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CO2 Conversion into Chemicals and Fuel: India’s Perspective

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India has come up with many policies and programs to take action toward mitigation of carbon dioxide from the energy sector through rapid augmentation of renewable energy growth and energy efficiency improvement. However, there is also need to unify abatement and recycling measures like amplification of low-carbon technologies. Emissions from various industries can be captured and reused for the production of various value-added chemicals and fuels. This chapter briefly discusses all the chemical reactions which require carbon dioxide as a primary product, giving a brief detail of electrocatalytic and photocatalytic pathways in which the anthropogenic carbon dioxide can be activated and subsequently converted into value-added chemicals/fuels. Apart from that, certain issues related to scaling up the technology have been highlighted. The author concludes by putting light on various problems related to the technologies, which need efforts and research so as to achieve practically viable catalysts for CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuel.

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Niharika, Chaudhary, Y.S., Basu, S. (2021). CO2 Conversion into Chemicals and Fuel: India’s Perspective. In: Goel, M., Satyanarayana, T., Sudhakar, M., Agrawal, D.P. (eds) Climate Change and Green Chemistry of CO2 Sequestration. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0029-6_8

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