AI and CCU workshop

AI for Decarbonisation Workshop

AI and CCU

Time: 5 March 2026

Location: Great Hall 014, Bay Campus, Swansea University

TEAMs Link for online attending: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/34404254060282?p=2xOKqI3POkQobFk2hm

Registration on site: https://forms.office.com/e/1H4SiZdrCw

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), offering new opportunities to accelerate discovery, optimise processes, and enable scalable low-carbon solutions. Across the CCU value chain, AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLMs) are enabling faster materials discovery, improved process modelling, enhanced system optimisation, and more robust techno-economic and environmental assessments. At the same time, the integration of AI into CCU raises important questions around data quality, model transparency, bias, reproducibility, and trust in decision-making.

This workshop will explore how AI is reshaping CCU research and industrial practice. We will discuss emerging applications of AI in CO₂ capture and utilisation, catalysts and materials design, environmental assessment and process control, alongside methodological challenges and ethical considerations. Particular attention will be paid to how AI can support CCU systems, linking capture, conversion, and utilisation pathways more efficiently.

We look forward to welcoming you at Bay Campus, Swansea Univeristy.

Chunfei Wu, Queen’s University Belfast

Yuanting QIAO, Swansea University

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