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Contents 1 CO2 and Sequestration Links 1.1 Top Sites 1.1.1 US Federal Government 1.1.2 US State Government 1.1.3 Other Government 1.1.4 University 1.2 Meetings and Conferences 1.3 Projects 1.4 Other 1.5 Quantitative 1.6 Lesser Sites 1.6.1 Papers 1.6.2 Presentations 2 Wiki Credit

CO2 and Sequestration Links

Top Sites

US Federal Government

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Orbiting Carbon Observatory Failed launch Feb 24, 2009 Story
• National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
    • CarbonTracker
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Energy Information Administration (IEA)
    • Emissions of Greenhouse Gasses in the U.S. 2007 (Dec 2008, 64 pp) PDF 1.3MB
  • National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
    • Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting of CO2 Stored in Deep Geologic Formations Jan. 2009
      • The Report PDF 11.3 MB
    • Carbon Sequestration Technologies
    • Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
    • 2008 Carbon Sequestration Atlas II of the United States and Canada ― Version 2

US State Government

• Midcontinent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Relational dataBase (MIDCARB)

Other Government

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • Assesment Reports (1990,1992,1995,2001)
  • Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report (Nov 2007, 52 pp) PDF 4MB

University

• Purdue Project Vulcan
• MIT Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (CCST)
  • Worldwide CO2 Capture and Storage Projects
  • Worldwide CO2 Storage Only Projects
• Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI)
• Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)
• UT Austin Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC)

Meetings and Conferences

CO2 Capture, Sequestration & Utilization 2009 Beijing, China

AllConferences.com Broad searchable database, including past meetings

Projects

IEA R&D Projects Database

American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Interactive US Map

Other

• McKinsey&Co Report ... Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost ? (Dec 2007, 107 pp) PDF 4.1MB
  • Must reading. Classifies CO2 abatement methods by probable cost (US$/ton), concluding that carbon capture and sequestration is a very expensive option.
• CO2 Capture Project
• International Energy Administration

Quantitative

• Fluid Properties... excellent
• MIDCARB Sequestration Calculators
• MIT CO2 Thermophysical Property Calculator (Internet Explorer only)
• Carbon Dioxide Dissociation Applet
• CREWES Fluid Property Calculator
• C02 Reduction Calculator
• Greenhouse Effect
• CO2 Phase diagrams
  • From 'Green chemistry: Designed to dissolve', Walter Leitner (Nature, v.405, p.129-130, 11 May 2000)
  • U. Warwick Supercritical Carbonation Project
  • Queens U. Belfast, Dr. M. J. Muldoon
• General
  • Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center

Lesser Sites

• Wikipedia
• Greenpeace Disparages Sequestration

Papers

• Google search for PDFs on C02 Sequestration
  • Harvard 2005 paper by Stephens and van der Zwaan
• CO2 migration in saline formations LBNL paper#59082 2005

Presentations

• Google search for PPTs on C02 Sequestration
  • C. Peters, CO2 Sequestration (2008) PPT 7 MB

Wiki Credit

• Prof. Christopher L. Liner Director Reservoir Quantification Lab, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston