Carbon cycle in advanced coal chemical engineering
This review summarizes how the carbon cycle occurs and how to reduce CO 2 emissions in highly efficient carbon utilization from the most abundant carbon source, coal. Nowadays, more and more attention has been paid to CO 2 emissions and its myriad of sources. Much research has been undertaken on fos...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 44; no. 15; pp. 549 - 5445 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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07.08.2015
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| Summary: | This review summarizes how the carbon cycle occurs and how to reduce CO
2
emissions in highly efficient carbon utilization from the most abundant carbon source, coal. Nowadays, more and more attention has been paid to CO
2
emissions and its myriad of sources. Much research has been undertaken on fossil energy and renewable energy and current existing problems, challenges and opportunities in controlling and reducing CO
2
emission with technologies of CO
2
capture, utilization, and storage. The coal chemical industry is a crucial area in the (CO
2
value chain) Carbon Cycle. The realization of clean and effective conversion of coal resources, improving the utilization and efficiency of resources, whilst reducing CO
2
emissions is a key area for further development and investigation by the coal chemical industry. Under a weak carbon mitigation policy, the value and price of products from coal conversion are suggested in the carbon cycle.
This review highlights possible routes, principle, and potential for the carbon cycle (CO
2
) in advanced coal chemical engineering. |
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| Bibliography: | Jie Feng was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. He received his bachelor's degree (1989) and PhD (1998) in Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology from Taiyuan University of Technology. After a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Monash University, Australia, and after a year as Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida, USA, he spent the next 15 years on the faculty of TUT as a Professor of Chemical Engineering. His current research is entirely focused on the design of coal-to-liquid fuels processes and scaling-up the reactor for coal/biomass gasification and optimizing traditional coal conversion processes. Qun Yi obtained his PhD degree from Taiyuan University of Technology (TUT) in 2013. Subsequently, he joined the research group of Prof. Wenying Li to work on clean coal technology. He went to Curtin University of Technology in Australia as a visiting scholar in 2014. His research focuses on system integration and design technology of coal conversion, and the lifecycle analysis of energy conversion systems. Wenying Li received her PhD from Dalian University of Technology in 1995. After a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College, London, UK, and after a year as Senior Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, she spent the next 17 years at the faculty of TUT as a Professor of Chemical Engineering. She cooperated with the Energy Systems Analysis Group at PEI in Princeton University, USA, for 3 months in 2013. Her current research is entirely focused on enabling the discovery and design of processes and catalysts for sustainable energy, including converting coal to liquid and fuels, providing clean conversion technology from lower rank coal and poor quality coal, clean and efficient catalytic pyrolysis and the gasification of lignite and biomass, and optimizing traditional coal conversion processes and integrating a carbon-based polygeneration system of carbon mitigation initiative. Kechang Xie is the former Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and a professor specialized in coal and chemical engineering. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2003) and a Foreign Associate of the NAE (2013) for understanding coal molecular structure and its reactivity and for leadership in the modern clean coal conversion industry. He graduated from Tianjin University in 1968, and gained his Master's degree at the Taiyuan Institute of Technology in 1981. From 1983 to 1985, he continued his study as a visiting scholar at the University of South Carolina in the United States. Between 1998 and 1999, he was engaged in doctoral dissertations at Shinshu University in Japan and was honored with PhD in Engineering in the field of energy. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c4cs00453a |