Tue, April 7, 2015 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Location: UBC EDC Building - Design Studio
102-2345 East Mall, Vancouver BC
Speaker:
Dr. Adam D. Hawkes,
Sustainable Gas Institute,
Imperial College London,
Deputy Director
http://www.sustainablegasinstitute.org
Abstract:
Natural gas is at a crossroads. On one hand, the significant potential of unconventional gas reserves offers economic and energy security benefits, whilst on the other the imperative to mitigate climate change challenges a significant role for any unabated fossil fuels in the medium term. The Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI) was founded in 2014 to build a vision for the role of gas in sustainable energy systems, driven by innovation in science and engineering and a unique global research partnership to assess and bring forward the technologies that could underpin this role.
This talk presents the key technology challenges that natural gas faces; energy efficiency in upstream and LNG operations, the need for innovations across the gas value chain, and the technical possibilities for carbon capture, storage and use. These thematic deep-dives into technical needs then build up into a whole-systems perspective of gas exploration, production, transport and utilization, set within a framework of competing energy vectors and the entangled needs of energy affordability, security and the environment. Finally, the SGI’s role in building a global industry-academia partnership tackling these research challenges is set out, highlighting opportunities for collaboration and engagement.
For more information, please contact cerc@cerc.ubc.ca. Thank you.