Carbon Management Canada-an update.

Richard Adamson(Managing Director)

Steve Larter(Scientific Director)

Changing How Canada Innovates

First Annual CMC-NCE Conference

• May 17th to 20th

• Westin Hotel• Keynote Speaker – Brian Launder, Manchester University• Theme leaders talks• Workshops

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Purpose of the Network• Focus Canada’s academic research

-Elevate ambition & collaboration among institutions (26 members to date), with industry & government practitioners• Create game-changing technologies,

insights and processes• Train Highly Qualified People• Facilitate rapid and effective exchange

of information among researchers and practitioners

… in order to reduce carbon emissions in the fossil energy sector

Carbon Management CanadaA nation-wide, university-led, multidisciplinary research network that will develop the game-changing technologies and the business, social and policy frameworks necessary to rapidly “decarbonize” fossil fuel production and utilization (26 academic institutions, 60 research groups)

Academic partners

CMC-NCE Structure

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Board of DirectorsNCE Secretariat

Administrative Team Research Team

Advisory

Advisory

Membership

Board of Directors

• Up to 15 voting (2 vacancy)• 7 non-voting (2 vacancy)• Academic: 6 voting (2 int’l); 1 non-voting

(stud.) • Government: 1 voting; 3 non-voting• Industry: 3 voting; 1 non-voting• Independent: 5 voting (incl. 2 int’l

academic)• Management: 1 voting; 1 non-voting

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CMC-NCE: Membership

• Academic Institutional Members – Network Agreement Signatories

• Institutional Members (Non-Academic)– Corporate Sponsors– NGO’s– International Research Institutions

• Individual Members– Network Investigators– (Institutional Investigators)

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56%33%7%

4%

CMC Funding: $45.06M (Aug 24, 2009)

NCE Request ($25 million)

Provincial (AB)

Industry

Federal (non-NCE)

Cash Funding – 1st 5 years

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Total Expenditures

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10%

13%

25%

44%

3.0%2.0%

2.4% 1.2% Salaries and StipendsOperation of Core FacilitiesEquipmentMaterials and SuppliesComputing (No cash costs)Travel ExpensesAdministrative Centre Management and NetworkingAll Other Costs (Contingency)

Current Industry Sponsors

• Sustaining Sponsors– Suncor– ConocoPhillips– Capital Power

• Supporting Sponsors– Cenovus– Spectra Energy– Atco Power– Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

• Program Sponsor– TransAlta

• Research Industry Participant/Sponsor– Carbon Engineering

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Administration

• Managing Director– Richard Adamson

• Finance Director– Nick Suleman

• Communications Director– Ruth Klinkhammer

• Sr. Advisor– Wayne Patton

• Programs Manager– Dr. Anita Arduini

• IT Director– Dr. Patrick Mann

• Exec Assistant– Renata Robson

• Reception– Sonya Lempel

• HQP (summer)– Naeema Bhayat

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Website

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CMC Website:• Live in January• Features CMC &

industry news• Researchers can

post news, jobs, blogs, photos and more

Carbon Commons

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The shared aims of IPAC-CO2 and CMC-NCE include the development of collaborative environments which will encourage innovation and creativity.  

http://www.carboncommons.ca

This web portal provides a common, shared site in which the industrial and academic communities can recognize and develop common practices, share data and applications, and create new solutions to global carbon emissions and storage problems.

Scientific/Research

• RMX– Scientific Director

• Dr. Steve Larter

– Associate S.D.• Dr. Bernhard Mayer

– Theme Leads:• Dr. John Shaw• Dr. John Grace• Dr. Don Lawton• Dr. James

Meadowcroft

– Managing Director• Richard Adamson

• RMC (RMX +)– NCE Secretariat– ConocoPhillips– Suncor– NRCan– AIEES– Academic (x2)

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Project Funding Process

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Research TeamSubmit

RMX Prelim Review

International Review

RMC Prioritize & Recommend

Board Approve

Admin Process

NCE Monitorprocess

New Programs

• Workshops (coming year)– Risk Assessment/Management (CCS)– Communication & Public Engagement– Cost Reduction Through Advanced System Integration

(CCS)– Knowledge Sharing (CCS +?)

