Recent developments in CO2-capture and conversion technologies
Chemo-biological systems for CO2 utilization
Anand Giri
2020-09-20
In the present era, global warming is a serious environmental concern, which is mainly caused by higher CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. In order to mitigate the CO2 level, it should be captured and converted. Plant, algae, and microbes present in nature have the capability to fix the atmospheric CO2, but in the industrial areas where CO2 concentration is high, the biological system cannot capture the whole CO2. Nowadays, various nanoporous materials, chemicals, and graphene oxide particles have been used to capture and convert CO2 into value-added products. The conversion of CO2 into chemicals and fuels using chemical, enzymatic, and electrochemical systems may offer a promising strategy to recycle a huge quantity of carbon. In this review, we discuss the recent advances in various methods used for CO2 capture and its conversion. However, various methods have been reported for CO2 capture and its conversion, but individually each of these methods has its own limitations, which makes their commercial usage more complex