Special Issue "New Frontiers in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Mohammad (Mim) Rahimi
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Interests: electrochemical CO2 capture; waste heat conversion; thermal battery; lithium-ion battery; thermo-electrochemical cells; photocatalysis; membrane separation
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Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have risen steeply. In May 2019, atmospheric CO2 reached 415 ppm, a level higher than any reached in more than 800,000 years. With increasing evidence of global warming and its correlation with CO2 emissions, the development of cost-effective, large-scale, and efficient processes for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is critical. A substantial volume of research on developing CCUS technologies was carried out during the last few decades. However, due to the urgent need to mitigate climate change, CCUS technologies have experienced a recent resurgence. In this context, several new concepts have been recently introduced and developed to advance CCUS in various aspects, including innovative approaches for CO2 capture and conversion as well as new methods of sequestration and mineralization. These technologies eventually enable effective mitigation of CO2 emissions, which is an essential step towards addressing climate change issues. Therefore, this Special Issue is designed to focus on updating the research community with the latest advances and prospects on various aspects of the CCUS processes. Researchers are invited to submit their original research as well as review/perspective articles for publication in this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, carbon capture technologies (e.g., thermal and pressure swing processes, membrane systems, electrochemical approaches),  CO2 utilization (e.g., electrochemical reduction, photochemical and biochemical conversions), and  CO2 storage (e.g., CO2 mineralization and sequestration, enhanced oil recovery).

Dr. Mohammad (Mim) Rahimi
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Carbon capture
  • CO2 utilization
  • CO2 storage
  • Direct air capture
  • Thermal swing processes
  • Pressure swing processes
  • Membrane systems for CO2 separation
  • Electrochemical CO2 capture
  • Post-combustion CO2 capture
  • Pre-combustion CO2 capture
  • Oxy-combustion CO2 capture
  • Calcium carbonate looping
  • Adsorption processes
  • Thermal amine scrubbing
  • Chemical production from CO2
  • Electrochemical CO2 reduction
  • Photochemical and photoelectrochemical
  • CO2 reduction
  • Biochemical CO2 conversion
  • CO2 mineralization
  • CO2 sequestration
  • Enhanced oil recovery
  • Enhanced gas recovery
  • Ocean CO2 storage

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Public Awareness: What Climate Change Scientists Should Consider
Sustainability 2020, 12(20), 8369; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208369 - 12 Oct 2020
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In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be [...] Read more.
In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be leveraged to develop a multi-scale strategy to tackle the issue. The pursuit of public awareness is a valuable addition to the scientific approach to addressing climate change issues. The Opinion is concluded by providing strategies on how to effectively raise public awareness on climate change-related topics through an integrated, well-connected network of mavens (e.g., scientists) and connectors (e.g., social media influencers). Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Frontiers in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS))
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