Introduction to CO₂ Separation, Purification and Conversion to Chemicals and Fuels

Abstract

Carbon dioxide, i.e. CO₂, is the most important greenhouse gas and considered to contribute significantly to climate change and global warming. Besides the reduction of CO₂ emissions, there is also a high potential to integrate CO₂ in terms of a carbon conversion cycle to products using it as the carbon source. This book deals with the effects of CO₂ on climate change and global warming and with the whole process chain from CO₂ separation, purification and conversion to chemicals and fuels. CO₂ which is a final product can also be considered as an initial material for product formation like chemicals and fuels like in nature where CO₂ is used from the atmosphere to produce with water and sunlight sugar and oxygen by photosynthesis.