Advances in carbon capture and utilisation: A new SCI virtual collection

SCI has published its latest virtual collection, looking at advances in carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

The virtual collection brings together papers on the topic from SCI’s journals including Energy Science & Engineering, Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, and the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. You can find the virtual collection here.

Reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one of the key ways of mitigating the impacts of climate change. A major part of that is to stop more fossil carbon entering the atmosphere by, for example, using less fossil fuel, or by capturing the carbon released by industrial processes. It also means attempting to lower the overall level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which will involve the use of carbon capture technology.

Re-use of the captured carbon is an important consideration too. Many chemical processes currently use fossil carbon both as a fuel and a feedstock. Replacing fossil fuels is one thing; finding an alternative to carbon feedstocks is harder. But replacing fossil feedstocks with a sustainable form of carbon is more realistic.

As such, capturing carbon from industrial processes or the air and reusing it as a feedstock could have a double impact, by reducing the carbon going into the atmosphere and reusing it to further reduce demand for fossil carbon in future. 

SCI’s magazine Chemistry & Industry has also been covering the topic of CCU for some time, and below is a related list of the recent coverage both from the print magazine and online.

Carbon capture and utilisation stories from C&I:

• Chemicals from CO2 (Premium content)
• CCU: Turning captured CO2 into paints and adhesives
• The case for Carbon capture and storage (CCUS) (Premium content)
• Flue2Chem: Ayrshire papermill leads early stage of ground-breaking project to recycle carbon emissions into household detergent
• Carbon capture and storage: Opportunities and challenges ahead
• CCUS: Carbon capture and hydrogen projects in line for billions in funding
• Carbon capture sorbent charges like a battery
• First carbon capture for Flue2Chem (Premium content)
• Vanadium captures carbon from air
• CO2 converted into carbon nanofibers (Premium content)
• The CO2 advantage (Premium content)
• Cambridge scientists convert CO2 and plastic into fuels
• Waste to chemicals (Premium content)
• From flue to consumer
• The technosphere: An overlooked store of carbon that is getting bigger (Premium content)
• Making things without using fossil carbon
• Converting waste carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals
• Carbon capture utilisation and storage: A look ahead (Premium content)
• CO2-derived e-fuels milestone

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