They have found a way to remove carbon dioxide from factory emissions

Using carbon dioxide directly from impure sources can end up being beneficial, helping us win the race on climate change.

If we want to meet the objectives of limiting the increase in temperatures due to climate change to only 1.5 ° C, the world must make a series of decisions but science must also advance enough to help us in such an endeavor.

Luckily, now a team of researchers has developed a compound that has allowed them to collect carbon dioxide from factory smokestacks and use it to make commercially valuable chemicals, boosting the green economy.

At Press release of the discovery it has been pointed out that “we have taken a major step towards solving a crucial challenge associated with the long-awaited circular carbon economy by developing an effective catalyst”.

This catalyst comes in the form of a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without undergoing any permanent chemical change.

According to the study published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry, have found that the formation of cyclic carbonates can be catalyzed while removing carbon dioxide from factory flue gases.

This finding goes to say that useful articles, battery electrolytes and pharmaceutical precursors can be manufactured. using the same technique used to clean contaminants from manufacturing facilities.

This new organic framework can be used to catalyze the cyclical production of carbonate from biogas, a mixture of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases produced by the decomposition of organic matter.

They comment that “Being able to directly use carbon dioxide from impure sources saves the cost and energy of separating it before it can be used to make cyclic carbonates, which will be a boon for the green economy”, It is indicated in the investigation.