Fundamental of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

By Prof. Archana | IIT(ISM) Dhanbad

Learners enrolled: 1553 | Exam registration: 540

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The carbon capture, utilization and storage course are very much important for engineering students belongs to petroleum engineers, Chemical, Fuel and even the course is important for general engineering students belongs to others specialization as well. The course is designed to cover the topics starting with necessities of CCUS, proceeding further with capturing the CO₂ from different available techniques, different options of geological sequestration of CO₂, utilizing the CO₂ in enhancing the oil and gas production, and Modeling and cost estimation of CCUS project.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: BTech, MTech, PhD

PREREQUISITES: Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline would be preferrable

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: ONGC, OIL, ESSAR, IOCL, CAIRN, GAIL

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Chemical Engineering Energy and Environment
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	19 Jan 2026
End Date :	10 Apr 2026
Enrollment Ends :	02 Feb 2026
Exam Registration Ends :	20 Feb 2026
Exam Date :	25 Apr 2026 IST
NCrF Level	4.5 — 8.0

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1:
a. Overview of existing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions issues
b. Global carbon cycle & Life Cycle Analysis, with emphasis on GHG emissions, CCS, and CCUS options

Week 2:
a. Introduction & Necessity of CCS: global emissions, climate change, evidence of climate change
b. Concept of carbon trading
c. Concept of carbon credit and carbon footprint.

Week 3: Introduction to carbon storage and different sequestration (CCUS):
a. Biological carbon sequestration
i. Forests and woodlands biological carbon sequestration
ii. Soil biological carbon sequestration
iii. Ocean Biological carbon sequestration
b. Geological carbon sequestration
c. Technological Carbon Sequestration
d. Industrial Carbon Sequestration

Week 4:
a. Concept of Carbon Intensity
b. Carbon neutral vs net zero emission
c. Carbon capture technologies: post-combustion, precombustion, oxy-combustion

Week 5: Carbon capture methods: adsorption, absorption, membrane and cryogenic separation processes

Week 6: Carbon capture methods: adsorption, absorption, membrane and cryogenic separation processes

Week 7: CO₂ Geological sequestration & Trapping Mechanism

Week 8: CO₂ Geological sequestration & Trapping Mechanism

Week 9: CO₂ Utilization: CO₂ flooding- EOR

Week 10: CO₂ Utilization: CO₂ flooding and methane recovery-Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery

Week 11:
a. CO₂ transport and subsurface injection: thermodynamics and kinetics of CO₂ transportation, respective issues (gas hydrates), and their remedial measures
b. Underground CO₂ sequestration-CO₂ sequestration as hydrates

Week 12:
a. Carbon utilisation technologies: latest advances, promising technologies and their challenges.
b. Modeling of cost and performance of CCUS plants

Books and references

Textbooks:

1. Smit, B., Reimer, J. A., Oldenburg, C. M., Bourg, I. C. (2014).

Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Singapore: Imperial College Press.

2. Rackley, S. A. (2017). Carbon Capture and Storage. Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

3. Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change. (2005). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Reference Books:

1. Surampalli, R.Y., Zhang, T.C., Tyagi, R.D., Naidu, R., Gurjar, B.R., Ojha, C.S.P., Yan, S., Brar, S.K.,

Ramakrishnan, A. and Kao, C.M. eds., 2015, January. Carbon capture and storage: physical, chemical, and biological methods.

American Society of Civil Engineers.

2. de Haan, A.B., Eral, H.B. and Schuur, B., 2020. Industrial separation processes:

Fundamentals. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Instructor bio

Prof. Archana

IIT(ISM) Dhanbad

Prof. Archana has over 19+ years of working experience in teaching, research and Software industry. She did her PhD from Department of Petroleum Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, India, Dec 2018. MTech from and IIT Guwahati, India, May 2006 and B.Sc Engineering in Chemical Engg from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad India, July 2004. Currently she working as Assistant Professor in Department of Petroleum Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad since 25th Oct 2010 till date. Before that she worked as a Project Engineer, Software Developer, System Tester, Team Lead, Business Analyst and Solution Delivery Analyst in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore from August 2006 till Oct 2010. She have taught the course “Introduction to Python and Petroleum Data Analytics” in academic year (2022-23) & (2023-24) in IIT(ISM), Dhanbad She have gone through the following certified trainings to have the good knowledge and understanding of the course:1.Certified 5-day (30 Hour) FDP on 'AI/ML Fundamentals and its Application in Oil and Gas Industry' organized by “The School of Petroleum Engineering in association with TCS-Research and AlgoAsylum, India, From 27.06.2022-01.07.2022 2.Certified ‘30-Hours Live online instructed-led training | Faculty Development Program’ on “Applied Machine Learning, AI & Its Applications using Python” organized by Eduxlabs, India from 1st June to 13th June 2021.3.Certified online training on “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” organized by MSME-Technology Development Centre (PPDC) duration 25.05.2020-29.05.2020 Certified online training on “Machine Learning & Data Analysis” organized by MSME-Technology Development Centre (PPDC)- duration 14.05.2020 to 17.05.2020

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 25, 2026 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT-ISM Dhanbad. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team