Today, achieving sustainability is a significant challenge for humanity, with minimizing our environmental impact and striving for carbon neutrality being crucial goals. Unfortunately, the production of many essential chemicals still results in high carbon emissions.
However, a collaborative research team from Doshisha University and Daikin Industries, Ltd., Japan, has been working on an innovative strategy to produce C2H2 using carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) as raw materials.
Their recent study, published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, outlines an approach that involves the electrochemical and chemical conversion of CO2 into C2H2 using high-temperature molten salts, specifically chloride melts. The process utilizes metal carbides as a crucial component in the conversion.
“Our strategy involves converting CO2 into metallic carbides like CaC2 and Li2C2, which then react with H2O to produce C2H2 gas,” explains Dr. Suzuki, one of the researchers involved in the study.
2024-03-27 07:00:04
Link from phys.org