Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis
- 1st Edition, Volume 180 - August 29, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Vasile I. Parvulescu, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Gabriele Centi, Siglinda Perathoner
- Language: English
Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis provides a broad view of the gaps and opportunities related to the ongoing energy and chemistry transition,… Read more
Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis provides a broad view of the gaps and opportunities related to the ongoing energy and chemistry transition, particularly in the science and technology, as well as complementary aspects, including societal ones, needed to unlock the future of renewable energy and chemistry through catalysis. It provides background and complementary aspects that are needed to understand the future scenarios to identify priorities and missing aspects in technologies and scientific background, and to create an open mind approach in science and technology to unlock the renewable energy and chemistry future.
The book focuses on catalysis and complements the review articles currently available in the literature. It provides general knowledge, allowing the reader to understand the fast-evolving scenario better and, in turn, identify opportunities and needs.
The book focuses on catalysis and complements the review articles currently available in the literature. It provides general knowledge, allowing the reader to understand the fast-evolving scenario better and, in turn, identify opportunities and needs.
- Offers an integrated view of the changing outlook for energy and chemistry and the impact on catalysis
- Provides a gaps and opportunity analysis, combining the analysis of the transformative scenario to S&T backgrounds and advances
- Written by top scientists and industrial managers to offer a perspective on priorities and bottlenecks to develop a renewables-based economy
Engineers, scientific researchers, specialists and (PhD) students in chemical engineering, chemistry, catalysis and energy conversion/storage
Part I: The transformative scenario and S&T backgrounds
Section 1: The Changing Scenario for Energy and Chemistry and its Impact on Catalysis
1. Set the scene: Solar-to-X technologies and their essential role in a resilient and low-carbon future
2. New trends and challenges for catalysis, fostering the need for innovative directions
3. The role of hydrogen, e-fuels and solar fuels in energy decarbonisation scenarios
Section 2: Sustainable Energy, Policy, Societal and Educational Aspects
4. Renewable fuels and chemicals from the sun: innovation in artificial photosynthesis research5. The climate mitigation potential of CO2 Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies
6. Solar fuels and chemicals technologies: A roadmap for innovation
Section 3: The industrial perspective and case examples
7. An industrial-oriented perspective: opportunities and challenges for the transition to a new sustainable energy system
8. The Energy Transition: A Paradigm Shift from Emissions to Resources with CO2 as a Critical Resource Among Others
9. The challenge of energy transition for chemical industries, the case example of Casale SA
Part II: The science and technology advances
Section 1: Catalysis and Technologies for Decarbonisation and Closing the Carbon Cycle
10. Chemical engineering advances to defossilize and close the carbon cycle in industrial processes
11. Catalysis in process electrification
12. Sustainable catalytic processes based on renewable energy. The case of SAF.
13. From nanoscale to single atoms in CO{sub|2} catalytic conversion
14. Operando methods to study carbon dioxide conversion driven by renewable energy sources
15. Unlocking the potential of plasma catalysis
Section 2: Catalysis for harvesting solar energy
16. From lab to large-scale devices for producing solar fuels
17. Water Splitting Using Semiconductor Photocatalysts
18. The Potential of Photo(electro)catalytic Hybrids for Solar-driven Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
19. Design of photo-electro-catalytic devices for solar fuel generation from CO{sub|2} and N{sub|2}
20. Toward innovative photothermal catalysis
21. Metal–organic framework materials in photo (electro) catalytic applications
Section 1: The Changing Scenario for Energy and Chemistry and its Impact on Catalysis
1. Set the scene: Solar-to-X technologies and their essential role in a resilient and low-carbon future
2. New trends and challenges for catalysis, fostering the need for innovative directions
3. The role of hydrogen, e-fuels and solar fuels in energy decarbonisation scenarios
Section 2: Sustainable Energy, Policy, Societal and Educational Aspects
4. Renewable fuels and chemicals from the sun: innovation in artificial photosynthesis research5. The climate mitigation potential of CO2 Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies
6. Solar fuels and chemicals technologies: A roadmap for innovation
Section 3: The industrial perspective and case examples
7. An industrial-oriented perspective: opportunities and challenges for the transition to a new sustainable energy system
8. The Energy Transition: A Paradigm Shift from Emissions to Resources with CO2 as a Critical Resource Among Others
9. The challenge of energy transition for chemical industries, the case example of Casale SA
Part II: The science and technology advances
Section 1: Catalysis and Technologies for Decarbonisation and Closing the Carbon Cycle
