Renewable Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2

   • David S. A. Simakov

   Pages 1-25

3. Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2

   • David S. A. Simakov

   Pages 27-42

4. Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2

   • David S. A. Simakov

   Pages 43-54

5. Biological Conversion of CO2

   • David S. A. Simakov

   Pages 55-65

6. Back Matter

   Pages 67-69

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This book outlines the most recent progress in the development of technologies for carbon dioxide utilization into renewable synthetic fuels and platform chemicals via chemical and biological routes. Various processes are discussed, including thermocatalytic, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and biological conversion. This SpringerBrief consists of four chapters, each chapter outlining fundamentals and catalytic mechanisms, and discussing main design considerations and major technological challenges, providing also a brief outline of the most recent progress. The book is useful for a broad community of academic and industrial researchers in the fields of chemical reaction engineering, electro- and photo-chemistry, and biochemical engineering, with specific emphasizes on heterogeneous catalysis, reactor design and process development.

• Carbon Fixation
• Catalysis
• Methanogenesis
• Fuels from Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon Dioxide Utilization
• Bacterial Methanogenesis
• biochemical engineering

• Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  David S.A. Simakov

David Simakov is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Prof. Simakov is an expert in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and reactor design, with a specific emphasis on the sustainable reaction engineering.

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