• Carbon Commons– Collaborative tools– Analytical tools– New functionality

• Emergent Issues Program• International collaboration programs• New funding programs

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Engagement with organisations

• Global CCS Institute • Integrated CO2 Network (ICO2N) • International Performance

Assessment Centre (IPAC-CO2)• JCOAL-Japan Coal Energy Center• Stanford Center for Carbon

Sequestration (industry consortium)

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Carbon Reduction Options

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• Common sense and policy enablement• Increased efficiency• Nuclear• Solar thermal• Solar PV• Wind/ tidal energy• Nth generation (algal) biofuels

• Low total emission fossil fuels• Carbon Dioxide Reduction Geoengineering (air capture, accelerated rock weathering)

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Strategies

• Mitigation(efficiency, CCS, renewables) and adaptation• Mitigation, adaptation and

geoengineering • Change of social processes

DeliveredTechnologyAndPolicies

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Calgary

Toronto

Victoria

Edmonton

Halifax

Saskatoon

Kitchener

Ottawa/Gatineau

Vancouver Montreal

Silicon ValleyLondon ON

Quebec/Hamilton/Windsor

http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/flash/innovation_clusters/

Innovation crisisCanadian Energy sector and Universities punching way below their weight!

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Canada: An innovation deficit?

Globally:

•Public energy R&D funding has fallen by up to 50% in real terms in major developed countries over the last 25 years.

•Energy R&D as a share of total R&D in OECD countries declined from 11% in 1985 to 3% in 2005.

•CNPC/Shell >1B$ R&D 2010

Nationall

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•Canadian business R&D declined by 20% between 2001 and 2007 (consistently below the OECD average).

By Sector in Cda (2007):

•0.2%-0.7% for Canadian Energy Companies

•0.5%-2.4% for other resource companies

•0.9% to 23% for Canadian techno-centric companies

Matt McCulloch Pembina

What is wrong with this picture?

Key Learnings from Silicon Valley• High idea volume needed• Disruptive approaches• Rapid prototyping(piloting) and

iteration(key to biology and IT)• Risk taking• Expectation and acceptance of failure in

many projects• Openness about success of existing

technology!

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Emerson report May 5 2011

CMC Innovation

• Institutional Innovation and Innovation Barriers (Theme D program) James Meadowcroft.

• Fund ambitious research industry+ government + academia RMC• Change culture in industry and academia• Workshops to break down barriers and facilitate idea

volume increase(workshop this week)• Innovation café• Carbon commons website for CMC and external

crowdsourcing of problems and solutions (IPAC)• Generating a lot more good ideas

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Web innovation system

• Crowdsourcing research solutions; matching seekers and solvers

• Repository of existing work and solutions• Voluntary coordination of innovation

programs across the sector• Stopping wheel reinvention and promoting

warp drive innovation• High volume idea generator• Collaboration system

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Where are we?

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1. Integrate Canada’s fossil fuel energy research community to enable a practical response to national GHG reduction targets.

2. Create transformative technologies and societal changes to enable the reduction of GHG emissions from the production of fossil fuel energy

3. Produce a trained cadre of technical and social scientists, engineers and technologists for the development and deployment of solution technologies

CMC Research in a Nutshell

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Research Management Committee• Dr. Steve Larter (ex officio)

Scientific DirectorCarbon Management Canada

• Richard AdamsonManaging DirectorCarbon Management Canada

• Dr. Marc D’IorioDirector GeneralOffice of Energy Research and Development, NRCan

• Dr. John Grace, ProfessorUniversity of British Columbia

• Dr. Don Lawton, ProfessorUniversity of Calgary

• Mike ScribnerManager, Technology and Optimization, Oil SandsConocoPhillips Canada

• Dr. Bernhard Mayer, ProfessorUniversity of Calgary

• Dr. James Meadowcroft, ProfessorCarleton University

• Dr. Andrew Pollard, Professor and Queens Research ChairMechanical and Materials EngineeringQueens University

• Dr. Nancy Olewiler, ProfessorSimon Fraser University

• Jim RowleyIndependent

• Dr. John Shaw, ProfessorUniversity of Alberta

• Dr. John ZhouExecutive Director, Environmental TechnologiesAlberta Innovates, Energy and Environmental Solutions

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Effecting culture change in the innovation community (long term plan!)

• Raise Ambition• Increase Scale of Research Targets• Change nature of HQP workforce(more

PhD, postdocs, technicians)• Increased focus on actual technological

outputs and deployments• Much greater engagement of industry and

academia• Bring in other technical communities

Round 2 Process• Call for proposals• Pre-proposal review by email• Proposals received• RMCX withdrew 6 proposals as non compliant or

inappropriate• All remaining proposals sent for international

review• Reviews sent to RMC• RMC reviewed all proposals submitted and

graded all• During individual project review all conflicted

individuals were absent from the room• Review process monitored by NCE representative

Structural Issues Identified

–Academic model issues–Industrial coFunding level issues

–Innovation process issues –Inter university communication issues

Some general issues

– Academic model Issues(many lone PI “traditional” proposals still with an over emphasis on Masters students-DG model).

– Industrial coFunding level issues(few significant industrial cofunders and many applicants seem reluctant to pursue funds while industry is less than proactive in supporting in some cases).

