Principal Investigator: Dr. Ryosuke Okuno
https://www.ryosukeokuno.com/es-carbonut
The Energi Simulation industrial affiliate program on Carbon UTilization and Storage (ES Carbon UT), established in 2021, consists of 6 major projects in the areas of carbon capture/conversion/transportation/storage, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and hydrogen energy. Each member company contributes $75,000 per year as a grant to the University and in return receives all the research results from the program.
Major Projects
- Development of novel functional solvents for CO2 capture (e.g., surface-active amines)
- CO2 removal by enhanced weathering
- Electrification of CO2 conversion processes (e.g., bicarbonate electrolysis)
- Control over CO2 plume and trapping mechanisms using engineered fluids and materials (e.g., mineral carbonation in basalt, and use of nanofluids for wettability control)
- Formate species as carbon and hydrogen carriers and/or as an EOR agent
- Aqueous nanobubble dispersion of CO2
- CO2 transport and storage in tight porous media
- Carbon emission reduction in oil recovery from unconventional reservoirs (heavy oil and tight oil)
- Economic analysis of carbon management value chains
Software Development
- Tight Reservoir Simulator, TigRes
- UTCHEM
- Thermodynamic PVT package (cubic EOS and GERG 2008)
Member Companies
Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production
Energi Simulation
Formosa Petrochemical
Idemitsu Kosan
INPEX
Japan Petroleum Exploration
JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration
Nissan Chemical
Occidental
