IUCRC Planning Grant, Pennsylvania State University: Center for CO2 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction Technologies (CO2-SMART)

IUCRC 规划拨款，宾夕法尼亚州立大学：二氧化碳封存建模、分析和风险降低技术中心 (CO2-SMART)

• 批准号: 2329323
• 负责人: Sanjay Srinivasan
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2329323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; Pennsylvania; State

Geologic CO2 storage is a critical technology with enormous economic impact that can enable the global energy industry to meet their environmental, governance, and societal responsibilities. It will also help address climate change challenges while transitioning to renewable sources of energy. The magnitude of the economic impact of CO2 sequestration is unprecedented and there is strong buy-in from the federal government and the energy and other industrial sectors. This National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) planning grant combines the expertise and power of talent and infrastructure of the University of Southern California and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to create a 2-Site IUCRC. This combination of universities brings together geoscientists, data scientists, engineers, educators, and industry stakeholders to create a multi-sponsored research program designed to accelerate the development, adaptation, and deployment of novel technologies for improved modeling, continuous monitoring, imaging, analytics and risk assessment and mitigation for subsurface CO2 sequestration. Broader impacts of the activity will be to develop synergistic activities that address the highest priorities of the private sector in carbon sequestration to help them overcome hurdles preventing them from offering new and improved products and services. A major contribution of any Center that comes from this meeting will be workforce training in carbon sequestration and public outreach to local primary teachers and schools. The role of the Penn State Site in the planned IUCRC is to integrate advances in geophysics/geochemical technologies and data science algorithms to improve characterization of reservoir and caprock response to CO2. It will also investigate effective energy economics and policies to propose best-practices that companies can readily adopt to ensure the economic success of future GCS projects. The specific research areas to the Penn State Site include: real-time seismic monitoring from the lab to the field, CO2-fluid-rock interactions and transport dynamics in confined pore spaces, and fluid permeability/porosity imaging of CO2–induced permeability evolution. It will also apply Machine Learning enabled multi-physics modeling to upscaling and data assimilation and determine economic drivers for Geologic CO2 Storage. Penn State workforce training efforts will be to develop a diverse and inclusive educational and outreach program for training the next generation of engineers and scientists to generate a technical workforce with essential skillsets to successfully deploy and operate long-term geologic CO2 sequestration projects. Penn State will recruit students from Fort Valley State University and Lincoln University, two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to bring diverse perspectives into the carbon sequestration workforce. Additional outreach will include providing field trips for fourth graders in Centre County, PA to the Minerals Museum at Penn State.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

地质二氧化碳封存是一项具有巨大经济影响的关键技术，可以使全球能源行业履行其环境、治理和社会责任，同时也有助于应对气候变化挑战，同时向可再生能源转型。二氧化碳封存的影响是前所未有的，并且得到了联邦政府、能源和其他工业部门的大力支持。国家科学基金会产学合作研究中心（IUCRC）的规划拨款结合了人才和基础设施的专业知识和力量。南加州大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）创建了一个 2 个站点的 IUCRC。这种大学组合汇集了地球科学家、数据科学家、工程师、教育工作者和行业利益相关者，创建了一个多方赞助的研究项目，旨在加速开发、适应、部署新技术以改进地下二氧化碳封存的建模、连续监测、成像、分析和风险评估和缓解。该活动的更广泛影响将是开发协同活动，解决私营部门在碳封存方面的最高优先事项，以帮助解决问题。他们克服了阻碍他们提供新的和改进的产品和服务的障碍，这次会议的一个主要贡献将是碳封存方面的劳动力培训以及对当地小学教师和学校的公众宣传。计划中的IUCRC将整合地球物理/地球化学技术和数据科学算法的进步，以改善储层和盖层对二氧化碳的响应特征，还将研究有效的能源经济学和政策，提出企业可以轻松采用的最佳实践，以确保经济。未来的成功宾夕法尼亚州立大学站点的具体研究领域包括：从实验室到现场的实时地震监测、有限孔隙空间中的二氧化碳-流体-岩石相互作用和输运动力学，以及二氧化碳引起的流体渗透率/孔隙度成像。它还将应用机器学习支持的多物理建模来升级和数据同化，并确定宾夕法尼亚州立大学劳动力培训工作的经济驱动因素，以开发多样化和包容性的教育和推广计划。宾夕法尼亚州立大学将招募来自福特谷州立大学和林肯大学这两所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的学生，培养下一代工程师和科学家，培养一支具备成功部署和运营长期地质二氧化碳封存项目所需技能的技术队伍。为碳封存工作人员带来不同的观点。其他外展活动将包括为宾夕法尼亚州中心县的四年级学生提供前往宾夕法尼亚州立大学矿物博物馆的实地考察。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。