Research Progress of CO2 Capture and Mineralization
A Special Issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717) belonging to the section "Sustainable Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2027 | Viewed by 257
Editors
Interests: CO2 utilization; backfill mining; petroleum engineering; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of industrial activity and energy consumption has led to substantial carbon dioxide emissions, creating an urgent response for effective and scalable carbon management technologies. CO2 capture and mineralization offer a promising pathway by converting captured CO2 into stable carbonate products through reactions and natural minerals, cementitious materials, and calcium- or magnesium-rich industrial wastes. This approach can provide permanent carbon storage while supporting waste utilization and the production of value-added materials.
Recent advances have expanded the application of CO2 mineralization to fly ash, coal gangue, mine tailings, steel slag, red mud, cement kiln dust, and construction waste. These materials may serve as reactive feedstocks for carbon sequestration while improving the mechanical, durability, thermal, and environmental performance of cementitious composites and mine backfill materials.
However, several challenges continue to limit large-scale deployment, including slow reaction kinetics, insufficient mass transfer, mineral passivation, variable feedstock composition, energy consumption, and uncertainties regarding the long-term stability of carbonated products. Emerging technologies such as CO2 foams, nanobubbles, nanoemulsions, supercritical CO2, catalytic additives, nanomaterials, surface modification, and microbial mineralization provide new opportunities to enhance reaction efficiency and carbon-storage capacity.
This Special Issue, entitled “Research Progress of CO2 Capture and Mineralization,” aims to present recent advances in the capture, conversion, utilization, and permanent mineral storage of CO2. Original research articles, reviews, perspectives, and case studies are welcome.
Topic includes, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced CO2 capture materials and processes;
- In-situ and ex-situ mineral carbonation;
- Carbonation of industrial solid wastes and mine tailings;
- CO2-mineralized cementitious and backfill materials;
- Nanomaterial-enhanced carbon capture and mineralization;
- CO2 foams, nanobubbles, emulsions, and supercritical fluid systems;
- Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, and mass-transfer mechanisms;
- Microstructural evolution and long-term durability;
- Reactive transport, numerical modeling, and machine learning;
- Life-cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, and industrial scale-up.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ichhuy Ngo
Dr. Kunpeng Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 capture
- mineral carbonation
- carbon sequestration
- industrial solid waste
- mine backfill materials
- accelerated carbonation
- carbon utilization
- low-carbon cementitious materials
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