Project description
Sustainably exploiting European shale gas reserves
Europe has enough shale gas (unconventional natural gas) to potentially fulfil 50 % of its energy needs over the next few decades. However, current shale gas extraction techniques of hydraulic fracturing involve excessive amounts of water and risk of underground and surface water contamination that impact local ecosystems and public health. In order to sustainably exploit this valuable resource, the EU-funded CLEAN project aims to advance this technique of carbon fracturing and storage that greatly reduces water consumption and limits underground pollution. It will also include a resilience monitoring system to ensure optimal levels of environmental control. The project will contribute to carbon reduction and enable Europe to tap into its natural energy resources more safely.
Objective
As the EU pushes ahead with its energy and climate agenda, it will need a broad range of cleaner energy sources including natural gas, if it is to retain its leading position in emission reductions in a carbon constrained world. Europe has enough gas to meet around half of its own demand for another 25 years. The public concerns of geological disaster, underground pollution, contaminated water and damage to ecosystems are the major obstacles to the shale gas revolution in Europe. Therefore, this fellowship aims to relieve the energy security and carbon emission issues in Europe by introducing a new environmental-friendly technique for shale gas exploitation combined with carbon storage process, named as pure CO2 Fracturing and Storage in Shale technique, from the fundamental science of hybrid engineering. The direct impact from this new technique estimated as for a single typical shale gas well, 30000 tons of fresh water will be saved and 150 tons of underground polluting chemicals will be prevented and a minimum of 15000 tons of CO2 will be embedded. Furthermore, a toolkit and platform to enable the integration of resiliency-improving monitoring and forecasting wellbore infrastructure will developed by combining traditional laboratory and field studies, data mining, machine learning, uncertainty quantification and reliability-based design so to utilize the data to its full potential.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy natural gas
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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