Global Carbon Dioxide Recycling (eBook)

This brief describes the current critical situation of global warming and shows its solution by renewable energy use. The author has long studied the development of new materials with chemical functions and is renowned as the first advocate of power-to-gas. He established the technology to convert renewable energy to synthesized natural gas, methane by electrolytic hydrogen generation using surplus electricity from renewable energy, and subsequent methanation of carbon dioxide by reaction with hydrogen.

Koji Hashimoto was born in 1935 and received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 1966. He is currently a professor emeritus at Tohoku University and the Tohoku Institute of Technology. He has published more than 550 papers in scientific journals in addition to review articles and book chapters. He is an Electrochemical Society Fellow and an NACE International Fellow, and has won many awards, such as the Olin Palladium Award from the Electrochemical Society. 

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This brief describes the current critical situation of global warming and shows its solution by renewable energy use. The author has long studied the development of new materials with chemical functions and is renowned as the first advocate of power-to-gas. He established the technology to convert renewable energy to synthesized natural gas, methane by electrolytic hydrogen generation using surplus electricity from renewable energy, and subsequent methanation of carbon dioxide by reaction with hydrogen.In the first part of this brief, data on global warming and energy consumption are shown and analyzed from the author's keen point of view. The second part introduces the author's research results on key materials for global carbon dioxide recycling and constructed pilot plants based on them. Finally, an evidence-based solution to maintain sustainable development by using only renewable energy is described as a future prospect.This book is useful not only for researchersand students studying chemical engineering, materials, or energy, but also for general citizens who are interested in the global environment.