10. Chemical engineering advances to defossilize and close the carbon cycle in industrial processes
11. Catalysis in process electrification
12. Sustainable catalytic processes based on renewable energy. The case of SAF.
13. From nanoscale to single atoms in CO{sub|2} catalytic conversion
14. Operando methods to study carbon dioxide conversion driven by renewable energy sources
15. Unlocking the potential of plasma catalysis
Section 2: Catalysis for harvesting solar energy
16. From lab to large-scale devices for producing solar fuels
17. Water Splitting Using Semiconductor Photocatalysts
18. The Potential of Photo(electro)catalytic Hybrids for Solar-driven Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
19. Design of photo-electro-catalytic devices for solar fuel generation from CO{sub|2} and N{sub|2}
20. Toward innovative photothermal catalysis
21. Metal–organic framework materials in photo (electro) catalytic applications
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 180
- Published: August 29, 2025
- Language: English
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Vasile I. Parvulescu
Vasile I. Parvulescu is Founder and director of the Catalysts and Catalytic Processes Research Center in Romania and Professor at Bucharest University, he is an internationally well-known expert in catalysts and catalytic processes, particularly for environmental protection and green chemistry. He was an "Alexander von Humboldt" fellowship in 1997 and a visiting professor at several educational institutions worldwide. He is a member of the SUNERGY/SUNER-C Board and of several Permanent International Conferences and catalysis associations. He made many plenary and keynote lectures worldwide. He authorises several books, over 400 publications, and various patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaBW
Bert M. Weckhuysen
Bert M. Weckhuysen is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and Director of the national Gravitation research program on Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversions, he is a worldwide known expert in operando and advanced characterisation of the catalysts. He is the author of over 700 publications and a member of the editorial advisory boards of several journals on catalysis, also an editor of some of them. He received many international awards. He was the former President of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies and President of the SUNERGY/SUNER-C large-scale initiative. He is the editor of three books and many special issues of journals. He holds several patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsGC
Gabriele Centi
Gabriele Centi is full professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC). Research interests are in the areas of applied heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable energy and chemical processes, biomass conversion and environment protection.
He was coordinator of the EU Network of Excellence IDECAT, and is actually President of IACS (International Association of Catalysis Societies) and vice-President of the InterUniversity Consortium on the Science and Technology of Materials (INSTM). He was coordinator or PI in over twenty EU projects, besides many other national and industrial projects. He received several awards, and is involved in various editorial activities, between which chairing the editorial board of ChemSusChem and be co-editor in chief of Journal of Energy Chemistry. He is chair of the Elsevier Book Series Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis. He was chairperson of many international conferences (the last one Europacat 2017 in Florence) and also chaired the 1st World Congress on Environmental Catalysis in Pisa (Italy) on May 1995. He is author of over 450 scientific publications, 12 books and editor of various special issues. Current h-index is 76 with about 21.000 citations (Google Scholar).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Messina, ItalySP
Siglinda Perathoner
Siglinda PERATHONER is Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy. She was coordinator of the large EU project INCAS, and has coordinated or was scientific responsible in various other EU projects. She is active from over 30 years in the field of catalysis and author of about 250 publications, including various top 1% papers, and several communications at International Congresses, as well as co-Editor of books or special issues of international journals of catalysis. Furthermore, she is co-author of several reviews on International Journals and was chairperson of various international conferences, workshops and symposia on catalysis. She is editor of the Wiley VCH book " Sustainable Industrial Chemistry" and Wiley & Soon book " Green Carbon Dioxide: Advances in CO2 Utilization". She is co-chair of Europacat 2017, a major event in catalysis community. Current h-index is 55, about 11.500 citations (Google Scholar).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Messina, Italy