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Electrified CO2 valorization driven by direct Joule heating of catalytic cellular substrates

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 466, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.143154

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Electrification; Joule heating; CO2 valorization; Reversewater-gas shift; CO2 reforming of methane; Open-cell foam

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The growing concern for the environment has led to the development of catalytic CO2 valorization as a solution to reduce the carbon footprint of valuable chemical products. Electrification of CO2 conversion processes, such as CO2 reforming of methane and reverse water-gas shift, offers a technological solution to reduce unwanted CO2 emissions. A promising approach using catalytically activated open-cell foams as Joule heating substrates has demonstrated excellent catalytic and electrical stability for direct electrification of these processes.
The growing environmental concerns have driven catalytic CO2 valorization as a forward-looking solution to mitigate the carbon footprint of valuable chemical products. CO2 conversion processes into synthesis gas, such as CO2 reforming of methane (CRM) or reverse water-gas shift (RWGS), may have a strategic role for the future sustainable production of chemicals and energy carriers. However, fuel combustion to supply the heat of the associated endothermic reactions would result in unwanted CO2 emissions, frustrating the overall objective. Electrification of the endothermic processes may represent the technological solution to such an issue. Here we report a promising approach for the direct electrification of the CO2 reforming of methane (eCRM) and reverse water-gas shift (eRWGS) processes in washcoated structured reactors. We employ catalytically activated open -cell foams that provide optimal heat and mass transfer properties and serve as Joule heating substrates for the catalytic conversion of CO2 via reaction with methane or hydrogen. The proposed reactor system with Joule -heated Rh/Al2O3-coated foam exhibited excellent catalytic and electrical stability for more than 75 h, oper-ating up to 800 degrees C and approaching equilibrium conversion at high space velocity, i.e., GHSV of 600 and 100 kNl/kgcat/h for eRWGS and eCRM, respectively. Such a reactor concept has potential to ensure remarkably low specific energy demand for CO2 valorization. Assuming an optimized process configuration approx. 0.7 kWh/ Nm3CO2 is calculated for eRWGS. By replacing fuel combustion with Joule heating driven by renewable electricity, the electrified CO2 valorization processes provide an important approach for dealing with the intermittent nature of renewable sources by storing the energy in chemicals with a low carbon footprint.

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