Dear Colleagues,

The human society is facing a huge uncertainty relating global warming. One of the major contributors to this climate change is the anthropogenic emissions of excessive CO₂. Hence, we urgently need appreciable strategies to reduce the emitted CO₂, especially in the industrial fields, which account for more than half of the total emissions. In the past decade, CO₂ capture and utilization (CCU) has rapidly developed into one of the most promising CO₂ mitigation strategies. In the framework of CCU, CO₂ can be directly obtained from industrial exhaust and air through the efficient CO₂ capture and separation technologies, for instance, liquid absorption, solid adsorption, membrane separation, etc. Moreover, the obtained CO₂ can be utilized as a carbon feedstock for value-added fuels and chemicals production via thermo-, photo-, electro- and plasma-catalysis, or their combination. Therefore, CCU enables not only large-scale CO₂ emission reduction, but also a potential revenue of CO₂ molecules within the human economic system.

This Special Issue aims to update the research progress of CCU technologies in support of their future developments. We kindly invite you to submit a contribution (in the form of research articles, reviews, letters and communications) to this Special Issue of Processes.

Contributions within the following topics are welcome, but not limited to them:

• novel processes in CO₂ capture and utilization;
• advanced materials and technologies for CO₂ adsorption and separation;
• advanced catalysts and technologies for CO₂ conversion;
• novel theory and calculation methods in CO₂ capture and utilization.

Dr. Jiawei Hu
Dr. Jiawei Zhong
Dr. Guanghui Zhang
Dr. Tianjia Chen
Dr. Qingxiang Ma
Guest Editors

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• CO₂ capture
• CO₂ adsorption
• CO₂ separation
• CO₂ utilization
• CO₂ catalytic conversion
• CO₂ reduction
• CO₂ hydrogenation
• CO₂ reforming of hydrocarbons
• CO₂ mineralization