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Biological Conversion Of Carbon Dioxide To Value-Added Chemicals, Owen James Mcgrath Jan 2021

Biological Conversion Of Carbon Dioxide To Value-Added Chemicals, Owen James Mcgrath

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As Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere continue to rise due to human intervention, there is increased urgency to take actions to mitigate the potential ramifications. Many countries have instituted a CO2 tax and have provided funding to finding potential solutions to our growing CO2 problem. Further investigating CO2 capture, sequestration, and utilization is key to combating rising CO2 levels and methods being investigated have increased substantially in recent years. Converting CO2 into fuels and value-added chemicals provides a unique opportunity to create materials of value from a substance that is being …

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Review Of Established And Emergent Methods For The Production Of C4 Olefins, James Matthew Koval Jan 2020

Review Of Established And Emergent Methods For The Production Of C4 Olefins, James Matthew Koval

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Current production of C4 olefins is dominated by naphtha cracking and butane dehydrogenation, but significant research interest is developing in alternate feedstocks due to an abundance of inexpensive natural gas and bioethanol. The current C4 olefin production methods are costly, make use of already-depleted petroleum resources, and are often hazardous to workers, which forms the impetus for investigation into alternative methods and assessment of their viability as a future means of olefin production. Methods of natural gas conversion to higher order hydrocarbons are discussed, including Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and oxidative methane coupling, each of which could form the first …

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