Advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS)
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CCUS; CO2/H2 transport modeling; energy transition; optimization; machine learning
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Interests: deep learning; geological carbon storage; reservoir simulation; digital rock physics; lattice Boltzmann methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) provides a practical route to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions across the power, industrial, and energy-intensive sectors. Because CCUS spans an end-to-end value chain—from separating CO2 at the source to its transport, conversion, and secure geological storage—it calls for coordinated progress in science, engineering, and policy.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and authoritative reviews that advance research on any aspect of the CCUS value chain. We invite authors to submit papers spanning the entire chain—including experimental, modeling, and pilot studies; techno-economic assessments; field demonstrations; policy or regulatory analyses; and integrated process designs. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- CO2 capture: novel solvents, sorbents, membranes, and intensified processes;
- CO2 transport: network planning, pipeline integrity, and infrastructure optimization;
- CO2 utilization: chemical conversion, mineralization, and other value-adding pathways;
- CO2-based enhanced oil recovery: experiments on and simulations of CO2-EOR processes, filed implementation and monitoring, CO2-EOR, and carbon storage synergies;
- Subsurface storage: formation characterization, injection strategies, caprock integrity, and risk assessment;
- Simulation and optimization of CCUS hubs, clusters, and full-value-chain deployments;
- Machine learning and data analytics applications across carbon capture, transport, utilization, and storage;
- Risk, safety, and lifecycle assessments for CCUS projects;
- Techno-economic and policy frameworks enabling large-scale CCUS project implementation.
Our goal is to assemble a collection of papers presenting cutting-edge insights that will accelerate CCUS projects and broaden their contribution to global decarbonization. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Martin Ma
Dr. Hongsheng Wang
Dr. Tao Bai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CCUS
- CO2 storage/sequestration
- CO2 transport
- CO2 capture
- modeling
- machine learning
- risk assessment
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