Carbon Dioxide as Chemical Feedstock by Michele Aresta

Carbon Dioxide as Chemical Feedstock Michele Aresta ebook
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Page: 417
ISBN: 3527324755, 9783527324750
Format: pdf

Carbon Dioxide Gets Boost as Feedstock -- Catalyst enables use for making polyols for polyurethanes. German universities recieve funding to develop carbon dioxide-to-feedstock process. It also announced a long-term agreement with affiliates of Denbury Resources Inc. Because carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is a freely available resource, there are concerted efforts worldwide to convert this molecule into a chemical feedstock. To transport and deliver feedstock of raw carbon dioxide to the new Airgas facility. The next step is to build a 100 kwe unit. In Germany, Siemans, Bayer, RWE, along with unnamed universities and institutes will be receiving 11 million euros over the next three years for a project to convert carbon dioxide into useful chemical feedstocks. Siemens has developed a prototype electrolyzer to use excess wind and solar power to split hydrogen from water. €But the process also would produce a carbon-negative 'super green' fuel or chemical feedstock in the form of hydrogen.” Most previously described chemical methods of atmospheric carbon dioxide capture and storage are costly, using thermal/ mechanical procedures to concentrate molecular CO2 from the air while recycling reagents, a process that is cumbersome, inefficient and expensive. I think the concept of using CO2 as feedstock for the chemical industry is the real frontier of heterogeneous catalysis and I invite you to consider it for your future work.