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Carbon Dioxide Utilisation

Closing the Carbon Cycle

Book2015

Edited by:

Peter Styring, Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli and Katy Armstrong

Carbon Dioxide Utilisation

Closing the Carbon Cycle

Book2015

 

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Edited by:

Peter Styring, Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli and Katy Armstrong

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Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Closing the Carbon Cycle explores areas of application such as conversion to fuels, mineralization, conversion to polymers, and artificial photosynthesis as well as assesses the potential industrial suitability of the various processes. After an introduction to the thermodynamics, basic reactions, and physical chemistry of carbon dioxide, the book proceeds to examine current commercial and industrial processes, and the potential for carbon dioxide as a green and sustainable resource.

While carbon dioxide is generally portrayed as a "bad" gas, a waste product, and a major contributor to global warming, a new branch of science is developing to convert this "bad" gas into useful products. This book explores the science behind converting CO2 into fuels for our cars and planes, and for use in plastics and foams for our homes and cars, pharmaceuticals, building materials, and many more useful products.

Carbon dioxide utilization is a rapidly expanding area of research that holds a potential key to sustainable, petrochemical-free chemical production and energy integration.

Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Closing the Carbon Cycle explores areas of application such as conversion to fuels, mineralization, conversion to polymers, and artificial photosynthesis as well as assesses the potential industrial suitability of the various processes. After an introduction to the thermodynamics, basic reactions, and physical chemistry of carbon dioxide, the book proceeds to examine current commercial and industrial processes, and the potential for carbon dioxide as a green and sustainable resource.

While carbon dioxide is generally portrayed as a "bad" gas, a waste product, and a major contributor to global warming, a new branch of science is developing to convert this "bad" gas into useful products. This book explores the science behind converting CO2 into fuels for our cars and planes, and for use in plastics and foams for our homes and cars, pharmaceuticals, building materials, and many more useful products.

Carbon dioxide utilization is a rapidly expanding area of research that holds a potential key to sustainable, petrochemical-free chemical production and energy integration.

Key Features

  • Accessible and balanced between chemistry, engineering, and industrial applications
  • Informed by blue-sky thinking and realistic possibilities for future technology and applications
  • Encompasses supply chain sustainability and economics, processes, and energy integration
  • Accessible and balanced between chemistry, engineering, and industrial applications
  • Informed by blue-sky thinking and realistic possibilities for future technology and applications
  • Encompasses supply chain sustainability and economics, processes, and energy integration

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ISBN

978-0-444-62746-9

Language

English

Published

2015

Copyright

Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Elsevier

Editors

Peter Styring

UK Centre for Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

CO2Chem Network, UK

Elsje Alessandra Quadrelli

CNRS researcher and chairwoman of the Sustanability Chair of Chemical, Physics, and Electronic Engineering School CPE Lyon, France

Katy Armstrong

UK Centre for Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

CO2Chem Network, UK