One of the major challenges of present research is the environmentally friendly production of raw materials for fuel production and chemical synthesis. Reducing the continuously increasing CO2 emission turned out to be an indispensable improvement. In addition to improving the energy conversion efficiency and carbon capture technologies, the utilization of CO2 as feedstock for chemical synthesis has gained increasing interest. Its almost unlimited availability makes CO2 an interesting feedstock for production of CO, which can subsequently be used for industrial synthesis of hydrocarbons, methanol and dimethyl ether as well as in oxo-synthesis. In this work, two promising ways of CO2 utilization are presented: CO2 is either converted by methane (dry reforming (DRM)) producing CO and H2 (syngas) or hydrogenated to short-chain hydrocarbons (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS)).

Utilization of CO2 as feedstock in C1 chemistry

249th National Meeting (2015)

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