VIRTUAL OCTOBER MEETING HOSTED BY ALBRIGHT COLLEGE
Albright College will host a webinar and virtual LVACS
Business meeting Thursday, October 15th from
7:00 to 8:00 pm. Lorena Tribe, PhD will speak on:
“Where will all of the CO2 go?”
Many solutions have been considered to address the climate
crises and to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere. One route to carbon sequestration is the removal
of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by injecting it below
the Earth’s surface in appropriate geological formations. This
approach raises the question about CO2 interactions with mineral
surfaces. Detailed atomistic first principle calculations such as
Density Functional Theory provide insights about the nature of
these interactions, allowing for the modeling of both surface
complexes and of the kinetics of the adsorption-desorption
processes. In this work we address the issue of the effects of
water on the adsorption process of CO2 on montmorillonite and
kaolinite substrates, chosen to model swelling vs. non-swelling clays.
Dr. Lorena Tribe is a Professor of Chemistry at Penn State Berks. Tribe's area of research is theoretical chemistry and surface chemistry. Currently she is investigating interactions of small molecules with surfaces with her undergraduate students. Some projects are the interactions of small organic/biological molecules with clays for drug delivery systems, interaction of arsenic with environmental interfaces, fate of hydraulic fracturing fluid additives in the environment, and interactions of methane and carbon dioxide with shale components for enhanced gas recovery and carbon sequestration. The methods used range from developing in-house programs on local computers to using front end software packages remotely on Penn State's super computers.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
7:00-7:45 pm: Webinar
7:45-8:00 pm: LVACS business meeting
WEBINAR LINK: https://american-chemical-society.zoom.com/j/83438030525?pwd=ek91cTlHTjNwN1E3WWNTWm1ZS3A1Zz09
CONTACT: Chris Hamann [chamann@albright.edu]