Abstract
Mitigating climate change involves getting more electricity from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power and others plus capturing and utilizing the emitted CO2 especially from stationary sources like thermal power stations, industries like cement, steel and other large scale emitting industries. This is very important climate action step in keeping the world within 1.5°C maximum average temperature rise needs aggressive steps by all nations to combat the challenges of climate change. At the 26th session of the COP 26 many countries announced their targets to achieve net zero by2050- 2070. Developing Country like India is moving to achieve its target mainly based on nature-based solutions focussing on renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) and locking the CO2 by increasing the green cover. Since coal continues to play an important role in developing Nations for some more time for energy need more action is needed on the extent of its intended use of Carbon Capture and Utilization or other removal technologies to achieve the net zero target and make the energy blue if not green. The greatest barrier to this is finding the budget cost by poor countries for investment is a real challenge. However, there are several pathways available by capturing the CO2 and utilise it into various value-added chemicals in a circular way to zero target. Some of the work carried out by our group on membrane separation of CO2 and conversion to chemicals such as carbamates, carbonates, carboxylic acid and waste bricks is presented.
Presenters
Palanivelu KandasamyProfessor, Centre for Climate Change and Environment/ School of Civil Engineering, VIT Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
CARBON
