CO capture and storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation strategy aimed at reducing the amount of CO vented into the atmosphere by capturing CO emissions from industrial sources, transporting the CO via a dedicated pipeline network, and injecting it into geologic reservoirs. Designing CCS...

The two major pathways for energy utilization from biomass are conversion to a liquid fuel (<i>i.e.</i>, biofuels) or conversion to electricity (<i>i.e.</i>, biopower). In the United States (US), biomass policy has focused on biofuels. However, this paper will investigate three options for biopower: low...

Western Canada is endowed with considerable reserves of deep un-mineable coal, which can be converted to syngas by means of a gasification process called underground coal gasification (UCG). The syngas can be transformed into hydrogen (H2) through commercially available technologies employed in...

Underground Coal Gasification is the conversion of solid Coal to gas in-situ by heating the coal and injecting oxidants air/oxygen to cause the gasification by partial combustion instead of complete combustion of coal. UCG is the promising technology having a lot of health, safety and...