– Innovation process issues(need to develop a stronger innovation culture in Canadian Universities and business)

– Inter university communication and inefficiency issues

Round I Research Projects

Theme A - Recovery, Processing and Capture

• Fluidized bed gasification of low-grade coals and petcoke

• Integrated gasification and looping CO2 capture

• Rapid routes to carbon-efficient recovery of bitumen and heavy oil

• Development of direct air capture technology

• Hydrogen production and waste processing

Theme B - Enabling and Emerging Technologies

• Enabling the microbial capture of CO2 under anaerobic (subsurface) conditions

• A pore scale microlab to perform fundamental laboratory-based studies of CO2 transport and reactivity in reservoirs 35

http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/

Round I Research Projects - continued

Theme C - Secure Carbon Storage

• Storage geochemistry MMV

• Adapting Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment methods to site evaluation for carbon capture and storage

• Storage geophysics and monitoring

• Seismic behaviour of CO2 saturated sandstones: laboratory measurements and modelling

• Carbon mineralization in mine waste

• CO2 for CCS from fuel cells

Theme D – Accelerating Appropriate Deployment

• Assessing the potential of low carbon fossil-fuel/derived technologies: A life cycle environmental and techno-economic evaluation of the oil sands

• Governance Innovation and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy

• National and international legal and regulatory framework for

carbon management

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http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/

Round II Research Projects

Theme A - Recovery, Processing and Capture

• Designing Easy-Release CO2 Capture Sorbents at the Molecular Level

• "Development and Techno‐Economic Assessment of High Performance Amine Impregnated Solid Sorbents for Post Combustion CO2 Capture"

• Development of novel nanostructured photocatalysts for highly efficient solar photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to fuels

• Frustrated Lewis Pairs: A New Approach to CO2 Capture and Utilization

Theme B - Enabling and Emerging Technologies

• Material Development and Optimization for Zero CO2 Emission Energy Production

• Bioconversion of Coal by Enhanced Engineering Pathways into Fuel products

• CO2-microbubbles – A safe and secure technique for increased sequestration and EOR potential into oil/gas reservoirs

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Round II Research Projects - continued

Theme C - Secure Carbon Storage

• Distributed all-optical CO2 sensing for field-scale subsurface carbon management

• Innovative approach to microseismic monitoring of underground CO2 injection: Seismic interferometry and ultralow frequency deformations events

• Storage Geomechanics and Reservoir

Modelling

• Integrated Gravimetric and Geodetic Monitoring of Geological CO2 storage

• Secure storage of impure CO2 in the form of solid hydrate in depleted gas pools in Northern Alberta

Theme D - Accelerating Appropriate Deployment

• Carbon Policy Uncertainty, Investment Decisions, and Commercial Feasibility of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology

• Towards Effective Management: Assessing Stakeholder Attitudes & Public Controversy Surrounding Green House Gas Mitigation Energy Systems

• Removing Barriers and Cultivating Enablers to Innovation in Canada's Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Industry

• Understanding Barriers to Low-Carbon Tech. Investments in Oil and Gas Industry

• Risk Assessment and Mgmt. of CCS in a Canadian Context

• Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of ThreeTechnologies

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Cross cutting/Emerging Themes

• Nanotechnology• Sensors• Innovation• Communicating &

assessing risk & uncertainty

• Biology• Electrochemistry

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Advanced gasificationBiological insitu

gasification5 projects

More EfficientOil and gas recovery

and processing 2 projects

Novel capture technologies

5 projects

Carbon storage systematics and

innovative sensing10 projects

CDR Geoengineering

2 projects

Enabling change in policy and behaviour9 projects

Technology importBiology 2; Sensors 2 ; Nanotechnology 3;Electrochemistry 2

Warp driveGame-

changers

Communicating and assessing risk and

uncertainty 4 projects

Carbon neutral fossil fuels

1 projects

Research Portfolio

Enabling innovation and innovatingDefragment the research enterprise

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Cross cutting/Emerging Themes

• Nanotechnology• Sensors• Innovation• Communicating &

assessing risk & uncertainty

• Biology• Electrochemistry

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Workshops 2010 2011Date Leader Title

February 2010 John Grace Gasification and CO2 Capture (Saskatoon)

June 2010 John Shaw Insitu refining workshop

September 2010

Harrie Vredenburg

Innovation Workshop

September 2010

James Meadowcroft

Risk, Uncertainty and Carbon Storage workshop

April 2011 Wayne Patton & Richard Adamson

Carbon Management Canada Inc. and CCS Demonstration Projects in Canada

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Many accelerating technology areasBiology, nanotechnology, AI, internet science

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Key:rapid protoypingHigh idea volume

