Speaker: Prof. Martin Trusler, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
Date: November 20, 2025, at 4 p.m.
Title: Understanding Physical Properties in the Context of CCUS and H2 Projects
Abstract:
The technologies of carbon capture and hydrogen production, along with transportation and storage processes, are set to contribute significantly in the ongoing energy transition. The tow principle actors in these processes, CO2 and H2, appear in combination with myriad other substances in complex combinations, the understanding of which is crucial to process design and operation. Physical properties of mixtures containing CO2 and/or H2 are crucial in this context. Phase behaviour and phase properties must be known under a wide range of operating conditions including both low and high temperatures and often also high pressures. This present significant challenges, for example in setting and meeting CO2 purity specifications for pipeline and shipping operations, in ensuring reliable fiscal metering of hydrogen, and in the quest for improved carbon capture solvents. The lecture will explore some of the physical property challenges currently facing the CCUS and H2 industries and present some of the research currently being carried out to address them.
CV Martin Trusler:
2001-date: Professor of Thermophysics, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
1995-2001: Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
1988-1995: Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
1985-1987: Ramsay Memorial Fellow, Chemistry Department, University College London
1984-1985: Lindemann Trust Fellow, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
1980-1984: PhD in Physical Chemistry, University College London, Thesis title: “The speed of sound in gases”
1977-1980: BSc with 1st class honours in Chemistry, University College London