Sustainable Future of Coal in Carbon Constrained World

主講人 : Prof. Rajender Gupta

Coal is the most abundant and widely distributed energy resource and is responsible for more the 40% global electricity production. In past say before 1950 there were no environmental concerns. However, after industrialization, issues of NOx, SOx and particulate matter along with trace elements started causing global environmental problem. After historical meeting at Kyoto in 1997 on global warming and climate changes, greenhouse gas emissions took the centre-stage. By this time the technologies for control and mitigation of the abovementioned emissions were well developed and well deployed at least in most of the countries. A number of projections were made to replace coal fired power plants by renewables. There were increased emphasis and subsidies on renewable resources. However, the increased demand of power was much more than the net output from renewables. Global warming and accelerated climate changes started forcing the deployment of CCUS technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. And coal use for power generation being a point source, capture and storage from coal fired power stations became an easy place for CCS deployment apart from gas fields. These technologies become essentials for the sustainable future of coal.

主講人簡(jiǎn)介：

Rajender Gupta is currently a Professor Emeritus in the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada. He was one of the founding member for establishing the Canadian Centre for Clean Coal and Carbon and Mineral processing Technology at the University of Alberta, where he led the Clean Coal Technology theme. He also participated in developing the University of Alberta-Tsinghua University collaboration in Clean Coal Technology.

Prior to joining the University of Alberta, he was leading several research projects on Coal combustion, ash formation, advanced coal characterization, oxy-firing from 1987-2006 in collaboration with IHI Japan. In the long span of more than 35-40 years of coal related research, he has made more than 200 presentations in national and international conferences and more than 180 research papers in international journals on almost all aspects of coal research.