The National Academies convened a committee to develop a research and development (R&D) agenda needed for commercialization of technologies that can transform carbon waste streams into products at a reasonable cost and a net lifecycle reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The committee was asked to identify emerging technologies and approaches for carbon utilization; analyze and develop factors and criteria associated with making technologies viable at a commercial scale; assess the major technical challenges associated with increasing the commercial viability of carbon utilization technologies; assess current research efforts, including basic and applied; and recommend priority research needs.<br/><br/>Carbon utilization technologies may play a critical role in dealing with global carbon emissions. Carbon utilization is based on the notion that waste carbon need not be a waste product to be sequestered, but instead is a resource to be capitalized upon, forming the feedstock for products that have market value, such as fuels, building materials, plastics or other useful solids, chemicals or animal feed. This presentation will provide an overview of the committee’s final report <i>Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status and Research Needs </i>and present the findings and priority research needs.

Gaseous carbon waste streams uilization: Status and research needs

2019 Spring National Meeting

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