Future of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Projects: Analysis using a Systemic Risk Management Approach

This book presents a summary of a three-year research project on risk management for the Capture, Transport and Storage of CO2 (CTSC), offering an in-depth study on complex sociotechnical systems and systemic modeling. Approaching CTSC as a complex sociotechnical system, this book proposes systemic modeling as a decision-making aid. It offers a means of decision-making for the development of CTSC projects in the real-world context, where the future of the technology is uncertain. Risk management is considered as a means of control that can provide a control structure for the whole system.

The risks associated with CTSC are not exclusively technical in nature; CTSC also faces a number of further uncertainties, from development to commercial scales.

A major question concerning CTSC at the current scale of development is: "What are the factors explaining the success or failure of CTSC projects in different contexts?" In order to answer this question, the book proposes a systemic risk management framework based on the system dynamics and STAMP (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) concepts. 

Jaleh Samadi was awarded a PhD in Engineering Science at MINES ParisTech, France. Since then, she has worked as Project Manager and Safety Engineer at EReIE (Energy Research, Innovation & Engineering) in France. She has been specially involved in the development and construction of an innovative biogas treatment / bioLNG production unit.

Since 2016, Dr. Samadi continues her professional career as a Project Manager and Business Developper in JIFMAR Offshore Services in France. 

She continues her research on the development of CTSC technology as well as Risk Management approaches.    

Emmanuel Garbolino was awarded a PhD in Geography at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, and  since 2002 has been a lecturer and assistant professor at the CRC, MINES ParisTech.  

Dr. Garbolino’s research areas include, climate change impacts on ecosystems and human societies, modeling of natural and anthropogenic systems, risk engineering dedicated to natural and anthropogenic hazards (risk assessment and prevention, crisis management, damage assessment).

Dr. Garbolino is a member of the Education and Research Centre on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage.

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