C-Cycle
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry
Abstract
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and so a major environmental pollutant. Energy production produces vast volumes of the gas that is released in to the atmosphere. While carbon dioxide is taken up by plants and converted into useful chemical buliding blocks such as sugars, deforestation, increasing urbanisation and an ever increasing demand to energy means that the carbon dioxide cycle is becoming increasingly unbalanced. Furthermore, global oil and gas supplies are decreasing at an alarming rate and these are the feedstocks of the energy and petrochemicals industries.In this project which is located at eight top UK universities, we intend to capture some of the carbon dioxide produced in industrial processes and reconvert it into chemical feedstocks using advanced materials technology and specifically designed catalysts. The aim is to develop a sustainable carbon economy through efficient recycling of waste materials: the C-Cycle. Recent UK government initiatives have placed the emphasis for waste management in the hands of the municipal incinerators (which produce carbon dioxide) with a move away from the environmentally harmful landfill that are used in many regions. Not only will this project directly address UK government policy in waste management, it will take it one step further by producing high value products from the process: as the saying goes where there's muck there's brass! .
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Philip Alan Gale (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Caltagirone C
(2010)
Bis-cation salt complexation by meso-octamethylcalix[4]pyrrole: linking complexes in solution and in the solid state.
in Organic & biomolecular chemistry
Edwards P
(2009)
Stabilisation of alkylcarbamate anions using neutral hydrogen bond donors
in Tetrahedron Letters
Description | We employed hydrogen bond donor groups such as diindolylureas to stabilise carbamate groups formed by reaction of amines with carbon dioxide. The research shows that these groups may be used to stabilise this CO2 adduct and hence may find application in carbon capture. |
Exploitation Route | These systems could be used is systems designed to scrub carbon dioxide from a gas stream. |
Sectors | Chemicals,Environment |