Photoelectrochemical and Enzymatic Conversion of CO2 into Fuels

A Shift Toward Net Zero Energy Landscape

Rohit Srivastava, Bishnu Bastakoti, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443292866
• Subtopic: Energy
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Photoelectrochemical and Enzymatic Conversion of CO2 into Fuels: A Shift Towards Net Zero Energy Landscape introduces a comprehensive guide on the effective utilization of renewable energy to convert CO2 into fuels or commodity chemicals, presenting new materials such as MXenes and phosphorenes that are now being used in the catalytic conversion of CO2. This book provides guidelines on how the structural variation of catalysts will impact the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, presenting a detailed mechanism of CO2 conversion through different conversion methods such as photo reduction, electrochemical reduction, photoelectrochemical reduction, and enzymatic reduction.This will be a welcomed resource for researchers, students, academicians, engineers, and environmental experts and agencies studying the effects and benefits of the conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels for sustainable and renewable energy. - Delivers a wealth of knowledge on cutting-edge technologies using low-cost abundant catalysts for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 - Focuses on the design and development of novel catalysts for electrochemical, photochemical, enzymatic, and artificial photosynthesis approaches for CO2 reduction into green fuel and value-added chemicals - Addresses major challenges and issues for greenhouse gases emission worldwide

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Electrochemical reduction of CO2
• Chapter 2 Photochemical reduction of CO2
• Chapter 3 Enzymatic reduction of CO2
• Chapter 4 Artificial photosynthesis: sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuels
• Chapter 5 Advances and mechanistic insights of perovskite oxide catalysts for photocatalytic and electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
• Chapter 6 Phosphorene-based catalyst for CO2 conversion
• Chapter 7 Polymer-based catalysts for CO₂ conversion
• Chapter 8 Transition metal-based single atom catalyst for CO2 conversion
• Chapter 9 Blue-titania catalyst for CO2 conversion
• Chapter 10 Advance carbon-based nanomaterial for CO2 conversion
• Chapter 11 MXenes for CO2 conversion to fuel: correlation between atomistic simulation, experimental and artificial intelligence
• Chapter 12 Semiconductor materials for CO2 conversion
• Chapter 13 Photobiological CO2 reduction: introduction and fundamental concept
• Chapter 14 Technoeconomic analysis of electrochemical energy production and storage using solar wind energy resources for CO2 reduction
• Chapter 15 Scalability aspects and real-world implementation of electrochemical and photoelectrochemical processes for CO2 reduction
• Index