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Feedstocks study on CO2 mineralization technology

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A tremendous amount of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere over the past two centuries as a result of excessive use of fossil fuels. A variety of methods to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere have been proposed, but none of them so far has attained a concrete breakthrough. Developing new technologies using CO2 and industrial alkaline wastes as alternatives to petroleum-based feedstocks may offer attractive opportunities to reduce both the greenhouse gas emissions and the reliance on petroleum derivatives for production of important base chemical commodities. Recently, a novel technique about harvesting electricity from CO2 mineralization was proposed by our group based on the principle that chemical energy released from CO2 mineralization process can be converted into electricity in addition to some high value chemical products of the reaction. However, this technology brings into question a number of issues including the chemical mechanisms taking place in the system, the availability of adequate mineralizing feedstocks for harvesting electricity, the quantity of CO2 that can be sequestered, and the quantity of electricity that can be generated by the CO2 mineralization process. A detailed investigation of the CO2 mineralization was conducted including a study of the required raw materials herein classified as alkali and alkaline minerals, industrial alkaline solid wastes and waste water. The great significance of environmental implications estimates that approximately 10492.32 million tons and 150.35 million tons of CO2 can be mineralized worldwide and in China, respectively. In other words, annually 250.94 and 147.71 million tons of CO2 can be sequestered worldwide and in China, respectively. Accordingly, the total amount of electricity produced will reach 2687.03 and 40.50 billion kWh worldwide and in China, respectively, i.e., 69.33 billion kWh worldwide and 39.94 billion kWh in China, annually.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51254002 and NSFC 21336004) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (State Key Research Plan 2013BA).

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  1. College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Heping Xie & Liang Tang

  2. Center of CO2 Mineralization and CCUS, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Heping Xie, Liang Tang, Yufei Wang, Tao Liu, Jinlong Wang & Wen Jiang

  3. College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Tao Liu & Jinlong Wang

  4. Key Laboratory of Energy Engineering Safety and Mechanics on Disasters, The Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Zhengmeng Hou

  5. College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China

    Tao Wang

  6. Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Zhengmeng Hou

  7. College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Wen Jiang

  8. Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony, Clausthal University of Technology, 38640, Goslar, Germany

    Patrick Were

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Xie, H., Tang, L., Wang, Y. et al. Feedstocks study on CO2 mineralization technology. Environ Earth Sci 75, 615 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-5352-8

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