Dr. Richard Esposito - "The Fundamentals of Carbon Capture"

Speaker: Dr. Richard Esposito

Title: The Fundamentals of Carbon Capture

Hosted by: Adam Milewski

Mini-Bio:

Dr. Richard A. Esposito is a veteran of the electrical utility industry with more than 20 years of leadership related to carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). He is currently the R&D program manager at the National Carbon Capture Center, which is managed and operated by Southern Company for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

Esposito is a technical and subject matter expert for a wide range of CCUS topics and has been involved in extensive field project development with the drilling of more than 25 wells for CO₂ injection operations_, storage resource assessment, and plume monitoring. He has been involved in the development of ISO standards for CO₂ storage in both Canada (CSA Z741-11) and the United States (ISO/TC 265) and CO₂ storage (ISO/AWI TR 27926. 

Esposito served as the CO₂ storage chapter co-lead for the National Petroleum Council report, “Meeting the Dual Challenge: A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage”. He currently serves on the Carbon Utilization Research Council’s Technical and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Clean Technology R&D Subcommittee. Esposito is the industry chair for the Southern States Energy Board CCUS Commercialization Consortium. He currently serves on the U.S. White House Council on Environmental Quality CCUS taskforce for Non-Federal Lands Permitting.

Esposito has a diverse academic background with a B.S. and M.S. degree in geology, M.S. degree in environmental management, and Ph.D. in engineering. Esposito has published extensively and lectured worldwide on a wide range of CCUS-related issues.