Carbon Capture Technologies for Sustainable Energy Production
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B3: Carbon Emission and Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 1443
Special Issue Editor
Interests: CO2 capture; CO2 sorption; low carbon technology; process design; process optimization; heterogeneous catalysis; chemical reaction engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the great progress of renewable energy sources, more than 80% of global primary energy use is currently fossil-based. Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by nearly 1% in 2022, reaching an all‐time high of approximately 37 billion tonnes (Gt). It is necessary to achieve net zero CO2 emissions from the energy sector by 2050 in order to stabilize global average temperatures below 1.5 ºC and ensure they are above pre-industrial levels by 2100. In this context, in addition to improving energy efficiency, fuel switching to low-carbon sources and boosting renewable energy, carbon capture and storage or utilization is a critical area where accelerated action in the coming decades is crucial to accomplish the ambitious mitigation goals. Carbon capture is one of the fastest growing topics in sustainable chemistry and separations science, owing to the impacts that anthropogenic CO2 are having on the climate. Enormous efforts within the scientific community have widely focused on CO2 capture from large stationary sources such as electricity-generating power plants in order to minimize emissions. The capturing of CO2 from other industrial sources (e.g., cement, steel, refineries, etc.) and also from ambient air has attracted rapidly increasing attention. The use of the captured CO2 as feedstock to produce value-added products beyond a compressed pure gas for geological storage has also been an attractive topic for research. Many catalytic applications such as artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysis, synthesis of chemistry building blocks, fuels and pharmaceutical compounds have been proposed.
This Special Issue will compile selected publications elaborated by internationally renowned researchers on this multidisciplinary research field, covering novel advances in process optimization, modelling, reactor design and high-performance materials for the capture of CO2.
Dr. Jose Ramon Fernandez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- CO2 capture
- energy
- modelling
- chemical reactor
- efficiency
- advanced materials
