Personal Profiles

Miss Hannah Chalmers

Postgraduate Research Student

Short Biography:

Hannah first started researching carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies at Imperial College London in summer 2003 and joined CES in 2007 as a PhD student. Her first degree was in mechanical engineering and she is currently funded as a UK Energy Research Centre multidisciplinary student focussing on technical and economic aspects of CO2 capture for power plants.
Hannah is supervised by Professor Matthew Leach.

Research Interests:

Hannah's work combines improving technical understanding of CO2 capture technologies for power plants with the development of economic models that can be used to identify operating patterns to maximise value of power plant operating with CO2 capture. This includes developing techniques that can be used by potential investors and other stakeholders to carry out their own analysis.

Research Collaborations:

Alongside her PhD studentship, Hannah maintains close links with Jon Gibbins and other academics at Imperial College as a part-time research assistant. She has been actively involved in the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Consortium (www.ukccsc.co.uk) as well as a number of projects with industrial partners including power plant utilities and original equipment manufacturers for the power plant industry.

Selected Publication/Conference Presentations:

Journal Publications
Gibbins, J. and Chalmers, H. Carbon Capture and Storage Energy Policy (2008), in-press
Chalmers, H., Lucquiaud, M., Gibbins, J. and Leach, M. Flexible Operation of Coal Fired Power Plants with Post Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide American Society of Civil Engineers: Journal of Environmental Engineering, submitted to special issue on CCS
Chalmers, H., Jakeman, N,. Pearson, P. and Gibbins, J. CCS deployment in the UK: What next after the Government competition? Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Part A, Journal of Power and Energy, submitted to special issue on CCS
Chalmers, H., Leach, M. and Gibbins, J. Valuing flexibility for real options analysis of power plants with CO2 capture Submitted to special issue of Energy Economics
Gibbins, J., Beaudet, A., Chalmers, H. and Lamperth, M. Electric vehicles for low-carbon transport Proceedings on the Institution of Civil Engineers: Energy (2007), Volume 160, Issue 4, pp 165-173
Gibbins, J. and Chalmers, H. Preparing for global rollout: a 'developed country first' demonstration programme for rapid CCS deployment Energy Policy (2008), Volume 36, pp 501-507
Chalmers, H. and Gibbins, J. Initial Evaluation of the Impact of Post-combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide on Supercritical Pulverised Coal Power Plant Part Load Performance Fuel (2007) Volume 86, Issue 14, September 2007, pp 2109-2123
Conference
Chalmers, H., Leach, M., Lucquiaud, M. and Gibbins, J. Valuing flexible operation of power plants with CO2 capture Accepted for oral presentation at the 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, to be held in Washington DC, USA, 16-20 November 2008
Chalmers, H., Leach, M. and Gibbins, J. Flexible Operation of Coal Fired Power Plants with Post Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide Presented at 7th British Institute of Energy Economics, held in Oxford, UK, 24-25 September 2008
Chalmers, H., Leach, M. and Gibbins, J. CCS System Flexibility: Options and Challenges accepted for poster presentation at the 19th World Petroleum Congress, 29th June-3rd July 2008
Chalmers, H., Gibbins, J. and Lucquiaud, M. Site Specific Considerations for Investments in New Coal-Fired Power Plants with CO2 Capture in the Proceedings of 24th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 10-14 September 2007
Chalmers, H., Gibbins, J. and Leach, M. Initial Assessment of Flexibility of Pulverised Coal-Fired Power Plants with CO2 Capture in the Proceedings of Third International Conference on Clean Coal Technologies for our Future held in Sardinia, Italy, 15-17 May 2007
Chalmers, H. and Gibbins, J. Scenarios for CCS deployment in the UK, 2010-2050: What can we learn from the ongoing energy debate? in the Proceedings of the 26th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, held in Ann Arbour, USA, 24-27 September 2006
Chalmers, H. et. al. Initial Evaluation of Carbon Capture Plant Flexibility in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, held in Trondheim, Norway, 19-23 June 2006 (available from www.ghgt8.no)
Chalmers, H. and Gibbins, J. Potential for Synergy Between Renewables and Carbon Capture and Storage in the Proceedings of the 29th International Association for Energy Economics International Conference, held in Potsdam/Berlin, Germany, 7-10 June 2006
Chalmers, H. and Gibbins, J. Scope for converting an existing natural gas enhanced oil recovery project to carbon dioxide injection in Vol 2 of the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, held in Vancouver, Canada, 5-9 September 2004
Book Chapter
Chalmers, H., Gibbins, J., Lucquiaud, M. and Leach, M. Introducing CCS: Potential Changes in Coal-Fired Power Plant Design, Operation and Regulation in a Carbon Constrained Future. Accepted for publication in forthcoming book on coal-fired power plants to be published by Nova Publishing
Selected other
Gibbins, J. and Chalmers, H. Demonstrating CCS: a tight learning timetable. Contribution to ‘A last chance for coal making carbon capture and storage a reality’ Edited by Chris Littlecott. Published by Green Alliance. http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/uploadedFiles/Publications/reports/a%20last%20chance%20for%20coal.pdf
Lead author of response to BERR consultation on ‘towards carbon capture and storage’ for the Energy Institute http://www.energyinst.org.uk/index.cfm?PageID=1056
Contributor to study on carbon capture and storage readiness for the UK Environment Agency, http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/SCHO0808BOML-e-e.pdf
Gibbins, J. and Chalmers, H. Carbon capture and storage: a game of two halves? World Finance, July/August 2007.
Co-author of state of science review of CCS carried out for Office of Science and Innovation Foresight programme, July 2006. http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Energy/Reports/Mini_Energy_Reports/PDF/carbon_capture_and_storage.pdf
Lead author of response to HM Treasury consultation on Barriers to Commercial Deployment of CCS for the Energy Institute, May 2006 http://www.energyinst.org.uk/content/files/eiresponse.pdf

Television & Radio:

Britain's Modern Brunels, Radio 4, May 2005 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/britainsmodernbrunels.shtml

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