**Meet the editor**

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions

at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis; he became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal received a PhD in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in computational fluid dynamics and its applications to problems in aerospace and mechanical engineering, and in energy and the environment.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Challenges 3**

**Section 1 Carbon Capture and Sequestration 1**

Shaharudin and Isahak Anizan

**and Agricultural Practices 17**

David Keith Alan Barnes

Cudjoe Sherifa and Barati Reza

**Regeneration of Solvent 95**

Vinod Krishna Sethi and Partha S. Dutta

Gianluca Valenti and Davide Bonalumi

**Nanopores 57**

Chapter 3 **Blue Carbon on Polar and Subpolar Seabeds 37**

Chapter 1 **Carbon Sequestration in Soils: The Opportunities and**

Ahmed Chinade Abdullahi, Chamhuri Siwar, Mohamad Isma'il

Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Muhammad Sabir, Nukshab Zeeshan,

Chapter 2 **Enhancing Carbon Sequestration Using Organic Amendments**

Khurram Naveed and Muhammad Mahroz Hussain

Chapter 4 **Carbon Dioxide Utilization and Sequestration in Kerogen**

Chapter 5 **CO2 Miscible Flooding for Enhanced Oil Recovery 79** Abdelaziz Nasr El-hoshoudy and Saad Desouky

Chapter 6 **An Innovative Approach in Post Combustion Carbon Capture**

Chapter 7 **Chemical Absorption by Aqueous Solution of Ammonia 107**

**and Sequestration towards Reduction of Energy Penalty in**
