Catalysis and reactor engineering for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization processes have garnered significant interest to both mitigate anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and increase the revenue of many chemical and fuel production processes. Low-cost renewable electricity provides impetus for exploring electrochemical methods to recycle CO₂ in cost-competitive and sustainable ways. Researchers have experimentally demonstrated CO₂ transformations into a variety of industrially relevant materials. Techno-economic assessments inform that the simplest transformations, such as generation of carbon monoxide (CO), appear to be the most feasible in the near future. Yet, widespread commercialization of this nascent technology has not occurred due to a number of challenges that include synthesizing stable and active catalyst materials, understanding activity-Ưdriving force relationships, identifying appropriate reactor configurations, and developing comprehensive process models.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Brown, Steven M.(Steven Michael)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Fikile R. Brushett.

• Chemical Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124584

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