CO2 hydrogenation to high-value products via heterogeneous catalysis

Run-Ping Ye; Jie Ding; Weibo Gong; Morris D Argyle; Qin Zhong; Yujun Wang; Christopher K Russell; Zhenghe Xu; Armistead G Russell; Qiaohong Li; Maohong Fan; Yuan-Gen Yao

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13638-9

CO₂ hydrogenation to high-value products via heterogeneous catalysis

Nat Commun. 2019 Dec 13;10(1):5698. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13638-9.

Authors

Run-Ping Ye^{1

2

3}, Jie Ding^{1

4}, Weibo Gong¹, Morris D Argyle⁵, Qin Zhong⁴, Yujun Wang⁶, Christopher K Russell^{1

7}, Zhenghe Xu⁸, Armistead G Russell⁹, Qiaohong Li², Maohong Fan^{10

11

12}, Yuan-Gen Yao¹³

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA.
² Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
⁴ School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210094, P.R. China.
⁵ Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 330 EB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R. China.
⁷ Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
⁹ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mason Building, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
¹⁰ Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA. mfan@uwyo.edu.
¹¹ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mason Building, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA. mfan@uwyo.edu.
¹² School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA. mfan@uwyo.edu.
¹³ Key Laboratory of Coal to Ethylene Glycol and Its Related Technology, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China. mfan@uwyo.edu.

Abstract

Recently, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, along with hydrogen from renewable resources, provide an alternative approach to synthesis of useful fuels and chemicals. People are increasingly interested in developing innovative carbon dioxide hydrogenation catalysts, and the pace of progress in this area is accelerating. Accordingly, this perspective presents current state of the art and outlook in synthesis of light olefins, dimethyl ether, liquid fuels, and alcohols through two leading hydrogenation mechanisms: methanol reaction and Fischer-Tropsch based carbon dioxide hydrogenation. The future research directions for developing new heterogeneous catalysts with transformational technologies, including 3D printing and artificial intelligence, are provided.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't