Advances and Challenges in Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions have significantly increased, attracting the attention of the scientific community because these emissions are the main cause of the greenhouse effect. The rise in the CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere is due to many causes such as highly energetic industries and deforestation. For example, the power and steel industries are largely sustained by fossil fuels in the chemical sector. The steel industry alone is responsible for ~7% of the total CO₂ emissions because of the wide use of fossil fuels.

Despite the increasing proportion of renewable energy used for power generation and the acceleration towards reducing gas as a combustible in the steel industry, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that currently more than 80% of the world’s energy is still based on fossil fuel combustion, and in a mid-term framework, all large scale/industrial plants should employ some type of equipment in order to reduce CO₂ emissions. For this reason, a range of energy companies are developing and testing strategies of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate research that increases our understanding and knowledge of advances and challenges in carbon capture, utilisation and storage.

Dr. Antonio Fabozzi
Guest Editor

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• materials for CO₂ capture, utilization, storage
• adsorption/desorption enhanced
• CO₂ emission reduction