Climate Change and Green Chemistry of CO2 Sequestration, 1st ed. 2021 Green Energy and Technology Series

The book comprises state-of-the-art scientific reviews on carbon management strategies in response to climate change. It provides in-depth information on topics relating to recent advances in carbon capture technology and its reuse in value added products. It features contributions of leading scientists and technocrats on topics including climate change and carbon sequestration, lowering carbon footprint CO₂ capture, low carbon imperatives in oil industry, CO₂ as refrigerant in cold-chain application, carbonic anhydrase-mediated carbon sequestration and utilization, chemical looping combustion with Indian coal, CO₂ conversion to chemicals, algae based biofuels, and carbon capture patent landscaping analysis. The contents of this book will be helpful for research scholars, post-graduate students, industry, agricultural scientists and policy makers/planners. 

Prof. Dr. (Mrs.) Malti Goel, a Physicist, served as Senior Advisor and Scientist ‘G’, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. Working in hierarchical positions, she headed the Inter-sectoral Science & Technology Advisory Committee division from 1998-2008. She was Programme Director for Atmospheric Sciences and showed exemplary leadership in multi-institutional project implementation in climate change, greenhouse gas monitoring & mitigation and CO2 sequestration. She steered thrust area programmes of Physical Sciences in promoting researches in the frontier areas of lasers, superconductivity and high energy physics. She became Emeritus Scientist, Indian National Science Academy in 2008. She was CSIR Scientific Pool’s Officer at IIT Delhi (1976) and also CSIR Emeritus Scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (2009-2013). Dr. Goel is the recipient of Gold Medal in M.Sc. Physics (1967) from BITS Pilani, India. She pursuedD.I.I.T and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics (1973) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Dr. Goel is a recipient of several awards, fellowships and appreciations including Medal for Excellence in Environment, Science and Technology (2006), Bharat Jyoti Award for outstanding contribution to Science & Society (2012), and Build India Corporate Award (2015). She is author and editor of 11 books, 31 book chapters and 275 scientific papers in journals of international repute and conferences. Dr. Goel is Fellow of National Environment Science Academy and IC Environment and Ecology, Kolkata. The Climate Change Research Institute is founded by her with a mission to create awareness and education about climate change control.

Prof. T. Satyanarayana is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Biological Sciences & Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India after superannuating from the Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi, New