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The Queen Mary Carbon Capture and Storage Minisymposium

24 March 2026

Power, metal production, ammonia production, cement - these industries can be decarbonized using geological storage. But we, the chemical engineers, should first solve all the issues! (snapshot from doi 10.2139/ssrn.5472887)
Power, metal production, ammonia production, cement - these industries can be decarbonized using geological storage. But we, the chemical engineers, should first solve all the issues! (snapshot from doi 10.2139/ssrn.5472887)

Join engineers from Shell and RWE leading large decarbonization projects and QM students doing projects on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – five presentations dedicated to one route to tackling the climate crisis.

Date: 31 March, 14:00-16:00
Place: IQ Court East 1.04, Mile End Campus
Or join online: MS Teams link - click here

Programme:

14:00-14:20 Introductions

14:40-15:00 CCS hub projects - pipeline corrosion and specifications for the purity of CCS streams
Hans Sonke, Shell (online)

15:00-15:20 Cement plant decarbonization - distillation CCS
team KJW Cement, Queen Mary

15:20-15:40 Gas plant decarbonization - solvent CCS
team Gas Girlies, Queen Mary

15:40-16:00 Cement plant decarbonization - oxocombustion
team Cement Crew, Queen Mary

14:20-14:40 The Staythorpe CCS project
Jamie Hopkins, RWE

Contact:Radomir Slavchov
Email:r.slavchov@qmul.ac.uk
People:Radomir SLAVCHOV
Research Centre:Sustainable Engineering