CMS’s Impact – Driven Collaboration Model Addressing Industrial GHGs, Richard Adamson (Managing Director, Carbon Management Canada) UK/Norway/Canada Meeting 18/19 March 2015

1. New pathways
to reduce
industrial
greenhouse
gas
emissions.

2. Why?
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3. WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Atmospheric carbon is a global challenge.
Climate consequences will affect everyone.
As priority escalates world-wide, reducing industrial emissions intensity will be
decisive for access and competitiveness in the market.
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4. Who?
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5. WHO IS CMC?
• Neutral, independent, Canadian, federally incorporated not-for-profit
– Not government - no policy conflicts
– Not industry - no commercial/IP interest
• Single mission: elimination of industrial greenhouse gas emissions
– Accelerate innovation through integration, adaptation, application development, pilot
testing, performance verification …
– Leverage point: rapid & cost-effective reduction of uncertainty
to enable earlier decision making
• Not an advocate – provide science-based options,
let others (“society”) decide
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6. IDEAS TO IMPACT
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7. CMC takes technology from insights and concepts
to pilot-scale projects and field verification.
Adaptation, integration, translation, validation,
application development …
It’s R&D, with a heavy focus on the ‘D’.
Our adaptable, agile, “semi-virtual” business model allows us to activate
quickly and cast a wide net for available resources.
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8. INNOVATION FUNNEL
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9. IF YOU WANT TO GO FAST, GO ALONE.
IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER.
Working together, CMC will bring global
capacity to help our clients go fast AND far.
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10. INNOVATIVE
ELEMENTS
+
PROVEN
SYSTEMS
INDUSTRIAL
SOLUTIONS
CMC has built a network of the best
and brightest Canadian and
international researchers and partners.
This growing network is drawn from
engineering, geoscience,
nanotechnology, genetics, biology,
chemistry, business, policy and
economics.
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11. 44 RESEARCH PROJECTS
=
$22M
Legacy Research Portfolio:
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13. THE
NEW
PATH
FORWARD
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CMC STRUCTURE

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• Develop and validate performance of measurement, monitoring and
detection technologies for location & movement of subsurface fluids
• Develop geological CO2 & energy storage technologies
CONTAINMENT & MONITORING
INSTITUTE (CMC.CaMI)

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RESEARCH
• Don Lawton, Inst. Director
– ID has overall responsibility
– U of Calgary is Academic Host
Institution
– Collaborative research team is
CREWES & others (G360 etc.)
– Develop & validate:
• Instrumentation & methods
• Energy & CO2 storage
technologies
• Risk assessment, evaluation
& mitigation methods
DEVELOPMENT
• Kirk Osadetz, Technical Programs
Director
– Development of field scale
projects
– Scale-up & field testing programs
– Collaborations w. equipment
developers & service co’s
– Links to global development sites
& collaborators
CMC.CaMI ROLES

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CMC.CaMI KEY RELATIONSHIPS

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• First well “spudded” 2015-02-26
• ¾ section of land
– Surface
– Subsurface to 750m+
• Injection zones
– 300m, 550m
• Monitoring
– Shallow aquifer
– Surface
– Injection zones
FIELD RESEARCH STATION
NEWELL COUNTRY

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CARBON CAPTURE/CONVERSION
INSTITUTE (CMC.CCCI)
• Develop, integrate, adapt, pilot and scale-up industrial process technologies
for GHG emissions mitigation
• Reduce cost of CO2 capture and convert to beneficial products
• Work with domestic & global researchers to convert bench/batch to
continuous processes

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CMC.CCCI ROLES
RESEARCH
• Sr. Research Director & Chair
in CCCI @ UBC
– Dr. Naoko Ellis (Acting)
– UBC is Academic Host
institution
– Develop & integrate early
stage technologies
– Prove at bench-scale
continuous
DEVELOPMENT
• Technology Commercialization &
Innovation Centre (TCIC)
– Inst. Director TBD
– Collaborative test & development
centre
– Linked to other test centres
(Canada/global)

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CMC.CCCI KEY RELATIONSHIPS

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ACCELERATING INNOVATION

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LOW CARBON PATHWAYS
GROUP (CMC.LCPG)
• Techno-economic modelling & scenarios development for policy,
regulatory & pathways development
• Targeting “deep decarbonization” pathways in Canada in globally
decarbonizing context
• Identification of potential trends and economic opportunities
associated with a climate-change-responsive world

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CMC.LCPG ROLES
RESEARCH
• Sr. Research Director (Acting)
– Dr. James Meadowcroft
– Carleton U is Academic
Host institution
(provisional)
DEVELOPMENT
• Development Director
– Dave Sawyer
• Deep Decarbonization Pathways
Project
– 16 countries
– UN-SDSN led
– Reporting to COP21
• Lead contractor
– Navius Research

25. REGIONAL ENERGY MAPPING
PROGRAM
• Regional
value
for
redeploying
waste
heat
• Mapping
quality
&
quanBty
• Building
trust
amongst
industrial
partners
to
anonymize
&
share
data
• Alberta’s
Industrial
Heartland
– 16
key
companies
– 300
MW
sensible
heat
– 1/3
economically
recoverable
– Est.
151,000
tonnes
CO2/
year
reducBon
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26. EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
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• Low Carbon Innovation Alliance (LCIA)
– AI-EES, AI-TF, CCEMC, CMC, COSIA, NRCan, SDTC
• COSIA
– Associate Member
• International outreach
– US: NETL (LBNL), Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Stanford Center for
Carbon Storage, U Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research, etc.
– UK: UK CCSRC, SCCS, BGS
– Australia: CO2CRC
– Korea: KCRC

27. WHAT CAN CMC DO FOR
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS?
• Connect promising research programs to Canadian industrial users &
commercial interests
• Connect promising Canadian industry needs or research programs to
international initiatives
• Coordinate collaborative research programs between academic &
government
• Convene & manage consortium-based projects/ proposals up to &
including pilot projects
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28. ONGOING ACTIVITIES
• Canada/UK/Norway meetings
• Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project
• Shallow CO2 storage (Northern Alberta)
• Compressed air geological energy storage (“Katabasis”)
• Net-zero emissions power for Northern development
• Field testing at CMC.CaMI FRS#1
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29. THE
LOW CARBON FUTURE
STARTS NOW.
We envision a leading global collaborative
network developing solutions to industrial GHG
emissions.
We anticipate industries known
for innovative low-carbon technologies.
We foresee low net carbon footprint products
welcomed in a carbon constrained world.
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30. CO2LLABORATION
Contact:
Richard Adamson, PEng MSc
President
Richard.Adamson@cmcghg.com
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