Study of the potential technological application of natural nemalite-serpentinite and technogenic serpentinite rocks for carbon capture, absorption and storage
2025-05-21 12:21
Project goal: Kazakhstan has suitable mining waste for the implementation of mineral carbonation technologies. This study characterizes the mining waste in Kazakhstan and evaluates the potential for the implementation of mineral carbonation technology, develops suitable carbonation methods and determines appropriate binding conditions through optimization. It also analyzes waste rock carbonation products for further applications that may have an economic impact on Kazakhstan.
Project description: Kazakhstan has generated 4 billion tons of waste of mining waste. The mining wastes collected in tailings management facilities and their safety and environmental impact are now under consideration. In 2023, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) started an initiative in Central Asia to promote an understanding of the risks associated with tailings and raise awareness of tailings as a hazardous activity. The map of mining tailings in Kazakhstan has been created by UNECE shown in Fig. 1. The 2024-2026 plan of UNECE includes the improvement of shared understanding and risk management across countries on mining wastes. However, the literature review revealed no attempt to study CO 2 mineral trapping using mining waste rocks in Post-Soviet countries, and this project will pioneer CO 2 mineral trapping in CIS.
PI: Woojin Lee Co-PI: Sung-Woo Moon Mannix Balanay
Realisation period: 2024-2026
Expected results: 1) at least 4 (four) articles and (or) reviews in peer-reviewed scientific publications in the scientific area of the program, included in the 1st (first), 2nd (second) and (or) 3rd (third) quartile by impact factor in the database Web of Science and (or) having a CiteScore percentile in the Scopus database of at least 50 (fifty). 2) at least 5 (five) articles in journals recommended by KOKNVO. 3) at least 1 (one) monograph or textbook in foreign and (or) Kazakh publishing houses recommended by the academic council and (or) scientific and technical council of the applicant’s organization; 4) at least 1 (one) object of intellectual property (patent; for applications in the field of information technology - copyright certificate) registered with the National Institute of Intellectual Property of the Republic of Kazakhstan.