Advances in CO2 Capture, Sequestration, and Conversion ACS Symposium Series

The earth's sustainable development is threatened by the energy exhaustion and rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 linked to global warming. One of the causes of the energy crisis and the increased atmospheric CO2 content could be the imbalance between the rapid consumption of fossil fuels due to anthropogenic activities and the slow formation of fossil fuels. An efficient method for counteracting the imbalance in the carbon cycle and keeping sustainable development should involve CO2 utilization and conversion. This book brings together recent advances in CO2 capture, sequestration, and conversion and consists of 14 peer-reviewed chapters, with emphasis on the photocatalytic conversion of CO2, chemical fixation of CO2, and CO2 reforming of methane. It also includes novel methods of CO2 reduction, such as selective hydrogenation in supercritical carbon dioxide and hydrothermal reduction of CO2, and the recent advances in CO2 capture and storage.

Dr. Fangming Jin is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her Ph.D. from Tohoku University in Japan. After that she became an assistant professor and then an associate professor at Tohoku University in Japan. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications, including peer-reviewed papers, patents, books, and book chapters. Prof. Jin is also a Visiting Professor at Tohoku University, a Fellow of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Tohoku University, and a Visiting scientist at RIKEN, Japan. Prof. Liang-Nian He received his Ph.D. from Nankai University in 1996 under the guidance of academician Ru-Yu Chen. He then worked as a Chinese postdoctoral fellow with academician Ren-Xi Zhuo at Wuhan University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (Japan) from 1999 to 2003 before joining Nankai University in April of 2003. In 2009, He was selected as a "Chutian Scholar " Professor. He is now a Professor of Chemistry at Nankai University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, from 2011). Dr. Yun Hang Hu received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Xiamen University. He is the inaugural Charles and Carroll McArthur Chair Professor at Michigan Technological University. He serves as the chair of the Energy and Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the president of the Hydrogen Storage Division of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), and is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).