Provides integrated information and a perspective on innovative technologies for the use of carbon dioxide. It is suitable for use as a textbook for courses in chemical engineering and chemistry. It is also of great interest as a general reference for those involved with technologies for avoiding carbon dioxide production and for economists.
Dedication.- Preface.- Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- I: Emission. 1. Carbon Dioxide Emission and Merchant Market in the European Union.- II: Separation. 2. CO2 Separation Technologies.- III : Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. 3. Particle Formation Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. 4. Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC).- 5. Homogeneous Catalysis in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.- 6. Heterogeneous Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.- 7. Polymer Synthesis in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-. 8. Modification of Polymers in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.- IV: Chemical Utilization. 9. Carbon Dioxide Fixation into Organic Compounds.- 10.Linear Organic Carbonates.- 11. Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide.- 12. Carbon Dioxide Reduction to C1 or Cn Molecules.- V: Biological Utilization. 13. Biological Utilization of Carbon Dioxide: the Marine Biomass Option.- 14. Energy from Biomass.- VI: Assessment of CO2 Utilization and Industrial Perspective.- 15. Methanol Production from Natural Gas: Assessment of CO2 Utilization in Natural Gas Reforming.- 16. Carbon Dioxide as a Building Block for Organic Intermediates: an Industrial Perspective.