Abstract
This review highlights the recent work related to the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol and formic acid. Information related to the structural, mechanistic and kinetic aspects of the pyridinium and imidazolium catalyzed reduction processes is presented. The economic impact of these processes is delineated by calculating the cost per billion gallons of gasoline equivalence for methanol by three methods viz., electrochemical conversion, photoelectrochemical conversion, combined electrochemical conversion and thermal conversion. Our initial analysis shows that the last method may be the most economically feasible method under the existing technologies.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1284-1297 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Indian Journal of Chemistry - Section A Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical and Analytical Chemistry |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 9-10 |
| State | Published - Sep 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Inorganic Chemistry
Keywords
- Carbon dioxide reduction
- Electrochemical reduction
- Imidazolium catalysed reactions
- Photoelectrochemical reduction
- Pyridinium catalysed reactions