Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to climate change mitigation, and has application across the economy, in addition to facilitating atmospheric carbon dioxide removal resulting in emissions offsets and net negative emissions. This contribution reviews the state-of-the-art and identifies key challenges which must be overcome in order to pave the way for its large-scale deployment.

We report a new determination of the Universal Gas Constant R: (8.314471 ±0.OOOOI4)J.mol-1 K-1• The uncertainty in the new value is 1.7 ppm (standard error), a factor of 5 smaller than the uncertainty in the best previous value. The gas constant was determined from measurements of the speed of sound in argon as a function of pressure at the temperature of the triple point of water. The speed of sound was measured with a spherical resonator whose volume was determined by weighing the mercury required to fill it at the temperature of the tri~le point. The molar mass of the argon was determined by comparing the speed of sound in it to the speed of sound in a standard sample of argon of accurately known chemical and isotoptic composition.

Interfacial tension measurements are reported for the (H2O + CO2) system at pressures of (1 to 60) MPa and temperatures of (298 to 374) K. The pendant drop method was implemented using a high-pressure apparatus consisting of a view cell, fitted with a high-pressure capillary tube for creating pendant H2O drops in the CO2 bulk phase. The reported results have a relative standard deviation in most cases of less than 1.0 % and are in good agreement with literature values at low pressures. However, at higher pressures (up to 45 MPa), there is a significant scatter in the published data; the reasons for this are discussed. Measurements in the present work extend the pressure range of available data up to pressures of 60 MPa.

We report the interfacial tension between carbon dioxide and aqueous solutions of the mixed salt system (0.864 NaCl + 0.136 KCl) with total salt molalities between (0.98 and 4.95) mol•kg −1 . The measurements were made at temperatures between (298 and 473) K at various pressures up to 50 MPa by means of imaging a pendant drop of CO 2 -saturated brine surrounded by a water-saturated CO 2 phase. The expanded uncertainties at 95 % confidence are 0.05 K in temperature, 70 kPa in pressure, and for interfacial tension γ, the larger of 0.016γ and 0.6 mN•m −1 . The results of the study indicate that the interfacial tension increases linearly with the molality of the salt solution. An empirical equation has been developed to represent the present results as a function of temperature, pressure, and molality with an expanded uncertainty of 1.6 mN•m −1 .

This article describes a 10-year cooperative effort between the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and five major journals in the field of thermophysical and thermochemical properties to improve the quality of published reports of experimental data. The journals are Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Thermochimica Acta, and International Journal of Thermophysics. The history of this unique cooperation is outlined, together with an overview of software tools and procedures that have been developed and implemented to aid authors, editors, and reviewers at all stages of the publication process, including experiment