A feasible future for CO2 removal

Reducing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will be one of the major challenges of the century. Professor Realff works on understanding the feasibility of implementing systems to remove CO2 from different sources, such as flue gas streams and directly from air, and designing systems to do this as efficiently as possible.

This is a multi-scale design problem that integrates information from materials design, novel contactor architectures, adsorption cycle design and overall process configuration.

These design problems lead to complex modeling challenges and require handling uncertainty seamlessly across scales.