A newly designed catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers efficiently converts captured carbon into valuable products — even in the presence of a contaminant that degrades the performance of current versions.
A newly designed catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers efficiently converts captured carbon into valuable products — even in the presence of a contaminant that degrades the performance of current versions.
The discovery is an important step toward more economically favourable techniques for carbon capture and storage that could be added on to existing industrial processes.
“Today, we have more and better options for low-carbon electricity generation than ever before,” says Professor David Sinton (MIE), senior author on a paper published in Nature Energy that describes the new catalyst.
“But there are other sectors of the economy that will be harder to decarbonize: for example, steel and cement manufacturing. To help those industries, we need to invent cost-effective ways to capture and upgrade the carbon in their waste streams.”
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Image: University of Toronto Engineering PhD students Rui Kai (Ray) Miao (left) and Panos Papangelakis (right) hold up a new catalyst they designed to convert captured CO2 gas into valuable products. Their version performs well even in the presence of sulphur dioxide, a contaminant that poisons other catalysts. (Photo by Tyler Irving / University of Toronto Engineering)
