As part of OSU's efforts, they accumulated a body of reference works detailing research already accomplished on the subject of Carbon Dioxide recycling.
We reproduce, following below, a partial list of their collected references, and call your attention, especially, both to the mention of Sabatier, in research published in 1902, and to the citation: "Lunde, P.J. and Kester, F.L. Carbon Dioxide Methanation on a Ruthenium Catalyst, Ind. Eng. Chem., Process Des. Dev., 13(1):27-33, 1974."
More on Lunde will follow in a separate dispatch. But, here is the list of references demonstrating that we have a far greater understanding of how to profitably utilize the Carbon Dioxide by-product of our coal-use industries as the valuable raw material resource it truly is. We have an understanding of Carbon Dioxide's value that has, however, and for whatever reason, been occluded and subverted.
Joe the Miner
(Note, again: Mention of "Carbon Dioxide Reduction" means not just reduction in the amount of CO2, but the chemical reduction of it into it's elemental components, Carbon and Oxygen. - JtM)
Boyda, R.B., Lee, M.G., and Grigger, D.J., Sabatier Carbon Dioxide Reduction System for Space Station Freedom, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 921189, presented 22nd International Conference on Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA, July 13-16, 1992.
Forsythe, R.K., Verostko, C.E., Cusick, R.J., and Blakely, R.L., A Study of Sabatier Reactor Operation, in Zero "G", SAE Technical Paper Series No. 840936, presented 14th Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems, 1984.
Kashiwai, T., Matsumoto, H., Kamishima, N., Hatano, S., Nitta, K., and Ashida, A., Study of Oxygen Recovery Stystem using Reduction of Carbon Dioxide, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 951558, presented at 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Diego, CA, July 10-13, 1995.
Lunde, P.J. Modeling, Simulation, and Operation of a Sabatier Reactor, Ind. Eng. Chem., Process Des. Dev., 13(3), 226-232, 1974.
Lunde, P.J. and Kester, F.L. Carbon Dioxide Methanation on a Ruthenium Catalyst, Ind. Eng. Chem., Process Des. Dev., 13(1):27-33, 1974.
Noyes, G.P., Carbon Dioxide Reduction Processes for Spacecraft ECLSS: A Comprehensive Review, SAE Technical Paper Series No., 881042, presented at 18th Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems, San Francisco, CA, July 1988.
Noyes, G.P., and Cusick, R.J., An Advanced Carbon Reactor Subsystem for Carbon Dioxide Reduction, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 860995, presented 16th Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems, San Diego, CA, July 14-16, 1986.
Otsuji, K., Hanabusa, O., Sawada, T., Satoh, S., and Minemoto, M., An Experimental Study of the Bosch and the Sabatier CO2 Reduction Processes, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 871517, presented 17th Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA, July 1987.
Sabatier, P., and Senderens, J.B., Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci., 134, 689, 1902.
Samsonov, N.M., Kurmazenko, E.A., Gavrilov, L.I., Farafonov, N.S., Dokunin, I.V., Markin, S.V., Pavlova, T.N., Naumov, V.A., and Jakimenko, A.O., Results of Engineering Development of the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Assembly for a Space Station Integrated Life Support System, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 951557, presented at 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Diego, CA, July 10-13, 1995.
Samsonov, N.M. and et al, A Complex of Systems for Oxygen Recovery Aboard a Manned Space Station, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 932275, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, 1993.
Secord, T.C. and Bonura, M.S., Operational Ninety-Day Manned Test of Regenerative Life Support Systems, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 901257, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, 1990.
Son, C.H., and Barker, R.S., Comparative Test Data Assessment and Simplified Math Modelling for Sabatier CO2 Reduction Subsystem, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 921228, presented 22nd International Conference on Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA, July 13-16, 1992.
Strumpf, H.J., Chin, C.Y., Lester, G.R., and Homeyer, S.T., Sabatier Carbon Dioxide Reduction System for Long-Duration Manned Space Application, SAE Technical Paper Series No. 911541, presented 21st International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Francisco, CA, July 15-18, 1991.