Data: 13/04/11
Hora: 10:00
Lloc: Aula Magna de la Facultat de Geologia

Descripció:
The Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona, the Jaume Almera Institute of Earth Sciences (ICTJA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Geological Institute of Catalonia (IGC) and the Energy City Foundation (CIUDEN) are hosting the First Conference on the Geological Storage of CO2, a series of lectures on the capture and storage of CO2.

The containment and storage of CO2 is an area of increasing importance not only to geologists and geological engineers, but to professionals in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental science, and also to lawyers and economists. The need for regulations on fossil fuel emissions have lead to the development of a number of pilot projects (including the Spanish foundation CIUDEN) and have mobilized large numbers of human and material resources at a level of hands on-multidisciplinary research which would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. Part of what this means is that in the very near future there will be a substantial need for qualified professionals in geology and other specialties to face the challenges of teamwork focused on the identification, inventory, development and management of underground repositories for CO2 in the form of compressed liquid, along with other fluids.

Furthermore, businesses and public administrations will also become increasingly important actors in the development of this field.

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