MEB426 Tackling the Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage as a Silver Bullet?

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Šárka Benedová (lecturer)
Olav Bolland (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jan Osička, Ph.D. (deputy)
Susan Hovorka (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jan Osička, Ph.D. (deputy)
doc. Mgr. Jan Osička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Veronika Velička Zapletalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Břetislav Dančák, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 45 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/45, only registered: 0/45, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/45
Course objectives
The course provides an insight into the very basics of geological, regulatory, economic, and social aspects of the carbon capture and storage technology (CCS). CCS is considered as an important tool in decreasing global carbon dioxide emmissions, thus capable of reducing the humankind's impact on the climate change. The success individual CCS projects is derived from suitable geological conditions, favourable regulatory framework that would contribute to their economic viability, and public support on the nation as well as local level.

The course is opened to all Masaryk University students. In an accessible way, the course will provide the students with an overview of the key dimensions of CCS.

The lectures will be held by members of the Masaryk University Center for Energy Studies, a joint research team of the Faculty of Social Studies and Faculty of Sciences. These lectures will be held in Czech.

The course will also feature lectures by Ollav Boland, the Head of Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/olav.bolland); and Susan Hovorka, Senior Research Scientist,Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (http://www.beg.utexas.edu/personnel_ext.php?id=42)
Syllabus
  • I. Introduction to carbon capture and storage (CCS) - Šárka Benedová
  • II. CCS in the European energy policy - Veronika Zapletalová
  • III. CCS and the local communities - Jan Osička
  • IV. Norwegian experience with CCS - Olav Bolland
  • V. American experience with CCS - Susan Hovorka
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussions.
Assessment methods
The students are expected to visit all course lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jaro 2015, podzim 2015, jaro 2016.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: celkem 5 přednášek.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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