- Overview
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Carbon Management
- Ecological Economics
- Ecosystem Services
- Environment, Culture and Society
- Environment and Development
- Environmental Protection and Management
- Environmental Sustainability
- Exploration Geophysics
- Food Security
- Geographical Information Science (GIS)
- Petroleum Geoscience
About the Programme
The University of Edinburgh is home to the first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Masters programme in the UK. It has two streams, designed to be suitable for students with differing career aims and backgrounds.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been increasingly recognised as a technology option that could be critical to avoiding dangerous climate change. Commercial-scale demonstration projects are being considered across the world and a number of companies in a broad range of industrial sectors are developing increasingly large teams of people to develop and deliver these projects.
On April 23 2009, the UK Government declared that:
- No new coal-fired power stations will be built without carbon capture and storage demonstration from day one
- existing power stations must have a full scale retrofit of CCS within five years of the technology being independently judged as technically and commercially proven.
Stream 1 - Carbon Capture & Storage
The first stream of the Edinburgh CCS Masters programme provides high-level interdisciplinary skills and training in the entire value chain of CCS, including combustion, transport, geoscience and legal aspects. It is designed for science graduates in Engineering or Geoscience related subjects seeking an advanced academic qualification as a launch pad for careers in business, industry and government in the field of low carbon energy production.
Stream 2 - Carbon Capture & Storage Engineering
The second stream aims to develop understanding of the technology, processes, economics and policy that underpin CCS with a particular focus on the carbon capture part of the CCS chain. This stream is designed for graduates in engineering and physical sciences, allowing them to acquire the necessary skills to accelerate their career into the rapidly expanding industry of low-carbon energy production from fossil fuel through CCS, but will also provide an excellent opportunity to pursue a career in the conventional power generation sector.
This article was published on Jan 11, 2011