Summary

Carbon Dioxide Reduction through Advanced Conversion and Utilization Technologies covers fundamentals, advanced conversion technologies, economic feasibility analysis, and future research directions in the field of CO2 conversion and utilization.

This book emphasizes principles of various conversion technologies for CO2 reduction such as enzymatic conversion, mineralization, thermochemical, photochemical, and electrochemical processes. It addresses materials, components, assembly and manufacturing, degradation mechanisms, challenges, and development strategies. Applications of conversion technologies for CO2 reduction to produce useful fuels and chemicals in energy and industrial systems are discussed as solutions to reduce greenhouse effects and energy shortages. Particularly, the advanced materials and technology of high temperature co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2 to produce sustainable fuels using solid oxide cells (SOCs) are reviewed and the introduction, fundamentals, and some significant topics regarding this CO2 conversion process are discussed.

This book provides a comprehensive and clear picture of advanced technologies in CO2 conversion and utilization. Written in a clear and detailed manner, it is suitable for students as well as industry professionals, researchers, and academics.

Choice Review

Carbon management is becoming ever more important because the costs of climate change have been rising with the increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A variety of methods to extract products of value from carbon dioxide exist; the challenge is to develop technologies that are commercially profitable. Although photosynthesis is the most important process for converting carbon dioxide into products of significant value, this book reports on process engineering developments involving solid oxide cells. A unifying focus throughout concerns the production of sustainable fuels through high temperature coelectrolysis of water and carbon dioxide using solid oxide cells. Chapter 2 provides a detailed analysis of carbon dioxide structure, chemistry, thermodynamics, and kinetics as related to various applications. Specific methods to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere are described by Zheng (Tsinghua Univ.) and colleagues in most of the succeeding chapters, which include detailed accounts of the many processes that have been investigated through their research. The economics of some of the more important products made from carbon dioxide are the focus of chapter 15, and new directions for research provide the final statement in chapter 16. References are provided at the end of most chapters, and the single-level index is helpful for navigation within the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --Larry E. Erickson, emeritus, Kansas State University