Researchers in Japan unveil a safe and efficient method to generate fuel from CO2
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Researchers at Waseda University School of Advanced Science and Engineering, including 2nd-year graduate student Kensei Yamada and Prof. Yasushi Sekine, announced that they succeeded in developing a completely new method to recycle carbon dioxide, using hydrogen energy derived from carbon dioxide and renewable energy and catalyzing a chemical reaction at 100 degrees lower-than-normal temperature.
It is expected that this method will greatly contribute to social reform for global warming control and fossil resource consumption control, as it enables recycling carbon dioxide as much as desired.
Researchers found that carbon dioxide can be efficiently recycled into carbon oxide and methane by combining particles of metal ruthenium with cerium oxide, and applying a weak direct electric field to it.
Until now, there has been no process that can safely recycle as much as desired at such low temperatures, and this discovery is a technology that can greatly contribute to the recycling of carbon dioxide and the reduction of fossil resource consumption.
In the future, it is intended to collect and utilize carbon dioxide actually discharged from factories.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/01/22/co2/