Course curriculum

  • 1

    General Introduction

    • Welcome by Marleen Rombouts

    • Welcome by Joeri Denayer

    • Meet the teachers

    • Learning objectives

    • Good practices to use this platform

    • How to obtain your course certificate
  • 2

    1. Overview of CO₂ capture strategies

    • Open question: technical solutions

    • Global context of CCUS

    • Overview of CO₂ capture approaches

    • Exercise 1: Difference in CO₂ concentration for the different CO₂ capture approaches

    • Exercise 2: Identify CO₂ capture approach

    • Exercise 3: Capture of CO₂ from small, distributed CO₂ sources

  • 3

    2. General overview of carbon capture technologies

    • Introduction

    • Cryogenic air distillation

    • Cryogenic CO₂ separation

    • Liquid absorption

    • Solid adsorption

    • Chemical looping

    • Membrane processes

    • Exercise: Recognising separation processes

  • 4

    3. Case Study 1: Postcombustion CO₂ capture via liquid absorption

    • Exercise: Estimate the CO₂ emissions

    • Exercise: Estimate the flue gas composition

    • The amine pilot plant

    • Exercise: Estimate the energy consumption

    • Multiple choice

    • Concluding remarks
  • 5

    4. Key-elements of solid adsorption reactors for CO₂ capture: Reactor types and sorbent materials

    • Introduction to solid adsorption

    • Solid adsorption reactor types - Sorbent packings & Flow configurations

    • Exercise: What is the most common reactor configuration for a solid adsorption process?

    • Selection of a CO₂ sorbent material

    • Overview of families of CO₂ sorbent materials

    • Exercise: Match CO₂ sorbents with their typical properties and/or application

    • Exercise: Impact of the multi-scale structure of an adsorbent material to the adsorption process

    • Exercise: How could you lower the total pressure drop in a conventional fixed bed reactor with spherical beads?

    • Characteristics of honeycomb shaped sorbent versus packed bed of sorbent beads

    • Exercise: Characteristic of honeycomb versus packed bed of beads (add explanation)
  • 6

    5. Introduction to Electrification of Adsorption Processes

    • Introduction

    • Comparison of Adsorption Technologies for Carbon Capture

    • Thermal Swing Adsorption in Carbon Capture

    • Why electrification?

    • Exercise on types of electrification methods
  • 7

    6. (Emerging) adsorption technology for carbon capture

    • Introduction to adsorption technology

    • Electrical Swing Adsorption (ESA)

    • Magnetic Induction Heating Swing Adsorption (MISA)

    • Microwave Swing Adsorption (MSA)

    • Exercise on basics: materials

    • Exercise: regeneration
  • 8

    Conclusion

    • Help us to improve this course

    • What did you learn?

    • Thanks to our collaborators
  • 9

    Map-it CCU Evaluation of the learning module

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Questionnaire - for INDUSTRIAL testers

    • Questionnaire - for ACADEMIC testers