Engineering Solutions for CO2 Conversion

This book comprises a complete overview of the current technologies to tackle CO2 emissions ranging from CO2 capture to CO2 utilization approaches. The book is presented as a multidisciplinary toolkit covering all the different aspects of CO2 conversion strategies including chemical, physical, engineering and economical facets and therefore it is an excellent resouce for researchers and students working in chemistry, chemical engineering and environmental sciences.

Dr Tomas R. Reina is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering and the leader of the Catalysis Unit at the University of Surrey. He holds a PhD in Chemistry with a strong background in heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering and materials science. He has broad expertise in the development of advanced catalysts for energy conversion and sustainability. Currently, he is the PI of several projects in the area of CO2 utilisation (sponsored by EPSRC) and green routes for chemicals and fuel production. Dr Reina has co-authored 40+ research papers in high impact factor journals (including for example Chemical Reviews IF:48), 3 book chapters, 4 patents and 60+ conference contributions (including invited talks and keynote presentations). His research in the field of catalysis has been internationally recognized with several awards and distinctions from prestigious institutions including the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS), the Spanish Society of Catalysis (SECAT), and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

Prof. Jos� A. Odriozola is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Sevilla since 1997 and Research Professor of the Materials Science Institute of Sevilla, Spain. He is Fellow of the Spanish Society of Catalysis and of the American Chemical Society, and Head of the Materials Science and Technology Panel of the Spanish National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective, ANEP (2004-2006). Prof. Odriozola has focused his research on the surface chemistry of materials and has developed a new research line focused on the manufacture and study of micromonoliths and microchannel reactors for energetic and environmental catalytic applications including CO2 utilization. He has published 280+ peer-reviewed journals including 11 patents.

Prof. Harvey Arellano-Garcia is Director of Research, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Founder Director of the Centre for Advanced Process Intensification at the University of Surrey. He holds an honorary Professorship and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. He has made valuable and relevant contributions to diverse research areas in Energy and Process Systems Engineering. He has pioneered and introduced a novel formulation of optimization problems under uncertainty and proposed methods that enable the efficient solution of the resulting complex numerical problems. The proposed method has a wide range of application, from process synthesis to nonlinear model predictive control. Moreover, his achievements on modelling and optimization-based methods have made a major impact in different fields of Process Engineering, from process design and experimental design to online applications for an improved monitoring and advanced control using miniplant techniques. These research results have also been successfully integrated into several industrial processes. He is recipient of several awards including the Excellence Award of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) in Computer Aided Process Engineering. His research expertise includes the application of mathematical methods to optimise process design, control and operation as well as model-based experimental analysis, and miniplant technology in process and energy systems. He has published 280+ Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, books and monographs and 4 patents.

Block 1: Fundamental aspects of Carbon Capture and Utilization
1) Contributor: Professor Mercedes Maroto -Director of the Energy Academy at Heriot-Wat University and Director of the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS) (UK)
Tentative chapter title: Overview of CO2 capture/conversion technologies: Technical and economic aspects
2) Contributor: Dr Monica Garcia, International Energy Agency (UK)
Tentative chapter title: CO2 Capture emerging technologies
3) Contributor: Professor Flavio Manenti Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Tentative chapter title: An Integrated process-modelling approach for CO2 capture-utilization technologies.
4) Contributor: Damien Dellamagne CO2 Value Europe (Belgium)
Tentative book chapter title -
The current EU vison on CO2 to chemicals


