Systems Engineering Research, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford: Atmospheric Carbon Removal
Systems Engineering Research
Environmental and Biological Systems Engineering
Atmospheric Carbon Removal
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere, often referred to as negative emission technologies, aims to stabilize the climate through restoring the atmospheric CO2 concentration to a safe level. Collaborating with colleagues from other disciplines such as earth science and mineral science and engineering, our work in this area investigates the potential of enhanced weathering and related schemes, with the hope to design systems that can operate under mild conditions in order to avoid prohibiting energy and economic costs.
Selected Recent Publications:
Xing, L., Pullin, H., Bullock, L., Renforth, P., Darton, R. C., & Yang, A. (2021). Potential of enhanced weathering of calcite in packed bubble columns with seawater for carbon dioxide removal. Chemical Engineering Journal. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2021.134096
Bullock, L., Yang, A., & Darton, R. (2021). Kinetics-informed global assessment of mine tailings for CO2 removal. Science of the Total Environment, 808. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152111
Xing, L., Yang, A., & Darton, R. C. (2021). Enhanced weathering to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide: Modeling of a trickle‐bed reactor. AIChE Journal, 67(5). doi:10.1002/aic.17202