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Carbon management

To achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, we must prevent almost all greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere and remove carbon dioxide from the air and oceans to compensate for emissions we cannot prevent. Our research projects are examining new technologies and scenarios for carbon management and the economics and scalability of these solutions.

Research

SESAME

Evaluating the impacts of the global energy system

Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER)

Manufacturing consumer products

A greener way to make raw materials

Renewable energy and carbon pricing policies

State-level adoption saves money and lives

Removing CO2 from power plant exhaust

Combining capture and disposal

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program

Formation of Isoporous Free Volume Elements Using UV Acidolysis Reactions

Electrochemical manufacturing of methanol from carbon dioxide feedstocks

Assessing climate impacts of energy technologies

A new accounting of methane’s role

Underground storage of carbon dioxide

Towards a safer, more effective sequestration process

Public Awareness of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Survey of Attitudes toward Climate Change Mitigation

The Hawaii Carbon Dioxide Ocean Sequestration Field Experiment: A Case Study in Public Perceptions and Institutional Effectiveness

Projects

CO2 migration along faults in carbon capture and sequestration projects: Field validation and stochastic modeling of fault properties

Developing models to understand opportunities and challenges for electrochemically-mediated carbon capture systems

Integrated CO2 capture with mists and conversion to high-value products

Electrochemically modulated mineralization of CO2 in ocean water

Erosion and deposition thresholds and rates within mangrove forests

Modeling and mitigation of CO2 migration along faults in carbon capture and sequestration projects

Inference and machine learning for geological carbon storage

What would be the costs and environmental impacts of recycling all plastic packaging generated in the United States?

Impact of hydrodynamics and landscape configuration on seagrass carbon storage

Assessment of carbon capture and sequestration in a climate mitigation portfolio: a focus on negative emission technologies and hydrogen

Electrochemically mediated CO2 capture

Electrochemical precipitation of brucite for carbon capture

Negative emissions technologies – a question of scale

Direct air capture of CO2 by electrochemical processes

Composite interfaces for CO2 conversion into dense energy carriers

Bubblephobic surfaces for enhancing biotemplated electrochemical catalysis

Taiwan’s Innovative Green Economy Roadmap (TIGER) project

Cost-performance analysis and benchmarking of CO2 capture systems for hard-to-abate industries

Publications

Interfacial electrolyte effects on aqueous CO2 reduction: Learning from enzymes to develop inorganic approaches

Leaching characteristics of biomass ash-based binder in neutral and acidic media

Electric-gas infrastructure planning for deep decarbonization of energy systems

Related news

The promises and pitfalls of geoengineering

American Museum of Natural History

MITEI Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog discussed the challenges and benefits of carbon capture and storage during this year’s Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, where panelists discussed geoengineering—a controversial approach to addressing climate change that some believe worth exploring.
MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center starts 10 new projects to accelerate decarbonization efforts

The selected projects will address data center expansion, building sector decarbonization, climate-resilient power systems, and more.

Two absorber units at Climeworks' direct air capture and storage plant, Orca. Technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air: A reality check

MIT study finds that many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” technology and therefore may not bring about the promised reduction in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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MIT Energy Initiative
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Department of Chemistry
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Sloan School of Management
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MIT Energy Initiative
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Sloan School of Management