[1] On June 20, 2023, the ROCCS Engagement and Dissemination Workshop was held at the headquarters of Górnictwa (GIG) in Katowice, Poland. The workshop served as a forum for a thorough discussion of the project's key outcomes. As a result, best practise guidelines were added to the agenda to ensure that the project's recommendations were widely disseminated. There were participants from academia, government, private organisations, and the general public. In order to better comprehend the future prospects of CO2 sequestration in coal seams, industrial stakeholders interested in investing and advancing the technology to the demonstration stage were invited to participate. The workshop documents are accessible via this Link.

[2] ROCCS Best Practice Guidelines (Download) 

[3] 'The report on the review of the existing permitting and regulatory framework for CO2-ECBM recovery in Europe and implications of ROCCS outcomes for regulators' is available via this Link.

[4] 'The report on completing the design and evaluation of a deep-seam, commercial scale CO2-ECBM unit in the Upper Silesian Basin of Poland using a horizontal well configuration' is accessible via this Link.

[5] 'The report on post-operational analysis of CO2 flow behaviour observed in the in-situ test including a programme of data analysis and numerical modelling to elucidate behaviour observed during the in-situ test at Experimental Mine Barbara' is available via this Link.

[6] ROCCS First Workshop, titled, "site design, development, and operation" was delivered by the Central Mining Institute (GIG) on the 14th of October 2021. The workshop documents are accessible via this Link. The workshop was devoted to the design, development and operation of the ROCCS in-situ test at the Experimental Mine Barbara, Poland. The workshop provided a forum for in-depth discussion of the project development and outcomes.

[7] The Comprehensive Overview of the ROCCS Project has been published. Please access/ download the report from this Link. 

[8] Rohit Vedhara from the Singapore-based Aum Energy contacted the ROCCS project coordinators on the 7th of December 2021 to discuss development of a potential EU - USA joint collaborative project on microbial coal convertion technology. Aum Energy (www.aumenergy.com) is an investment vehicle dedicated to developing projects and commercialising technologies in service of sustainability and reducing carbon emissions. Professor Hywel Thomas and Dr Shakil Masum discussed the ROCCS project and potential collaboration opportunities with Rohit on the 16th of December 2021 and the discussion is in-progress.

[1] Stańczyk K, Hildebrandt R, Chećko J, Urych T, Wiatowski M, Masum S, Sadasivam S, Kempka T, Otto C, Thomas H.R. An in-situ CO₂ injection into the coal seam at Experimental Mine‚ Poland” Energies 2023, 16(20), 7217; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207217

[2] Wiatowski, M., Kapusta, K., Stańczyk, K., Szyja, M., Masum, S., Sadasivam, S. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Large-scale ex situ tests for CO 2 storage in coal beds. Energies 16(17), article number: 6326. (https://doi.org/10.3390/en16176326)

[3] Almolliyeh M, Sadasivam S, Masum S, and Thomas HR. Experimental investigation of CO₂-CH₄ core flooding in large intact bituminous coal cores using bespoke hydrostatic core holder. International Journal of coal geology. 2023, 104376, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2023.104376.

[4] Wetzel, M.; Otto, C.; Chen, M.; Masum, S.; Thomas, H.; Urych, T.; Bezak, B.; Kempka, T. Hydromechanical Impacts of CO2 Storage in Coal Seams of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland). Energies 2023, 16, 3279. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16073279

[5] Chen M, Masum S and Thomas HR. Three-dimensional cleat scale modelling of gas transport processes in deformable fractured coal reservoirs. Gas Science and Engineering, Volume 110, 2023, 204901, ISSN 2949-9089, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2023.204901

[6] Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Chen, M. and Thomas, H. R. 2023. Low subcritical co2 adsorption-desorption behavior of intact bituminous coal cores extracted from a shallow coal seam. Langmuir.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02971

[7] Chen, M., Masum, S. A., Sadasivam, S., Thomas, H. R. and Mitchell, A. C. 2023. Modeling gas adsorption-desorption hysteresis in energetically heterogeneous coal and shale. Energy and Fuels https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03441

[8] Min Chen, Shakil Masum, Hywel Thomas (2022). "3D hybrid coupled dual continuum and discrete fracture model for simulation of  CO2 injection into stimulated coal reservoirs with parallel implementation". International Journal of Coal Geology 262,                  104103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2022.1041036. [Open Access]

[9] Sivachidambaram Sadasivam, Shakil Masum, Min Chen, Kamil Stanczyk, Hywel Thomas (2022). "Kinetics of gas phase CO2                adsorption on bituminous coal from a shallow coal seam". Energy & Fuels 36(15):8360-8370.                                                                    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01426. [Open Access]

[10] Shakil Masum, Min Chen, Lee Hosking, Kamil Stanczyk, Krzysztof Kapusta, Hywel Thomas (2022). "A numerical modelling study      to support design of an in-situ CO2 injection test facility using horizontal injection well in a shallow-depth coal seam".                                International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Contol 119, 103725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103725. [Open Access]

[11] Min Chen, Shakil Masum, Sivachidambaram Sadasivam, Hywel Thomas (2022). "Modeling Anisotropic Adsorption-Induced Coal     Swelling and Stress-Dependent Anisotropic Permeability". International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining                           Sciences 153, 105107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2022.105107.

            The pre-print version can be accessed via the Link

[12] Min Chen, Shakil Masum, Hywel Thomas. "Modeling Adsorption and Transport behavior of Gases in Moist Coal Matrix". Energy     & Fuels 35(16):13200-13214. doi: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01334. 

The pre-print version can be accessed via the Link

[13] Min Chen, Shakil Masum, Hywel Thomas. "Modelling Non-isothermal Transport Behavior of Real Gas in Deformable Coal Matrix".   Energy & Fuels 35(2):1605-1619. doi: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c03728.

The pre-print version can be accessed via the Link

CONFERENCES

[1] Shakil Masum, Min Chen, Hywel Thomas. "Numerical modelling of CO2 sequestration in coal-seams based on a parallel hybrid                 discrete fracture – dual porosity model". The Abstract has been Accepted for presentation at The International Society for Porous            Media Conference (InterPore2022) Hybrid, 30 May - 2 June 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

[2] Min Chen. "Introduction to CO2 Capture and Geological Storage". Poster presented at the UK National PostDoc Conference 2021            (NPDC21), 24 September 2021, Liverpool, UK.