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Opportunities for CO2 upgrading to C3 oxygenates using tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic processes

Show Author's Information Samay Garg1,  Akash N. Biswas1,  Jingguang G. Chen1,2( )
Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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electrocatalysis, CO2 conversion, thermocatalysis, tandem processes
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Garg S, Biswas AN, Chen JG. Opportunities for CO2 upgrading to C3 oxygenates using tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic processes. Carbon Future, 2024, 1(1): 9200002. https://doi.org/10.26599/CF.2023.9200002
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Catalytic conversion of CO2 to value-added chemicals represents a pathway for mitigating CO2 emissions. Many recent studies have demonstrated promising results of CO2 conversion by either thermocatalysis or electrocatalysis. In this article, we discuss tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic processes that potentially have advantages over either process alone. We use the conversion of CO2 to propanal/propanol as a case study to illustrate the feasibility of the tandem process. We also discuss opportunities and challenges for converting CO2 using tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic approaches.


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Opportunities for CO2 upgrading to C3 oxygenates using tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic processes

Show Author's information Samay Garg1, Akash N. Biswas1, Jingguang G. Chen1,2( )
Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

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Catalytic conversion of CO2 to value-added chemicals represents a pathway for mitigating CO2 emissions. Many recent studies have demonstrated promising results of CO2 conversion by either thermocatalysis or electrocatalysis. In this article, we discuss tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic processes that potentially have advantages over either process alone. We use the conversion of CO2 to propanal/propanol as a case study to illustrate the feasibility of the tandem process. We also discuss opportunities and challenges for converting CO2 using tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic approaches.

Keywords: electrocatalysis, CO2 conversion, thermocatalysis, tandem processes

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Received: 12 December 2022
Revised: 18 January 2023
Accepted: 27 January 2023
Published: 19 July 2023
Issue date: March 2024

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