Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol and Dimethyl Ether: From Greenhouse Gas to Renewable, Environmentally Carbon Neutral Fuels and Synthetic Hydrocarbons

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Olah ◽  
Alain Goeppert ◽  
G. K. Surya Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Dimethyl Ether ◽  
Chemical Recycling ◽  
Synthetic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Carbon Neutral

scholarly journals Silica-Related Catalysts for CO2 Transformation into Methanol and Dimethyl Ether

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1282
Author(s):  
Isabel Barroso-Martín ◽  
Antonia Infantes-Molina ◽  
Fatemeh Jafarian Fini ◽  
Daniel Ballesteros-Plata ◽  
Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Dimethyl Ether ◽  
Catalytic Reactions ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Co2 Transformation

The climate situation that the planet is experiencing, mainly due to the emission of greenhouse gases, poses great challenges to mitigate it. Since CO2 is the most abundant greenhouse gas, it is essential to reduce its emissions or, failing that, to use it to obtain chemicals of industrial interest. In recent years, much research have focused on the use of CO2 to obtain methanol, which is a raw material for the synthesis of several important chemicals, and dimethyl ether, which is advertised as the cleanest and highest efficiency diesel substitute fuel. Given that the bibliography on these catalytic reactions is already beginning to be extensive, and due to the great variety of catalysts studied by the different research groups, this review aims to expose the most important catalytic characteristics to take into account in the design of silica-based catalysts for the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol and dimethyl ether.

scholarly journals Greenhouse gas emissions from the water–air interface of a grassland river: a case study of the Xilin River

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Hao ◽  
Yu Ruihong ◽  
Zhang Zhuangzhuang ◽  
Qi Zhen ◽  
Lu Xixi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Nitrous Oxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Nitrous Oxide Emissions ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Sand Land ◽  
Very High

AbstractGreenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rivers and lakes have been shown to significantly contribute to global carbon and nitrogen cycling. In spatiotemporal-variable and human-impacted rivers in the grassland region, simultaneous carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions and their relationships under the different land use types are poorly documented. This research estimated greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, N2O) emissions in the Xilin River of Inner Mongolia of China using direct measurements from 18 field campaigns under seven land use type (such as swamp, sand land, grassland, pond, reservoir, lake, waste water) conducted in 2018. The results showed that CO2 emissions were higher in June and August, mainly affected by pH and DO. Emissions of CH4 and N2O were higher in October, which were influenced by TN and TP. According to global warming potential, CO2 emissions accounted for 63.35% of the three GHG emissions, and CH4 and N2O emissions accounted for 35.98% and 0.66% in the Xilin river, respectively. Under the influence of different degrees of human-impact, the amount of CO2 emissions in the sand land type was very high, however, CH4 emissions and N2O emissions were very high in the artificial pond and the wastewater, respectively. For natural river, the greenhouse gas emissions from the reservoir and sand land were both low. The Xilin river was observed to be a source of carbon dioxide and methane, and the lake was a sink for nitrous oxide.

scholarly journals The growing season greenhouse gas balance of a continental tundra site in the Indigirka lowlands, NE Siberia

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 985-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. van der Molen ◽  
J. van Huissteden ◽  
F. J. W. Parmentier ◽  
A. M. R. Petrescu ◽  
A. J. Dolman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Light Limitation ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Balance ◽  
Area Index ◽  
North East ◽  
Methane Fluxes ◽  
Gas Balance

Abstract. Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes were measured at a tundra site near Chokurdakh, in the lowlands of the Indigirka river in north-east Siberia. This site is one of the few stations on Russian tundra and it is different from most other tundra flux stations in its continentality. A suite of methods was applied to determine the fluxes of NEE, GPP, Reco and methane, including eddy covariance, chambers and leaf cuvettes. Net carbon dioxide fluxes were high compared with other tundra sites, with NEE=−92 g C m−2 yr−1, which is composed of an Reco=+141 g C m−2 yr−1 and GPP=−232 g C m−2 yr−1. This large carbon dioxide sink may be explained by the continental climate, that is reflected in low winter soil temperatures (−14°C), reducing the respiration rates, and short, relatively warm summers, stimulating high photosynthesis rates. Interannual variability in GPP was dominated by the frequency of light limitation (Rg<200 W m−2), whereas Reco depends most directly on soil temperature and time in the growing season, which serves as a proxy of the combined effects of active layer depth, leaf area index, soil moisture and substrate availability. The methane flux, in units of global warming potential, was +28 g C-CO2e m−2 yr−1, so that the greenhouse gas balance was −64 g C-CO2e m−2 yr−1. Methane fluxes depended only slightly on soil temperature and were highly sensitive to hydrological conditions and vegetation composition.

The role of carbon dioxide in climate forcing from 1979 to 2004: introduction of the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Tellus B ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 614-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Hofmann ◽  
J. H. Butler ◽  
E. J. Dlugokencky ◽  
J. W. Elkins ◽  
K. Masarie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Forcing
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