Researchers around the world have committed substantial effort to determine how to convert carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight into electricity, mimicking photosynthesis to create sustainable fuel and fine chemicals. Inorganic catalysts are central to understanding carbon dioxide conversion processes, with molecular catalysts enabling the study and modification of catalytically active sites found in bulk systems. Remaining critical hurdles to widespread implementation of artificial photosynthetic technology are scalability and durability at the magnitude of commercial chemical processes, which will be the focus of this presentation. From this perspective, we will discuss methods for development and implementation of different inorganic catalysts for small molecule activation based on current understanding and research. An architecture for kg-scale carbon dioxide conversion to alcohols and other liquid products will be shown, to enable implementation and use the knowledge we have gained in research laboratories to improve global environmental sustainability.

Platform system for kg-scale carbon dioxide conversion and solar fuels production

2019 Spring National Meeting

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