Climate Change
- Research into Geosequentration of Carbon Dioxide( CO2), including geomechnical behviour due to the stored supercritical CO2, Formation and swelling behaviour of rock media, Migration of CO2 due to change in insitu stresses.
- Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM.
- Contaminant transport through rock.
- Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns.
- Determination of carbon dioxide storage capacity of various geological formations.
- Jointed Rock Mass Strength and Applications to Large Open Pit Mining .
- Carbon dioxide sequestration of unminable deep coal seams.
- Carbon GeoSequestration and Caprock Integrity (Commenced in February, 2007) .
- Co2 Sequestration in Basaltic Formation .
- Coal Bed Methane, Petrophysical characterization and Slope Stability .