What you will learn:

This education program provides comprehensive material covering the CCUS value chain, addressing all the aspects affecting its industrial deployment (technical, economic, environmental, social, legislative, and financing). It will provide an introduction to the context of decarbonization and the role CCUS will play, as well as introduce the audience to the different technologies and CCUS pathways with the link to the targeted CO₂ industrial source, their involved costs, and environmental performance, then finishing with the required legislation, social & financing frameworks for deployment of such an industry.

The Courses:

The program is articulated around six modules:

1. Carbon accounting, certification, market & Financing
2. CO₂ Capture from the different sectors
3. CO₂ handling, sequestration & utilisation
4. Chemical engineering in CCUS
5. Techno-economics of CCUS
6. Life Cycle, social, & policy assessments

 

Summary :

Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, CCUS, has the potential to be established as a huge knowledge-based industry incentivized by the need to cut 7% per year to meet the 1.5 °C global warming targets. CCUS is now recognized as a key tool for decarbonizing the hard-to-abate industry (e.g., phosphate, cement, waste-to-energy). Cheap renewable energy is key for enabling the massive deployment of such an industry while maximizing its environmental performance. In this aspect, Africa is well positioned for accommodating the different value chains of the CCUS industry, given the large renewable energy potential, sequestration and mineralization resource availability, as well as the complementarity with the different priorities of the green hydrogen economy, biogenic energy, and water management. CCUS can boost those priorities, both as an enabler (e.g., use of the captured CO₂ from hard-to-abate industry to produce renewable methanol, jet fuel, green chemicals & fertilizers) and for waste handling. Carbon-negative pathways are also on the rise worldwide, driven by the need to suck CO₂ from the atmosphere, bringing large opportunities in the carbon credit market. The deployment of CCUS can mitigate the negative impact of the newly established CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) taxation being applied by the EU on imports, risking reducing African industry competitiveness, through increased costs.

Key Benefits :

This is a unique, comprehensive program, blending several disciplines and methods, to assess CCUS value chains for industrial decarbonization purposes within an entrepreneurial mindset aiming to maximize the environmental benefits while maintaining economic and social growth.

Who Should Attend ?

Engineers, energy & industrial consultants, environmentalists, geologists, chemists, entrepreneurs. A minimum master or engineering degree is accepted to enroll in the program.