Our current research includes Risk & Safety of Hydrogen Production, Storage & Transport and Carbon Capture / Direct Air Capture (DAC).
Belmore Energy Believes that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plays an important role towards the net-zero goal.
Our research focuses on carbon capture using different low-cost adsorbents.
A System Dynamics Framework for the risk analysis and management of Hydrogen Production, Storage and Transportation Chain
Hydrogen can be part of the energy mix of clean energy. Hydrogen production, Storage, and Transport (HPST) is a novel technology for mitigating the impacts of climate change. The uncertainties concerning the safety, risk, and reliability of HPST technology give rise to a significant obstacle to its acceptance. Since HPST is a complex sociotechnical system, traditional risk assessment approaches are not appropriate and do not reveal the totality of the risk of an interconnected system. Lessons learned from industrial accidents show that a combination of technical, organizational, and human aspects of risk results in the occurrence of accidents. Therefore, we intend to develop an integrated risk analysis framework for the HPST chain using the system Dynamics framework. System dynamics is a framework to gain insight into risk management and allows understanding of the interactions of the HPST system’s elements in the first and then study the behaviour of the system over time both during the normal operation as well as failure or deviation from the normal operation (system upset).
Another research project is on DAC. Direct Air Capture is a technology that removes CO2 from atmosphere which has been produced by fossil oil. The DAC unit with high-powered fans sucks the air and through chemical reaction, the CO2 is separated and injected underground as a permanent storage.
Collaboration with the Department of Chemical Engineering at Brunel University London:
Belmore Energy has an active collaboration with the Department of Chemical Engineering at Brunel University London in the following areas:
Valorisation of waste biomass residue in the synthesis of adsorbents for carbon capture
Valorisation of plastic char produced by microwave technology
Valorisation of End of Life Tyres (ELT) char produced by microwave technology
Conduction of performance evaluation of the synthesised sorbents in carbon capture via thermogravimetric methods
Characterisation of solid sorbents used in carbon capture