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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 photosynt… Read more
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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.
Primary Market (who is the user? Who will buy the book? eg chemical engineers:user, library:buyer)
Chemical engineers: user, chemists: user, Chemicals industry: user/buyer, energy industry: user/buyer, academic institutions: buyer, research students:user/buyer, library: buyer
Secondary Market (who is the user? Who will buy the book?)
Policymakers: user, environmental groups:user
Part 1. Introductory Concepts
Chapter 1. What is CO2? Thermodynamics, Basic Reactions and Physical Chemistry
Chapter 2. Carbon Dioxide Capture Agents and Processes
Chapter 3. CO2-Derived Fuels for Energy Storage
Chapter 4. Environmental Assessment of CO2 Capture and Utilisation
Part 2. Contribution to Materials
Chapter 5. Polymers from CO2—An Industrial Perspective
Chapter 6. CO2-based Solvents
Chapter 7. Organic Carbonates
Chapter 8. Accelerated Carbonation of Ca- and Mg-Bearing Minerals and Industrial Wastes Using CO2
Part 3. Energy and Fuels
Chapter 9. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Oxygenated Organics
Chapter 10. The Indirect and Direct Conversion of CO2 into Higher Carbon Fuels
Chapter 11. High Temperature Electrolysis
Chapter 12. Photoelectrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Part 4. Perspectives and Conclusions
Chapter 13. Emerging Industrial Applications
Chapter 14. Integrated Capture and Conversion
Chapter 15. Understanding and Assessing Public Perceptions of Carbon Dioxide Utilisation (CDU) Technologies
Chapter 16. Potential CO2 Utilisation Contributions to a More Carbon-Sober Future: A 2050 Vision
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Peter is Chair of the CO2Chem Network (www.co2chem.com), an EPSRC Grand Challenge Network bringing together collaborators interested in CCU. Together with Katy Armstrong and collaborators at ECN in the Netherlands he has co-authored the policy document “Carbon Capture and Utilisation in the Green Economy” (ISBN 978-0-9572588-1-5 for eBook) which has received considerable global attention. A recent paper has been published in Chimica Oggi that reviews some of the catalytic approaches to CCU. Peter is a former EPSRC Senior Media Fellow working to make science and engineering more accessible to the public so is experienced at writing to attract all levels. In 2007 he was awarded the IChemE Hanson Medal for a paper on ski engineering, written to appeal to a wide audience.
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Her research interests at the Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique de Surface, now part of the C2P2 unit, under triple tutelage CNRS CPE and Université de Lyon 1, have focused on gaining molecular understanding of the interaction between organometallic precursors and solid surfaces, such as silica and more recently, metal organic frameworks, in route to heterogeneous catalysts. With Jean-Marie Basset, Mostafa Taoufik and coworkers she has uncovered a unique system capable of achieving dinitrogen splitting with diydrogen on an isolated metal atom.
After her bachelor studies at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and her PhD studies at University of Maryland awarded with the Pelczar Award in 1998, Alessandra Quadrelli has been postdoctoral fellow at the Chemical laboratories of Cambridge University and Dipartimento di Chimica of Università of Pisa. In 2002, she integrated the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, and joined the Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique de Surface. She has coauthored over 35 papers, among which 2 reviews and 2 book chapters. She serves as referee to numerous international journals and as evaluator in French and European proposal evaluations. She has contributed to the European Network of Excellence “IDECAT- Integrated design on Catalytic nanomaterials for sustainable production” and has co-founded with Silvia Bordiga the “NANOCAT- International Summer School on Molecular and Supramolecular Approach to Nano-Designed Catalysts”.
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