Advances in CO2 Capture, Transport, Utilization, and Storage Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B3: Carbon Emission and Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2026 | Viewed by 965
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enhanced oil recovery; hydrogen generation; CCUS; pressure sensor; finite element analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global transition toward carbon neutrality is accelerating the development of technologies across the CO2 value chain—capture, transport, utilization, and storage (CTUS). Advances in capture and injectate specification are now tightly linked to transport networks and impurity-tolerant facilities. These developments also enable subsurface deployment for utilization (notably CO2-EOR) and permanent geological storage. Recent advances in thermodynamics and phase behavior of impure CO2 mixtures, multiphase flow, geochemical and geomechanical coupling, monitoring/verification, and large-scale simulation are reshaping how CTUS systems are designed and operated. Together, these developments indicate reliable and cost-effective pathways for managing CO2 at an industrial scale, while supporting energy security.
This Special Issue of Energies aims to showcase recent advances spanning CO2 capture, transport, utilization, and storage, with an emphasis on linking surface facilities to subsurface performance. We welcome contributions that integrate experiments, modeling/simulation, field pilots or demonstrations, and data-driven methods to optimize injectate quality, transport safety, sweep/conformance, storage capacity, and long-term containment. Submissions addressing impurity management, flow assurance, well and site integrity, MMV, and risk-informed decision frameworks are particularly encouraged. Additionally, techno-economic and policy/regulatory studies that connect specification choices and network architecture to cost, safety, and storage security are also welcome.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- CO2 capture and injection specification;
- Transport systems and hub/infrastructure design;
- Facility engineering and operational safety;
- Multiphase flow, phase behavior, and thermodynamics;
- Geochemical and geomechanical processes;
- Subsurface utilization (e.g., CO2-EOR) and geological storage practices;
- Reservoir characterization and MMV workflows;
- Multi-scale modeling and numerical simulation;
- Machine learning/AI and data-driven approaches;
- Uncertainty quantification, optimization, and decision support;
- Well and site integrity across the project lifecycle;
- Techno-economic and policy/regulatory studies.
Dr. Na Yuan
Dr. Bailian Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
- carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- reservoir simulation
- reactive transport
- monitoring and verification
- well integrity
- machine learning
- techno-economic analysis
- low-carbon energy systems
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