Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox, 2018

Jennifer Wilcox (born July 15, 1974 ) is an American chemical engineer . She is a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute , where she holds the James H. Manning Chair . She became known for her work on carbon dioxide capture and storage and negative greenhouse gas emissions .

Life

Wilcox grew up in rural Maine .

She was for the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society worked to methods for CO ₂ to assess capture and their impact on the climate.

Act

Wilcox's work deals with the interplay of energy and the environment in the context of the climate crisis ; In order to reduce the climate impacts resulting from human dependence on fossil fuels , she is researching strategies for reducing and dealing with greenhouse gas emissions . In doing so, it examines the possibilities resulting from carbon management to meet the two-degree target set out in the Paris Agreement . This includes technologies of direct CO ₂ separation from the atmosphere and CO ₂ separation from exhaust gas streams (for example in industry or from micro-emitters such as cars), use and long-term CO ₂ storage .

Wilcox is the author of a 2012 textbook on carbon capture that is considered the first of its kind.

Publications (selection)

• Adam Brandt et al. a .: Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems . Science , 343 (6172), 2014, pp. 733-735, doi: 10.1126 / science.1247045 .
• Carbon capture . Springer, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4614-2214-3 .
• with Peter C. Psarras, Simona Liguori: Assessment of reasonable opportunities for direct air capture . Environmental Research Letters , 12, 2017, doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / aa6de5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Lab Members. Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, accessed January 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Jennifer Wilcox works on ways to test and measure methods of trace metal and carbon capture, to mitigate the effects of fossil fuels on our planet. TED, accessed January 19, 2019 .