale Demonstration Program (ETIS2) will collectively constitute the first stage of the CarbonNet Project.
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Dr Richard Aldous, Deputy Secretary Energy and Earth Resoruces, Department of Primary Industries
Dr Richard Aldous, Victoria’s Deputy Secretary of Energy and Earth Resources, has been with the Victorian Government since 2002. His background is in geoscience, chemical engineering, technology, business development and corporate planning.
Prior to government he worked with a number of international resources companies including BHP, Newcrest, Iluka and Western Mining Corporation (WMC). Richard has been actively involved in promoting the strategic use of Victoria’s brown coal including technology demonstration and carbon capture and storage.
He has also overseen the development of new legislation for geothermal resources and carbon sequestration.
Professor Kelly Thambimuthu, Professorial Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
Kelly Thambimuthu is a professorial fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the Chairman of the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Program and has more than 30 years R&D experience in the field of low emission technology. His previous roles have been as scientist and program director at CANMET Energy, Natural Resources Canada and as CEO of the Centre for Low Emission Technology in Australia.
He was also an editorial panel member and coordinating lead author of the 2005 IPCC Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage and recipient of the 1998 Natural Resources Canada award for innovation in climate change mitigation technologies, the 2006 IEA-CIAB award for the sustainable development of coal and a contributor to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC. He is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, UK and from McGill University, Canada.
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CCS in the context of Australia’s energy mix: state of play and where to from here
Coal currently provides around 80 per cent of Australia’s electricity generation capacity. Coal is also our largest export commodity and is the lifeblood of many of our rural and regional communities. However, coal also accounts for 32 per cent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. While coal's share of future power generation will decline in favour of renewable energy and less greenhouse gas intensive fuels such as natural gas, because of the time it will take to prove up the viability of large scale renewable energy generation and to construct alternative generating capacity, coal will continue to play a vital role in meeting Australia’s expanding energy needs well into the future. Technological solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal use are essential in achieving our emissions reduction targets at reasonable cost.
For this reason the Australian Government has taken a leadership role in accelerating the commercial development and deployment of CCS through initiatives both domestically and in collaboration with other major fossil fuel users. This presentation will look at these initiatives and discuss the work currently being undertaken, as well as future work to assure Australia’s contribution to the accelerated deployment of CCS.
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Margaret Sewell, Head of Division - Clean Energy, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
Prior to taking up her position with the Division, Margaret was the General Manager of the Low Emissions Coal and CO2 Storage Branch in the Department, with specific areas of responsibility including accelerating the commercial deployment of low emissions fossil fuel technologies, managing the geological storage of CO2 in subsea areas in Commonwealth waters and the $1.9 billion CCS Flagships Program.
Margaret represents the Australian Government on a range of international forums in the CCS and methane reduction sector and is the Chief Executive Officer of ACRE.
Previously, Margaret headed up the Taxation and Projects Branch in Resources Division, looking after mine safety, minerals and petroleum taxation and the cement industry. She has also worked in Invest Australia, with responsibility for promoting investment opportunities in the Australian mining, energy, infrastructure and agribusiness sectors and in the Energy and Environment Division of the Department in the greenhouse and wholesale electricity areas.
