Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation

Dear Colleagues,

The current global economic growth requires extensive energy consumption, particularly the combustion of carbon-containing fuels, resulting in the release of large amounts of carbon dioxide. This leads to greenhouse effects on the atmosphere, with a subsequent impact on the global climate. A reduction in CO₂ emissions can be accomplished through different methods, such as improving the efficiency of energy consumption, capturing and storing carbon dioxide, and recycling carbon dioxide into fuels and useful value-added chemicals.

Carbon dioxide recycling produces multiple benefits in addition to the reduction of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases and the reduction in oil and natural gas consumption, including decreasing the use of oil as a feedstock in organic syntheses and associated reduced waste release.

There are various recycling methods that eliminate, or at least to remediate, the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by converting it into value-added products prior to discharge. There are traditional catalytic methods, like Sabatier reactions and the production of urea, methanol, etc. However, these processes for carbon dioxide reduction are endothermic ones, leading to energy consumption and possibly affecting the atmosphere via additional amounts of carbon dioxide.

The recent achievements in chemical catalysis, electrochemistry, bio-electrochemistry, and photo-catalysis are important. Discussion on the feasibility of these methods compared to traditional technologies will be considered.

Prof. Dr. Venko N. Beschkov
Guest Editor

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