Carbon Management Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Marks Northwestern University Considerable international concerns exist about global climate change and its relationship to the growing use of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide is released by chemical reactions that are employed to extract energy from fuels, and any regulatory policy limiting the amount of CO2 that could be released from sequestered sources or from energy-generating reactions will require substantial involvement of the chemical sciences and technology R&D community.
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He emphasized that effective implementation of any new energy technology would require extensive infrastructure development, and that any policy requiring stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations would depend on development and widespread global implementation of technologies that are not commercially available today. He identified a twofold chemical R&D focus that would enhance our ability to assess the extent and consequence of climate change and would contribute to the development of appropriate advanced technologies.
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Strategies suggested to accomplish the goals ranged from a system of renewable fuels that could avoid CO2 emissions to a system that would rely on fossil fuels with separation and sequestration of the CO2. Carol Creutz of Brookhaven National Laboratory reviewed the use of carbon dioxide as a starting material for organic synthesis, for potential industrial chemical applications, and as a feedstock for fuel production (see Chapter 5)
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spoke about industrial carbon management to permit the continued use of fossil fuels for energy. Industrial carbon management links processes for capturing the carbon content of fossil fuels while generating carbon-free energy products such as electricity and hydrogen and sequestering the resulting carbon dioxide.
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However, he argued that it is not economical to replace existing chemical plants, so financial incentives would be needed to commercialize improved technologies. The theme of efficient utilization of hydrocarbon resources was continued by Harold Kung from Northwestern University (Chapter 10)
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Manzer and Gruber indicated that industry needs scientists who can work across the boundaries of the disciplines, and others suggested that future success in carbon management would require broad efforts at understanding the chemistry of CO2 in both biological and geological contexts. The contributions in this report from the workshop speakers indicate that a program of carbon management would pose enormous challenges.
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