Heterogeneous Catalysis for CO2 Purification and Capture
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: internal combustion engines; emission control; exhaust aftertreatment systems; air management; carbon capture technologies; fuel cells
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Dear Colleagues,
Deep decarbonization requires CO2 capture solutions that are efficient, robust, and deployable across power, industrial, and transport applications. Heterogeneous catalysis is central not only to conditioning flue and exhaust streams, but also to enabling capture routes that rely on catalytic phenomena—such as chemical looping cycles and sorption-enhanced processes—as well as phase-change capture concepts aimed at lowering regeneration energy and improving operability. Recent reviews underline the growing maturity of these pathways and their potential to reduce energy penalties while improving capture stability.
This Special Issue encourages work from both industry and academia dealing with the challenges of implementing catalytic science within CO2 capture systems. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, experimental and computational work in the following areas:
- Catalysis-enabled capture processes including chemical looping and sorption-enhanced schemes;
- Phase-change solvents and biphasic/crystallization-assisted capture, with attention to regeneration and integration;
- Catalytically active sorbents, membranes, and hybrid materials that couple reaction and separation;
- Upstream catalytic purification of NOx/SOx and other pollutants as an enabler for stable capture performance;
- Kinetics, transport, reactor design, and scale-up under realistic, humid, and impurity-laden gas compositions;
- Durability, operability, and regeneration of catalytic units under cyclic and variable-load operation.
Dr. Enrique José Sanchis
Prof. Dr. Francisco José Arnau
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 capture
- heterogeneous catalysis
- chemical looping
- sorption-enhanced processes
- phase-change solvents
- catalytic materials
- process integration and scale-up
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