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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