Block 2: Catalytic Solutions for CO2 utilization
2.1 Chemical Conversion
5) Contributor: Prof. Xu Jing State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Sciences and Technology (China)
Tentative Chapter: Kinetics and mechanism study of catalytic CO2 conversion reactions
6) Contributor: Prof. Yi-Fan Han School of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou University (China)
Tentative chapter title: CO2 to olefins: catalysts design and mechanistic aspects
7) Contributor: Prof Jose A. Odriozola, University of Seville (Spain)
Tentative chapter title: CO2 utilisation enabled by microchannel reactors
8) Contributor: Dr Andrea Alvarez -
University of Boyaca (Colombia)
Tentative chapter title: High pressure Advantages in the CO2 hydrogenation to methanol
9) Contributor: Dr Tomas Ramirez Reina, University of Surrey (UK)
Tentative chapter title: Catalytic Conversion of CO2 to syngas
10) Contributor: Prof Antonio Sepulveda, Dr Enrique Ramos, University of Alicante (Spain)
Tentative chapter title: Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 conversion reactions
11) Contributor: Dr Svetlana Ivanova, Materials Science Institute of Seville (Spain)
Tentative chapter title: CO2 reduction to CO via reverse water gas shift: catalytic design and optimisation of the reaction conditions
12) Contributor: Prof. Javier Fernandez Sanz (University of Seville, Spain) and Prof Jose A Rodriguez (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
Tentative chapter title: Approaches to catalysts design for CO2 conversion by ab initio and operando studies
13) Contributor: Prof Maria Goula -
Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences (Greece)
Tentative chapter title: biogas sweetening technologies
14) Contributors: Prof. Harvey-Arellano Garcia, Dr Tomas Ramirez Reina (University of Surrey, UK)
Tentative chapter title: Reducing CO2 emissions in steel industry: Process and Catalysis engineering approaches.
15) Contributor: Prof Gunter Kolbe, TU Eindhoven (Netherland)
Tentative chapter title: Microchannel reactors for power to gas
16) Contributor: Dr Pablo Beato Aldor-Topsoe (Denmark)
Tentative chapter title: Catalytic industrial perspective of CO2 conversion technologies
2.2 Electrochemical and Photochemical Conversion of CO2
17) Contributors: Prof. Jose Luis Valverde, Dr Antonio de Lucas-Consuegra University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Tentative Chapter title: Gas phase electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to syn-fuels
18) Contributors: Professor C.G. Vayenas, University of Patras (Greece)
Tentative title: Electrochemical Promotion of CO2 hydrogenation reactions
19) Contributor: Dr Jian Liu (State Key Laboratory of Catalysis ( SKLC ), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (China)
Tentative Title: Nanoreactors for efficient photocatalytic reduction of CO2

Block 3: Non-conventional CO2 conversion technologies: approaches based on membranes, fuel cells, plasma, microwave and bio-technology
20) Contributor: Professor Leon Lefferts and Dr Nuria Garcia University of Twente (Netherlands)
Tentative title: Plasma driven CO2 conversion to fuels and chemicals.
21) Contributor: Dr Xin Tu, University of Liverpool (UK).
Plasma catalysis for the direct conversion of CO2 to acetic acid and syngas
22) Contributor: Prof Alan Weimer and Prof Ibraheam Al-Shankiti (University of Colorado, USA and KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Tentative chapter title: Thermosolar conversion of water and carbon dioxide to produce hydrogen rich syngas
23) Contributor: Claudio Avignone -
University of Surrey (UK)
Tentative chapter title: Microbial electrosynthesis for the capture and transformation of CO2 into multicarbon organic compounds
24) Contributor Prof. V. Parvulescu University of Bucharest (Romania)
Tentative chapter title: Enzymatic processes for CO2 conversion
25) Contributor: Prof J.M. Serra, Institute of Chemical Technology, Valencia (Spain)
Tentative chapter title: Membranes technologies for efficient CO2 capture-conversion
25) Contributor: Dr Marcos Millan, Imperial College London (UK)
Tentative chapter title: CO2 gasification technologies
26) Contributor: Dr Horri University of Surrey (UK)
Tentative chapter title: SOFCs as CO2 coversion devices
27) Contributor: Dr Tiancun Xiao -
Oxford University (UK)
Tentative chapter title: Decarbonization of Fossil Fuel with Novel Catalytic Process using Microwaves.