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UAB School of Engineering grant for research on technology that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions also will fund training for students in the capture and permanent safe storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) A new advanced course on coal combustion and gasification, climate change and carbon sequestration also will be added to the curriculum.
UAB will help identify geological formations that are best and safest for the sequestration of CO2 deep underground in collaboration with Southern Company. "Southern Company's involvement enables our students and research team access to crucial industry resources, operations and information," said engineering Professor Peter Walsh, Ph.D.
The Wall Street Journal recently named CO2 capture and storage recently was named one of Five Technologies That Could Change Everything.
"We hope to generate interest in carbon-capture and storage technologies and eventually develop employees who will design, build and operate the equipment," said Richard Esposito, a Southern Company principal geologist and a Ph.D. candidate in the UAB School of Engineering.
"This technology is something that all fossil-fuel-based energy providers potentially will be required to deploy by 2020 in an effort to comply with proposed carbon legislation. Southern Company and other utilities will need a well-trained workforce to commercially deploy the technology, and the partnership with UAB will help get us there," Esposito said.
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