Theme 3

CO2 Conversion

The Theme 3 research group led by Dr. Marc Strous, PhD, is engaged in developing processes for CO2 conversion and sequestration, as well as for producing hydrogen or electricity from petroleum reservoirs. The research team converts CO2 to fuel and commodity chemicals by combining recent advances in low-temperature and mixed metal oxide catalysts with new, porous electrode materials for electrolytic cells. The researchers convert CO2 to biomass by combining designer microbiomes with printed electronics 
(organic solar cells).

For CO2 sequestration, they make use of the uniquely instrumented Alberta field site at the Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI). For carbon capture, Theme 3 researchers are developing new metal-organic frameworks and process configurations. This research envisages petroleum reservoirs as geological microbial fuel cells or flow batteries, with electrodes placed inside the reservoir or electron shuttles recycled between the reservoir and an above ground fuel cell.

UCalgary Projects

Synthetic Fuels

UCalgary Leads: Warren Piers, Viola Birss, Kunal Karan, Gregory Welch, Roland Roesler, Sathish Ponnurangam, Simon Trudel

Bioenergy

UCalgary Leads: Marc Strous, Gregory Welch, Jeff Van Humbeck, Jinguang Hu, Hector De la Hoz Siegler, Josephine Hill, Justin MacCallum, Sathish Ponnurangam, Samira Siahrostami

Phoenix

UCalgary Leads: Steve Larter, MD Golam Kibria, Jinguang Hu, Venkataraman Thangadurai, Jeff Van Humbeck

Negative Emissions Petroleum Systems

UCalgary Leads: Steven Bryant, Nader Mahinpey, George Shimizu, Hector De la Hoz Siegler, Joule Bergerson, Sean McCoy, Anne Benneker, Samira Siahrostami, Michelle Dolgos, Md. Golam Kibria

Advanced Electrochemical System for Energy Storage Through CO2 Conversion

UCalgary Lead: Viola Birss

Thermal Impacts for Geological Storage of CO2

UCalgary Lead: Don Lawton

Engineering and Developing Advanced Cathodes for Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Genetic Programming

UCalgary Lead: Venkataraman Thangadurai

Elucidating the Mechanistic CO2 reduction on the surface of the La0.3Ca0.7Fe1-xCrx perovskites

UCalgary Lead: Simon Trudel

Next Generation Fuel Cell and CO2 Separators based on Anion Exchange lonomers

UCalgary Lead: Kunal Karan

SYZYGY: Zero CO2 emission energy extraction from petroleum reservoirs

UCalgary Lead: Stephen Larter

Can Efficient, Cost Effective CO2  Reduction Catalysts be Developed? (Synthetic Fuels)

UCalgary Lead: Warren Piers

Can We Cost-Effectively Use Bioenergy for CO2 Conversion? (Bioenergy)

UCalgary Lead: Marc Strous

Advancing Solar Technology for Bioenergy And Electricity

UCalgary Lead: Marc Strous

GRINSTEM 3: Synergia Biotech Inc.

UCalgary Lead: Marc Strous

GRINSTEM 4: Momentum Materials Solutions Corp.

UCalgary Lead: Viola Birss

GRINSTEM 5: Lysis Logic Inc.

UCalgary Lead: Steve Larter

GRINSTEM 8: Superionics

UCalgary Lead: Venkataraman Thangadurai

GRINSTEM 9: Bee Energy Inc.

UCalgary Lead: Ted Roberts