Professor Youngjune Park participated in the 2017 Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Expert’s Workshop

□ Professor Youngjune Park of the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering at GIST (President Seung Hyeon Moon) participated in the 2017 Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Expert’s Workshop.

* Mission Innovation: The COP21 Paris Conference of Parties declared that public sector investment in R&D for clean energy technology should double within five years, and 23 countries including the US, UK, Japan, China, and Korea are participating. The key R&D areas for fostering new industries are smart grid, off grid power, carbon capture, bio energy, solar energy, clean energy materials, sustainable urban/environmental cities.

** Accelerating Breakthrough Innovation in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage – Report of the Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Experts’ Workshop – Mission Innovation 2017, U.S. Department of Energy

https://www.energy.gov/fe/downloads/accelerating-breakthrough-innovation-carbon-capture-utilization-and-storage

∘ The 2017 Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Expert’s Workshop was held in Houston, USA from September 26 to 28, 2017. Professor Youngjune Park was the only Korean delegate on a panel of 20 global experts, including CO2 Utilization - CO2 conversion to solid carbonates.

□ The 2017 Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Expert’s Workshop analyzed the global technology level of solid carbonate conversion and identified the scientific and technical challenges for creating new industries related to climate change based on solid carbonate technology.

* Solid Carbonate Conversion Technology: This technology converts carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, into a carbonate form by reacting with alkali metal such as calcium, magnesium, and sodium. It can have a substantial carbon dioxide reduction effect. Converted carbonates can be used in paper, polymers, food, chemical additive, etc.

∘ The Mission Innovation 2017 report, published on May 23, 2018, will be distributed worldwide and will be used to establish a national roadmap for clean energy and climate change R&D.

□ Professor Youngjune Park said, "The findings of this report will be an important foundation for fostering new industries related to energy and climate change around the world in the next decade."

□ In January 2015, Professor Youngjune Park joined the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering at GIST where he has researched and lectured on material and process technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide, development of new and renewable energy and methane hydrate, and storage of hydrogen and chemical thermal energy.