Sequestration, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)including sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery (CCS-EOR), understanding the need and potential of CO2 captures and uses, the scientific, technological and economic aspects of identifying and implementing a CCS-EOR; overview of safety, environmental and legal aspects. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

This course defines biofuels, and explains why we should make them. It presents the challenges and opportunities of sustainable biofuels, addressing issues of land use, and competition with food production. It describes production processes of first generation, and cellulosic ethanol. It covers microbial engineering to improve production, or make new advanced biofuels. It describes the use of photosynthetic organisms such as algae, which fix carbon directly from the atmosphere to make biofuels.

In our sustainable future, the world's energy needs will be met while protecting natural resources and minimizing risks to human health. The course covers the environmental and geological engineering principles relevant to the entire energy supply chain from mining and extraction of fuels, to power production, to disposal of wastes and sequestration of greenhouse gases. Both conventional and renewable energy are considered. Students will learn the engineering principles and practices to address environmental challenges and to find the best ways to utilize earth systems to our advantage.

The first part of the course reviews the scientific evidence on global climate change (IPCC studies). This is followed by an analysis of market failure in the production of greenhouse gas emissions, and consideration of carbon markets as a policy response.