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.

Key words： CO₂ methanation; hydrogenation; catalysis; methane; environmental science

Acknowledgments

Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21006068, 21050110425), Seed Foundation of Tianjin University (60303002), and the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B06006) is gratefully acknowledged.

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