In industrial scale of Gas to Liquid (GTL) process in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, a part of reactor outlet gases such as CO2 and CH4 as side reaction products, is usually recycled. In this study, the influence of CO2 and CH4 on the performance and selectivity of Co-Ru/Al2O3 catalyst is investigated by injection of these gases (0-20 vol. % of feed) to the feed stream. The effect of temperatu...

The electrochemical conversion of CO2 and H2O into syngas using renewably generated electricity is an attractive approach to simultaneously achieve chemical fixation of CO2 and storage of renewable energy. Developing cost-effective catalysts for selective electroreduction of CO2 into CO is essential to the practical applications of the approach. We report a simple synthetic strategy for the pre...

The near-infrared nadir spectra measured by SCIAMACHY on-board ENVISAT contain information on the vertical columns of important atmospheric trace gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), and carbon dioxide (CO2). The scientific algorithm WFM-DOAS has been used to retrieve this information. For CH4 and CO2 also column averaged mixing ratios (XCH4 and XCO2) have been determined by simul...

Carbon dioxide is the major pollutant responsible for climate change, an unfortunate byproduct of powering our society with fossil fuels. There is currently great interest in applying renewable energy to capture and reduce CO2 to provide carbon-neutral fuels. This approach mimics natural photosynthesis, which utilizes CO2 for energy storage and as a structural building block. Achieving this goa...

The acetogen Clostridium thermoautotrophicum was cultivated under CO-dependent chemolithotrophic conditions. CO-dependent growth profiles and energetics indicated that supplemental CO2 was fundamental to efficient growth at the expense of CO. Overall product stoichiometry approximated 6.5CO----CH3CO2H + 3.5CO2 + 0.6 cell C + 0.5 unrecovered C. Initial CO/CO2 ratios of 2 to 4 yielded optimal dou...

By stepwise functionalization of a T-shaped ligand with amide and N-oxide groups, we obtained a MOF with drastically strengthened CO2-framework interactions, induced by a "open donor sites" (ODSs) effect, resulting in a high heat of adsorption and high CO2/CH4, CO2/CO and CO2/N2 separation selectivities at room temperature.

A recently developed model was used to study the CO/CO2 ratio inside a burning pulverized coal particle, to better understand the effect of bulk gas composition on the equilibrium partial pressure of reduced metal species at the surface of ash inclusions. The motivation was to improve the ability to model submicrometer particle formation by ash vaporization, as a function of furnace conditions....

Hydroformylation of cyclohexene was studied with a catalyst system of Ru3(CO)12 and LiCl using H2 and CO2 instead of CO in NMP. The influence of H2 and CO2 pressures on the total conversion and the product distribution was examined. It was shown that increasing total pressure of H2 and CO2 promoted the reverse water gas shift reaction and increased the yield of cyclohexanecarboxaldehyde. Its hy...

A strictly anaerobic, H2-utilizing bacterium, strain SL1, was isolated from the sediment of an acidic coal mine pond. Cells of strain SL1 were sporulating, motile, long rods with a multilayer cell wall. Growth was observed at 5-35 degrees C and pH 3.9-7.0. Acetate was the sole end product of H2 utilization and was produced in stoichiometries indicative of an acetyl-CoA-pathway-dependent metabol...