ACS Symposium: CO2 Utilization


 
We reported that a symposium had been held this year, with surprisingly little public notice, given the alarmism that has been fostered about the topic of global warming and the culpability of supposed "greenhouse" gasses in the process, on the recycling and reuse of Carbon Dioxide, which can arise as a much-maligned by-product from our coal-use industries.
 
Such symposia have been held, in near-secrecy it would seem, for quite some time now, as this reference will attest.
 
Some excerpts from the enclosed link:

"ACS Symposium #809: Co2 Conversion and Utilization

Held March, 2000, in San Francisco, CA
Chunshan Song, Editor  

 1. CO2 Conversion and Utilization: An Overview, Chunsan Song

2. CO2 Mitigation and Fuel Production, M. Steinberg

3. CO2 Emission Reductions: An Opportunity for New Catalytic Technology, Leo E. Manzer

Synthesis of Organic Chemicals

 

4. Key Issues in Carbon Dioxide Utilization as a Building Block for Molecular Organic Compounds in the Chemical Industry, Michele Aresta and Angela Dibenedetto

 

5. Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Methanol to Dimethyl Carbonate Using Phosphoric Acid-Modified Zirconia Catalysts, Yoshiki Ikeda, Yutaka Furusawa, Keiichi Tomishige, and Kaoru Fujimoto

 

6. Utilization of Carbon Dioxide for Direct, Selective Conversion of Methane to Ethane and Ethylene with Calcium-Based Binary Catalysts, Ye Wang and Yasuo Ohtsuka

 

7. Copolymerization of Carbon Dioxide, Propylene Oxide, and Cyclohexene Oxide by an Yttrium-Metal Coordination Catalyst System, Chung-Sung Tan, Char-Fu Chang, and Tsung-Ju Hsu

 

8. The Role of CO2 for the Gas-Phase O2 Oxidation of Alkylaromatics to Aldehydes, Jin S. Yoo

 

9. Effective Conversion of CO2 to Valuable Compounds by Using Multifunctional Catalysts, Tomoyuki Inui

 

10. Supported Copper and Manganese Catalysts for Methanol Synthesis from CO2-Containing Syngas, K. Omata, G. Ishiguro, K. Ushizaki, and M. Yamada

 

11. Catalytic Reduction of CO2 into Liquid Fuels: Simulating Reactions under Geologic Formation Conditions, D. Mahajan, C. Song, and A. W. Scaroni

 

12. Methane Dry Reforming over Carbide, Nickel-Based, and Noble Metal Catalysts, Abolghasem Shamsi

 

13. A Highly Active and Carbon-Resistant Catalyst for CH4 Reforming with CO2: Nickel Supported on an Ultra-Fine ZrO2, Jun-Mei Wei, Bo-Qing Xu, Jin-Lu Li, Zhen-Xing Cheng, and Qi-Ming Zhu

 

14. CO2 Reforming of Methane over Ru-Loaded Lanthanoid Oxide Catalyst, Kiyoharu Nakagawa, Shigeo Hideshima, Noriyasu Akamatsu, Na-oko Matsui, Na-oki Ikenaga, and Toshimitsu Suzuki

 

15. CO2 Reforming and Simultaneous CO2 and Steam Reforming of Methane to Syngas over CoxNi1-xO Supported on Macroporous Silica-Alumina Precoated with MgO, V. R. Choudhary, A. S. Mamman, B. S. Uphade, and R. E. Babcock

 

16. Low-Temperature CH4 Decomposition on High-Surface Area Carbon Supported Co Catalysts, Z.-G. Zhang, K. Haraguchi, and T. Yoshida

 

17. Effects of Pressure on CO2 Reforming of CH4 over Ni/Na-Y and Ni/Al2O3 Catalysts, Chunshan Song, Srinivas T. Srimat, Satoru Murata, Wei Pan, Lu Sun, Alan W. Scaroni, and John N. Armor

 

18. A Comparative Study on CH4-CO2 Reforming over Ni/SiO2-MgO Catalyst Using Fluidized-and Fixed-Bed Reactors, A. Effendi, Z.-G. Zhang, and T. Yoshida

 

19. Effects of Pressure on CO2 Reforming of CH4 over Rh/Na-Y and Rh/Al2O3 Catalysts, Srinivas T. Srimat and Chunshan Song

 

20. Methane Reforming with Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen under Atmospheric and Pressurized Conditions Using Fixed- and Fluidized-Bed Reactors, Keiichi Tomishige, Yuichi Matsuo, Mohammad Asadullah, Yusuke Yoshinaga, Yasushi Sekine, and Kaoru Fujimoto

 

21. Computational Analysis of Energy Aspects of CO2 Reforming and Oxy-CO2 Reforming of Methane at Different Pressures, Wei Pan and Chunshan Song

 

22. Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 with H2O on Various Titanium Oxide Catalysts, Hiromi Yamashita, Keita Ikeue, and Masakazu Anpo

 

23. Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 with Gas-Diffusion Electrodes Fabricated Using Metal and Polymer-Confined Nets, K. Ogura, H. Yano, and M. Nakayama".

We'll presume some of the more technical phrases, and their significance, such as "Reforming" and "Methanol Synthesis", to be familiar by now from our earlier posts, and will not explicate them herein.

There is more, but these selections should illustrate the, apparently well-known in certain circles, potential that exists to utilize the Carbon Dioxide which arises from our coal use in valuable and profitable ways.

Just like the liquid fuel, petroleum, "shortage", which could be profitably resolved by converting our abundant coal into liquid fuels, and leveraging coal conversion technology to begin employing biological feed stocks,  the Carbon Dioxide "danger" is a false belief artificially fostered by special interests who would be somehow served by a reduction in coal's use and perceived importance.  

There is no real Carbon Dioxide "problem". There is, however, a great CO2 opportunity. Carbon Dioxide is a valuable by-product of our coal-use industries. We should reward and encourage those enterprises which make it for us