New Trends in Catalysis for Sustainable CO2 Conversion, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 2470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CO2 valorization; alternative fuels; syngas; catalysts and catalytic reactions; kinetic modeling; synthesis of methanol, dimethyl ether (DME), and hydrocarbons
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Interests: CO2 valorization; alternative fuels; syngas; catalysts and catalytic reactions; kinetic modeling; synthesis of methanol, dimethyl ether (DME), and hydrocarbons
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the Special Issue entitled, “New Trends in Catalysis for Sustainable CO2 Conversion”. Over the past few decades, there have been many advances in the world, leading to an improvement in life quality. Due to demographic and industrial growth, consumption has increased, as well as the amount of wastes and contaminants. Today, global warming and climate change are mainly attributed to the emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, with carbon dioxide (CO2) being the most relevant one, due to the huge amount of emissions of this gas to the atmosphere (mainly derived from the consumption of fossil fuels).
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a physical process which consists of separating the CO2 (emitted by industry and by the combustion processes for energy generation) and transporting it to a geological storage to isolate it from the atmosphere over the long term. However, the most promising routes for CO2 mitigation are those that use catalysts and chemical processes for valorization. By applying specific catalysts and suitable operating conditions, CO2 molecules react with other components to form longer chains (i.e., hydrocarbons). Accordingly, efforts should be made to catalytically valorize CO2 (alone or being co-fed with syngas), as an alternative way for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and obtaining high-value fuels and chemicals.
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is a developing field with a significant demand for research regarding the following aspects:
- Development of new catalysts, catalytic routes, and technologies for CO2 valorization;
- Study of new processes for obtaining fuels and chemicals from CO2;
- Optimization of the catalyst and the reaction conditions for the process;
- Further steps in advanced processes for improving the amount of CO2 fed into the reactor (either alone or co-fed with syngas) and the yield of products.
Prof. Dr. Javier Ereña
Dr. Ainara Ateka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- catalytic processes for CO2 transformation
- CO2 valorization
- carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
- climate change mitigation
- synthesis of fuels and chemicals
- syngas
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