Methanation of carbon dioxide: an overview

Abstract

Although being very challenging, utilization of carbon dioxide (CO₂) originating from production processes and flue gases of CO₂-intensive sectors has a great environmental and industrial potential due to improving the resource efficiency of industry as well as by contributing to the reduction of CO₂ emissions. As a renewable and environmentally friendly source of carbon, catalytic approaches for CO₂ fixation in the synthesis of chemicals offer the way to mitigate the increasing CO₂ buildup. Among the catalytic reactions, methanation of CO₂ is a particularly promising technique for producing energy carrier or chemical. This article focuses on recent developments in catalytic materials, novel reactors, and reaction mechanism for methanation of CO₂.

Keywords

CO₂ methanation / hydrogenation / catalysis / methane / environmental science

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