AmpliFIRE: Raising Voices Against Rising Temperatures

May 1, 2021

Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Carbon capture and sequestration has been identified as a leading solution for climate change mitigation. However, the technology has encountered challenges in being implemented at scale. Ambika Natarajan will be speaking to an expert, Dr. Hari Mantripragada, to learn how carbon capture works as well as the technological, market and policy barriers that limit CCS from reaching its potential. This episode was adapted from a podcast initially written and produced by Maggie Layer, Max Rotenburg and Regina Luu, with their permission. This episode features an interview with Dr. Hari Mantripragada, a research scientist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on Energy Systems. Dr. Mantripragada received his bachelors in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, his masters in Energy Systems at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon, where he also completed a post-doctoral fellowship. He is a science and engineering ambassador for the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a member of both the US and International Association for Energy Economics. While we will be discussing some of the key takeaways from his paper, “Boundary Dam or Petra Nova — Which is a better model for CCS energy supply?” we also want to highlight his work on the Integrated Environmental Control Model, an open-access tool for measuring the cost performance and emissions of fossil fuel power plants. “Boundary Dam or Petra Nova — Which is a better model for CCS energy supply?” which was published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control in 2019 and is linked here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1750583618307436. Integrated Environmental Control Model: https://www.cmu.edu/epp/iecm/.

21 min