Course details

  • Study time: 4h

  • Target audience: Bachelor/Master students/Industry/academia representatives in the field of (Bio)chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnolo

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome video

    • Meet the teachers

    • Learning objectives

    • What do you want to learn?

    • Good practices to use this platform

    • How to obtain your course certificate
  • 2

    Climate change and international policy responses

    • Greenhouse gas emissions - setting the scene

    • Introduction to Climate change and international policy responses

    • Greenhouse gases and climate change – the physical basis

    • History of C (Climate/Carbon)

    • Question: Carbon Cyle

    • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

    • IPCC reports (1): Climate change until now and what to expect

    • IPCC reports (2): Impacts of anthropogenic climate change

    • IPCC reports (3): Mitigation strategies

    • UNFCCC and international climate negotiations since 1992

    • Timeline of important climate negotiations

    • EU climate policy

    • EU climate action

    • Questions: EU climate policy
  • 3

    Industrial greenhouse gas emissions and techno-economic assessment

    • Introduction: Industrial greenhouse gas emissions and TEA

    • Exercise: Greenhouse gasses

    • Industrial greenhouse gas emissions

    • What are the main sources of (industrial) greenhouse gas emissions?

    • Exercise: Industrial CO₂ emissions per sector

    • How do companies calculate their greenhouse gas emissions?

    • Exercise: Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions: examples

    • Basic materials production: CHEMICALS (1)

    • Basic materials production: CHEMICALS (2)

    • Basic materials production: IRON & STEEL

    • Basic materials production: CEMENT

    • Exercise: Ranking of energy use across different sectors

    • Industrial value chain: major consumers of basic materials

    • Mitigation technologies overview

    • Mitigation technologies overview: concrete examples

    • Exercise: Mitigation technologies in specific sectors

    • Introduction to techno-economic assessment

    • What is a techno-economic assessment (TEA)?

    • Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

    • Overview of important elements and definitions in a TEA

    • CAPEX/OPEX - quiz

    • Exercise: Net Present Value formula

  • 4

    CCU as part of industrial climate transition

    • Your opinion

    • Introducing CCU

    • Pop quiz: Current CO₂ utilisation pathways

    • What is CCU?

    • Exercise: MeOH as CCU molecule

    • Mapping CCU technologies

    • Introduction to the process KPIs

    • Pop Quiz: CO₂ mitigation potential

    • Chemical processes (part 1)

    • Chemical processes (part 2)

    • Chemical processes (part 3)

    • Exercise: Energy consumption CCU technologies

    • Electrochemical processes

    • Biochemical and biological processes

    • Exercise: TEA of hydrogenated CCU chemicals

    • Discussing CCU

    • CCU challenges

    • Future perspective of e-fuels

    • CCU under EU legislation
  • 5

    Industrial climate policy – case studies

    • Introduction to Industrial Climate Policy

    • Framework conditions for industrial transition

    • Economical and other constraints

    • Brief introduction to the EU Emissions Trading System

    • EU Emissions Trading System

    • Exercise: Sectors covered by ETS

    • Clean Industrial Deal
  • 6

    Conclusion

    • What did you learn?

    • Thanks to our sponsors

  • 7

    Map-it CCU Evaluation of the learning module

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Questionnaire - for INDUSTRIAL testers

    • Questionnaire - for ACADEMIC testers

Instructor(s)

Researcher

Tomas Wyns

Tomas Wyns is a Researcher in the Environment and Sustainable Development cluster at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Tomas is working on European and international climate policy, in particular the design of the EU Emissions Trading System, post 2020 industrial and innovation policy and enhancing global climate action under a 2015 international climate agreement.

Researcher

Stijn Van der Perre

Stijn works at the Environment, Economy and Energy (3E) research center as a senior researcher in the framework of Procura (Power to X and Carbon Capture & Utilisation Roadmap for Belgium) and projects in light of sustainable chemistry.