New Advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B3: Carbon Emission and Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 1301
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Dear Colleagues,
It is difficult to envision a low‑carbon future without effective carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies. These approaches have been rapidly expanding, not only in traditional industrial and energy sectors but also in newer domains such as unconventional resource recovery, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), advanced drilling and completion techniques, and integrated CO2 transportation and sequestration systems. The increasing deployment of CCUS has driven significant progress in understanding CO2’s interactions with subsurface rocks and fluids, CO2 migration pathways and trapping mechanisms, and innovations in the utilization of CO2 as a working fluid in drilling, completion, and production operations.
On the other hand, the growing demand for safe, efficient, and economically viable CCUS solutions has accelerated research into multiphase flow modeling, reactive transport processes, geochemical and geomechanical coupling, and large‑scale monitoring of storage integrity. These advances are critical for ensuring the secure geological sequestration of CO2, minimizing environmental risks, and optimizing the integration of CO2‑based technologies into energy production and industrial supply chains.
This Special Issue, New Advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), aims to highlight the latest developments in research on the mechanisms, modeling, applications, monitoring, and safety protocols across the full CCUS value chain.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- CO2–rock–fluid interaction mechanisms in various geological formations;
- Migration and trapping processes in saline aquifers, depleted reservoirs, and unconventional formations;
- CO2 applications in drilling engineering for wellbore stability, cooling, and fluid management;
- Use of CO2 in completion operations for enhanced zonal isolation and stimulation;
- CO2‑EOR processes and integrated storage strategies;
- CO2 utilization for unconventional resource recovery (tight oil, shale gas, coalbed methane);
- Principles and innovations in CO2 gathering, transportation, and injection systems;
- Safety and integrity monitoring for long‑term geological sequestration;
- Coupled reactive transport and geomechanical modeling approaches;
- Novel diagnostic and sensing technologies for CCUS operations.
Dr. Daoyi Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbon capture
- carbon utilization
- carbon storage
- CO2 interactions
- CO2 flooding
- enhanced oil recovery
- unconventional resources
- CO2 conformance control
- CO2 transportation
- geological sequestration
- monitoring and safety
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