IUCRC Planning Grant, Pennsylvania State University: Center for CO2 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction Technologies (CO2-SMART)

地质二氧化碳封存是一项具有巨大经济影响的关键技术，可以使全球能源行业履行其环境、治理和社会责任。它还将有助于应对气候变化挑战，同时向可再生能源过渡。二氧化碳封存对经济的影响之大是前所未有的，联邦政府、能源和其他工业部门对此表示强烈支持。美国国家科学基金会产学研合作研究中心（IUCRC）的规划拨款结合了南加州大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的专业知识、人才和基础设施，创建了一个2站点的IUCRC。这一大学联合将地球科学家、数据科学家、工程师、教育工作者和行业利益相关者聚集在一起，共同创建一个多方赞助的研究项目，旨在加速新技术的开发、适应和部署，以改进地下二氧化碳封存的建模、连续监测、成像、分析、风险评估和缓解。这项活动的更广泛影响将是开展协同活动，解决私营部门在碳封存方面的最高优先事项，帮助它们克服阻碍它们提供新的和改进的产品和服务的障碍。本次会议产生的任何中心的主要贡献都将是碳封存方面的劳动力培训，以及向当地小学教师和学校进行公共宣传。宾夕法尼亚州立大学在IUCRC计划中的作用是整合地球物理/地球化学技术和数据科学算法的进步，以改进储层和盖层对二氧化碳响应的表征。它还将调查有效的能源经济学和政策，提出公司可以随时采用的最佳做法，以确保未来GCS项目的经济成功。宾夕法尼亚州立大学现场的具体研究领域包括：从实验室到现场的实时地震监测，密闭孔隙空间中二氧化碳-流体-岩石相互作用和传输动力学，以及二氧化碳诱导渗透率演化的流体渗透率/孔隙度成像。它还将应用机器学习支持的多物理场建模来升级和数据同化，并确定地质二氧化碳储存的经济驱动因素。宾夕法尼亚州立大学的劳动力培训工作将是制定一个多样化和包容性的教育和推广计划，以培训下一代工程师和科学家，培养具有基本技能的技术劳动力，以成功部署和操作长期地质二氧化碳封存项目。宾夕法尼亚州立大学将从福特谷州立大学（Fort Valley State University）和林肯大学（Lincoln University）招收学生，这两所历史上都是黑人的学院和大学，为碳封存工作带来不同的视角。额外的拓展将包括为宾夕法尼亚州中心县的四年级学生提供实地考察，参观宾夕法尼亚州立大学的矿物博物馆。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Geologic CO2 storage is a critical technology with enormous economic impact that can enable the global energy industry to meet their environmental, governance, and societal responsibilities. It will also help address climate change challenges while transitioning to renewable sources of energy. The magnitude of the economic impact of CO2 sequestration is unprecedented and there is strong buy-in from the federal government and the energy and other industrial sectors. This National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) planning grant combines the expertise and power of talent and infrastructure of the University of Southern California and the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to create a 2-Site IUCRC. This combination of universities brings together geoscientists, data scientists, engineers, educators, and industry stakeholders to create a multi-sponsored research program designed to accelerate the development, adaptation, and deployment of novel technologies for improved modeling, continuous monitoring, imaging, analytics and risk assessment and mitigation for subsurface CO2 sequestration. Broader impacts of the activity will be to develop synergistic activities that address the highest priorities of the private sector in carbon sequestration to help them overcome hurdles preventing them from offering new and improved products and services. A major contribution of any Center that comes from this meeting will be workforce training in carbon sequestration and public outreach to local primary teachers and schools. The role of the Penn State Site in the planned IUCRC is to integrate advances in geophysics/geochemical technologies and data science algorithms to improve characterization of reservoir and caprock response to CO2. It will also investigate effective energy economics and policies to propose best-practices that companies can readily adopt to ensure the economic success of future GCS projects. The specific research areas to the Penn State Site include: real-time seismic monitoring from the lab to the field, CO2-fluid-rock interactions and transport dynamics in confined pore spaces, and fluid permeability/porosity imaging of CO2–induced permeability evolution. It will also apply Machine Learning enabled multi-physics modeling to upscaling and data assimilation and determine economic drivers for Geologic CO2 Storage. Penn State workforce training efforts will be to develop a diverse and inclusive educational and outreach program for training the next generation of engineers and scientists to generate a technical workforce with essential skillsets to successfully deploy and operate long-term geologic CO2 sequestration projects. Penn State will recruit students from Fort Valley State University and Lincoln University, two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to bring diverse perspectives into the carbon sequestration workforce. Additional outreach will include providing field trips for fourth graders in Centre County, PA to the Minerals Museum at Penn State.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.