Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology

Overview

Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology is a new online-only scientific journal dedicated to the management of greenhouse gases. The journal will focus on methods for carbon capture and storage (CCS), as well as utilization of carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a feedstock for fuels and chemicals. GHG will also provide insight into strategies to mitigate emissions of other greenhouse gases. Significant advances will be explored in critical reviews, commentary articles and short communications of broad interest. In addition, the journal will offer analyses of relevant economic and political issues, industry developments and case studies.

Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology is an exciting new online-only journal published as a co-operative venture of the SCI (Society of Chemical Industry) and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Aims and Scope

Key themes:

Carbon dioxide capture

• Pre-combustion capture
• Post-combustion capture
• Oxyfuel
• Industrial processes
• Solvents, sorbents and membranes
• Chemical-looping combustion
• Cryogenic separation
• Direct air capture
• Integration with other processes in the power plant

Carbon dioxide storage

• Wellbore integrity
• Leakage pathways, e.g. faults and fractures
• Capacity assessment, e.g.saline formations, depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Caprock seals
• Impact of CO₂ storage (groundwater, microseismicity)
• Onshore and offshore geologic storage
• Technical performance and risk assessment
• Longterm fate of injected CO₂
• Trapping mechanisms, including adsorption, e.g. coal beds and shales
• Monitoring, verification and accounting (MVA, e.g. seismic, surface, hydrologic, remote sensing)
• Pressure management
• Impacts of co-contaminants, CO₂ purity specifications

Carbon dioxide transportation

• Pressurisation of CO₂ storage
• Pipeline technology, including materials, compressors and infrastructure
• Ships
• Risk, legal and monitoring, leakage
• CO₂ purity specifications
• Source-sink evaluations

CO₂ Utilisation

• Catalysis for CO₂ conversion
• Production of fuels and chemicals from CO₂
• Novel cement production methods
• Mineral carbonation for the production of aggregate or useful materials
• Enhanced hydrocarbon recovery (including enhanced oil recovery; EOR)
• Use of CO₂ as cushion (or base) gas for gas storage

Other greenhouse gases

• Sources and mitigation strategies for emissions of methane (CH₄), Nitrous oxide (N₂O), Halocarbons

Regulation, economics and planning

• Cost aspects
• Other CO₂ emission mitigation strategies (including land use change and terrestrial carbon sequestration)
• CO₂ emission and climate modelling
• Public acceptance
• Life cycle analyses
• Policy initiatives
• Pilot and demonstration projects
• Advanced power plant designs
• Technoeconomic analyses
• Economic analyses of the energy sector
• Greenhouse gas mitigation in different countries or geographical regions

General topics

• Business digest
• Patent intelligence and intellectual property issues
• Supply chain issues
• International carbon trading schemes
• Industrial and government developments including technology, financial and funding company formation, mergers and acquisitions, development of new coal and natural gas-fired power plants
• Regional updates
• Development of pilot and demonstration CCS projects
• Development of new commercial applications of CO₂
• Putting the science in context: economics, politics/policy and social science issues linked to CCS and CO₂ utilisation, including public perception.
  
• Greenhouse gas mitigation in different countries or geographical regions

Readership

Research Scientists, Engineers and Managers in the energy/power industry.
Research Scientists and Engineers at Universities and Research Institutes.
Chemical Engineers, Chemists, Separation Scientists, Geochemists, Geophysicists, Geologists, Environmental Scientists, Scientists working in agriculture/agronomy/forestry, Policy Makers in Government, Civil Engineers, and Non-Government Organisations.

Keywords

Greenhouse gases, GHG, carbon dioxide, CO₂, methane, emissions, mitigation, climate change, nitrous oxides, carbon capture and storage, CCS, power plant, CO₂ conversion, CO₂ utilization, geological storage, geological sequestration, halocarbons, CO₂ transportation, oxyfuel, pre-combustion capture, post-combustion capture, chemical-looping combustion, direct air capture, wellbore integrity, mineral carbonation, enhanced oil recovery, EOR, technoeconomic analysis, policy, CO₂ leakage, demonstration projects

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest)
• CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS)
• Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Composites Industry Abstracts (ProQuest)
• CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest)
• CSA Engineering Research Database (ProQuest)
• CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX (ProQuest)
• CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest)
• CSA Sustainability Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
• CSA Technology Research Database (ProQuest)
• Current Contents: Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (Thomson Reuters)
• Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Thomson Reuters)
• Engineered Materials Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Environment Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (OCLC)
• GeoRef (AGI)
• INSPEC (IET)
• Materials Business File (ProQuest)
• Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters)
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)
• Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)