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Research

Integrated Carbon Capture & Conversion – ICCC

Carbon-based energy sources P₂O₅changed our world. Since the early 19^th century, they have been the foundation of industrial development that has helped billions of people rise from poverty to better living standards. However, such leaps in development have been realized at the cost of massive greenhouse gas emissions with known consequences for the global climate.

The limitation or reduction of CO₂ emissions as well as the use of CO₂ as an available, cheap C₁ raw material are therefore essential tasks with extraordinary ecological and economic potential. Integrated Carbon Capture & Conversion (ICCC) is an elegant and efficient process for integrated CO₂-adsorption and subsequent conversion to valuable chemical products. One promising use of CO₂ as a C₁ source is the catalytic hydrogenation to alcohols, which are already used as sustainable platform chemicals, fuel additives or potential H₂-storage molecules. If green hydrogen is used for the hydrogenation, the ICCC process offers unparalleled features: (I) CO₂-emission reduction by converting the pollutant to chemical value products and (II) chemical storage of electrical energy in the form of green hydrogen. Bifunctional heterogeneous catalysts are promising materials to achieve this goal.