Catalytic carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol: A review of recent studies

Hydrogen Utilization in Green Fuel Synthesis via CO2 Conversion to Methanol over New Cu-Based Catalysts

“…CO2 hydrogenation to methanol by using Cu-based catalytic systems promoted by several oxides/carriers has been widely investigated in literature [3,5,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][27][28][29][30][31][32], although very few examples of multicomponent CuO-ZnO-CeO2 and CuO-ZnO-CeO2-ZrO2 systems are still present [25,26,33,34,41,42].…”

“…Cu-based catalysts suffer from detrimental effects of the water produced during catalyst activation and reaction, which inhibits catalytically active sites through the irreversible oxidation of Cu + species to Cu 2+ , leading to a loss of interfacial area and accelerating the catalyst sintering and the synthesis rate decay [18]. On this address, in the past decades, significant effort has been devoted to improve the properties of Cu-based catalysts by the use of promoters and carriers/supports [19][20][21][22][23]. Several metal oxides are reported in literature for improving the catalytic performance of copper-based catalysts, in term of activity, selectivity, and stability [24][25][26][27][28][29], also enhancing CO 2 adsorption with respect to un-promoted systems.…”

Organic reactions for the electrochemical and photochemical production of chemical fuels from CO2 – The reduction chemistry of carboxylic acids and derivatives as bent CO2 surrogates

“…Several of these reactions are successfully performed by transition-metal catalyzed hydrogenations and although important, these reactivities remain outside the scope of the current discussion and have been described elsewhere [9][10][11][12][13].…”

Methanol and dimethyl ether from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide: Alternative fuels production and life-cycle assessment

“…The result of these reactions is dependent on the catalyst, operating conditions and reaction time. The products of carbon dioxide hydrogenation can include; hydrocarbon fuels, formamides, carboxylic acids, methanol and more (Jessop et al, 2004;Gnanamani et al, 2015;Jadhav et al, 2014). Due to its low production costs, well established infrastructure and advanced processing technology, methanol is an ideal candidate for the conversion of CO 2 with H 2 (Tremel et al, 2015).…”