Carbon Management Canadaan update.
Richard Adamson
(Managing Director)
Steve Larter
(Scientific Director)
Changing How Canada Innovates

• May 17 th to 20 th
• Westin Hotel
• Keynote Speaker –
Brian Launder,
Manchester University
• Theme leaders talks
• Workshops
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• 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
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Carbon Management Canada
A 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

NCE
Secretariat
Advisory
Board of Directors
Advisory
Administrative Team
Membership
Research Team
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• 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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• 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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st
33%
4%
7%
CMC Funding: $45.06M (Aug 24, 2009)
56% NCE Request ($25 million)
Provincial (AB)
Industry
Federal (non-NCE)
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2.0%
3.0%
13%
2.4% 1.2%
10%
44%
25%
Salaries and Stipends
Operation of Core Facilities
Equipment
Materials and Supplies
Computing (No cash costs)
Travel Expenses
Administrative Centre
Management and Networking
All Other Costs (Contingency)
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• 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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• 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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CMC Website:
• Live in January
• Features CMC & industry news
• Researchers can post news, jobs, blogs, photos and more
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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.
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.
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• 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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Research Team
Submit
RMX Prelim Review
NCE Monitor process
International Review
Admin Process
RMC Prioritize & Recommend
Board Approve
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• 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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• 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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• Common sense and policy enablement
• Increased efficiency
• Nuclear
• Solar thermal
• Solar PV
• Wind/ tidal energy
• Nth generation (algal) biofuels
• Carbon Dioxide Reduction Geoengineering
(air capture, accelerated rock weathering)
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Canadian Energy sector and Universities punching way below their weight!
Ottawa/Gatineau
London ON
Vancouver
Kitchener
Saskatoon
Calgary
Halifax
Edmonton
Toronto
Quebec/Hamilton
/Windsor
Victoria
Montreal http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/flash/innovation_clusters/
Silicon Valley
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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
Nationally:
• 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

• 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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• 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(
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• 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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• 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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CMC Research in a Nutshell
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
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• Dr. Steve Larter (ex officio)
Scientific Director
Carbon Management Canada
• Richard Adamson
Managing Director
Carbon Management Canada
• Dr. Marc D’Iorio
Director General
Office of Energy Research and
Development, NRCan
• Dr. John Grace, Professor
University of British Columbia
• Dr. Don Lawton, Professor
University of Calgary
• Mike Scribner
Manager, Technology and Optimization,
Oil Sands
ConocoPhillips Canada
• Dr. Bernhard Mayer, Professor
University of Calgary
• Dr. James Meadowcroft, Professor
Carleton University
• Dr. Andrew Pollard, Professor and
Queens Research Chair
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Queens University
• Dr. Nancy Olewiler, Professor
Simon Fraser University
• Jim Rowley
Independent
• Dr. John Shaw, Professor
University of Alberta
• Dr. John Zhou
Executive Director, Environmental
Technologies
Alberta 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

• 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

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– 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

http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/
Theme A - Recovery, Processing and Capture
• Fluidized bed gasification of low-grade coals and petcoke
• Integrated gasification and looping
CO
2 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 CO under anaerobic (subsurface) conditions
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• A pore scale microlab to perform fundamental laboratory-based studies of CO
2 transport and reactivity in reservoirs
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http://www.cmc-nce.ca/projects/
Theme C - Secure Carbon
Storage
Theme D – Accelerating
Appropriate Deployment
• Storage geochemistry MMV
• Assessing the potential of low carbon fossil-fuel/derived technologies: A life cycle environmental and technoeconomic evaluation of the oil sands
• Adapting Probabilistic Seismic Hazard
Assessment methods to site evaluation for carbon capture and storage • Governance Innovation and the
Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
• Storage geophysics and monitoring
• Seismic behaviour of CO and modelling
2 saturated sandstones: laboratory measurements
• National and international legal and regulatory framework for carbon management
• Carbon mineralization in mine waste
• CO
2 for CCS from fuel cells
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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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Theme C - Secure Carbon
Storage
• Distributed all-optical CO2 sensing for field-scale subsurface carbon management
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 • Innovative approach to microseismic monitoring of underground CO2 injection: Seismic interferometry and ultralow frequency deformations events
• Removing Barriers and Cultivating Enablers to Innovation in Canada's Oil Sands and
Heavy Oil Industry
• Storage Geomechanics and Reservoir
Modelling
• Understanding Barriers to Low-Carbon Tech.
Investments in Oil and Gas Industry
• Integrated Gravimetric and Geodetic
Monitoring of Geological CO2 storage
• Risk Assessment and Mgmt. of CCS in a
Canadian Context
• Secure storage of impure CO2 in the form of solid hydrate in depleted gas pools in Northern Alberta
• Comparative Life Cycle
Assessment of Three
Technologies
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Cross cutting/Emerging Themes
• N
• S
• I
• C
• B
• E
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Novel capture technologies
5 projects
Advanced gasification
Biological insitu gasification
5 projects
Communicating and assessing risk and uncertainty 4 projects
Enabling change in policy and behaviour
9 projects
Carbon neutral fossil fuels
1 projects
Enabling innovation and innovating
Defragment the research enterprise 2
More Efficient
Oil and gas recovery and processing
2 projects
Carbon storage systematics and
CDR innovative sensing
Geoengineering 10 projects
2 projects
Technology import
Biology 2; Sensors 2 ;
Warp drive
Gamechangers
Nanotechnology 3;
Electrochemistry 2
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Cross cutting/Emerging Themes
• N
• S
• I
• C
• B
• E
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Date Leader Title
February 2010 John Grace
June 2010 John Shaw
September
2010
September
2010
April 2011
Harrie
Vredenburg
James
Meadowcroft
Wayne Patton
& Richard
Adamson
Gasification and CO2 Capture (Saskatoon)
Insitu refining workshop
Innovation Workshop
Risk, Uncertainty and Carbon Storage workshop
Carbon Management Canada Inc. and CCS
Demonstration Projects in Canada
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Many accelerating technology areas
Biology, nanotechnology, AI, internet science
Key:rapid protoyping
High idea volume
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H/C=0.8
H/C=4.0
Emissions_Ratio 0.8 4 )
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2.077
Emissions_Ratio 1.5 4 )
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1.841
CO2 emitted on a natural gas basis
Coal and Bitumen
H2
Modified after Kulcinski 2005
Sequence of desire: Coal;Bitumen; Oil; Methane; Hydrogen
While gas and oil prices are disconnected carbon prices would resolve that quickly

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
(Adams et al., 2009)
Response to nutrients and
CO
2
+H
2 (Gray et al., 2009)
Methanogens in Oil Fields

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 CO
2 completed in the fall of 2010.
storage simulation research
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 network
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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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• 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 new programs from here on in?
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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.
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