Sequence of desire: Coal;Bitumen; Oil; Methane; Hydrogen While gas and oil prices are disconnected carbon

prices would resolve that quickly

Modified after Kulcinski 2005

H/C=0.8

H/C=4.0

H2

Emissions_Ratio 0.8 4( ) 2.077

Emissions_Ratio 1.5 4( ) 1.841

CO2 emitted on a natural gas basisCoal and Bitumen

Subsurface microbial conversion of low hydrogen fuels to hydrogen or methane(Mitra poster)

• Anaerobic methanogenic biodegradation of hydrocarbons is the main biodegradation process in oil reservoirs including the oil sands reservoirs

• Syntrophus (Bacteria) + Methanomicrobiales (Archaea)Jones et al. Nature, 2008

MADCOR

(Gray et al., 2009)

pasteurization

Methanogens in Oil Fields

Response to nutrients and CO2+H2

(Adams et al., 2009)

CCS Field Research and Training Site for CCS measurement, monitoring and verification (MMV)

• Don Lawton

• Initially proposed to be developed on University of Calgary land near Priddis, Alberta.

• Geological model and CO2 storage simulation research completed in the fall of 2010.

• Site proposal withdrawn in Feb. 2011 due to land-use concerns from land donors.

• Alternative sites are currently under review with advanced discussions with the most promising being proximal to Project Pioneer.

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Key areas for future activity–Research–Technology development–Education / development of Highly Qualified People

–Outreach-Public understanding of risk and uncertainty

–Knowledge sharing across sectors–Trusted honest broker

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Key questions for us all!• How do we change the culture in industry and academia to become more effective

in collaboration and delivery of technology and policy?• How do technology focussed academics get involved with industry?• How do we get industry and investors to make serious investments in CMC and

technology? • How do we form stable linkages to demonstration projects?• How do we optimally use our resources to engender spinoffs, train staff and develop

technology and policy?• How do we get students and postdocs active in spinout generation (Technology

scholarships?)• What should our next call for proposals look like-what targets?• How do we engage at a global level with other similar organisations?• How do we maintain our credibility?• How do we revise strategy and improve quality control on our research program ?• What should the balance of basic research versus applied research be?• How do we link carbon capture and storage research?• How do we link technical and social science research• How do we improve our linkages to renewable energy research, biochar

and other relevant sectors?

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Show stoppers in Carbon Management

• No game-changing technology

• No social engagement or mandate to deploy technologies at large scale(e.g. Public concern about CCS)

• Insufficient trained staff to deploy solutions at large scale

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Engagement with organisations

• Global CCS Institute • Integrated CO2 Network (ICO2N) • International Performance

Assessment Centre (IPAC-CO2)• JCOAL-Japanese Coal……• Stanford Carbon Capture & Storage

Consortium

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Engagement with industrial programs• CCS Projects

– Fort Nelson CCS Project – Spectra Energy– North West Upgrading– Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) - Enhance

Energy Inc.– Shell Quest Project,– Swan Hills Synfuels– Project Pioneer – TransAlta – Weyburn-Midale CO2 Project, Cenovus – Boundary Dam Project – SaskPower

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Carbon Management Canada and Technology Pilots CMC can contribute to:

– Meta-level systems mapping and planning to develop a shared vision and goals, understanding of complementary roles, clarifying issues and developing performance measurement frameworks.

– Bridging the gap between research communities and the CCS projects currently underway.

– Facilitating technical support for existing projects• a summary of who’s who (list of experts and organizations), and who is

doing what• building teams of appropriate experts to work on common technical/policy

issues (matching experts with needs)• Undertaking research that would be of common value to many of the

projects• Providing research services • Undertaking research or learning exercises that would pilot public

engagement processes in a low-risk situation (i.e. simulate what might occur in the case of an actual project)

– Development of HQP and coordinated HQP planning– Organizing collaborative workshops/meetings – Undertaking public education and outreach – Finding ways to reduce IP barriers while respecting licensing

agreements – Extending the CMC collaborative web-based platform to support the

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Possible new call or investment areas?????

• Enabling activities• A system of industrial internships for graduate students and post

docs• Innovation or technology scholarships for inventors, boffins,

entrepreneurial students, postdocs, technicians• How do we engage with the technology investment community?• Priority Research Topics• Some focus on immediate technical needs of demonstration

pilots(new dollars)• Broad calls versus specific targeting?• What are your views?• Workshops• What areas? Do you want to run one?

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Summary• Program underway-some glitches but a good first

year• Technical collaboration in projects and on test site

programs• Collaborations with some but not many industry

partners• Collaboration in outreach and public information

activities • Collaboration in innovation activities across

sector(PTAC, OSLI, IPAC)• CMC has funding flexibility to support a variety of

joint programs• What do you think we should be doing in terms of

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This is your meeting-we want your feedback and

suggestions on how best to steer the program-let us

know this week and whenever.