CO2 Capture and Conversion Processes: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 946
Special Issue Editors
Interests: catalysis; electrocatalysis; electrochemistry; advanced oxidation processes; hydrocarbon reforming; CO2 reduction
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2. Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: adsorption; advanced separations; carbon capture; hydrogen storage; water treatment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The amplification of energy demands due to global population growth and modern lifestyles result in increasing CO2 atmospheric levels, mostly attributed to intensifying fossil fuel industrial production. International initiatives, such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement, target the significant reduction of CO2 emissions in order to mitigate climate change. Towards this direction, various technologies have emerged, aiming to capture CO2 and transform it to useful products. Energy-efficient CO2 adsorption and absorption processes for capturing CO2 from various point emission sources and directly from air (DAC), employing innovative low-cost material solvents and membranes, as well as innovative conversion processes including electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RRs) to useful products, are of major importance.
The present Special Issue seeks high quality works, focusing on CO2 capture and CO2 conversion technologies. The aim of the Issue is to collect recent research and review works related to the aforementioned processes targeting CO2 mitigation.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
CO2 capture technologies:
- Direct air capture (DAC)
- Direct ocean capture (DOC)
- Post-combustion capture
- Pre-combustion capture
- Oxy-fuel combustion
- Chemical looping combustion
- Cryogenic separation
- Absorption
- Adsorption
- Membrane separation
- Hybrid processes
- Catalytic processes
- Dry reforming of methane (DRM) to sygas production
- CO2 hydrogenation to high-value products
- Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR)
- Microbial electrosynthesis systems (MESs)
- Photocatalytic CO2 reduction
Dr. Georgios Bampos
Dr. Georgios Karanikolos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- greenhouse gases (GHGs)
- carbon emissions
- CO2
- CO2 capture
- carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
- CO2 conversion
- CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR)
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