Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis

Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis provides a broad view of the gaps and opportunities related to the ongoing energy and chemistry transition, particularly in the science and technology, as well as complementary aspects, including societal ones, needed to unlock the future of renewable energy and chemistry through catalysis. It provides background and complementary aspects that are needed to understand the future scenarios to identify priorities and missing aspects in technologies and scientific background, and to create an open mind approach in science and technology to unlock the renewable energy and chemistry future. The book focuses on catalysis and complements the review articles currently available in the literature. It provides general knowledge, allowing the reader to understand the fast-evolving scenario better and, in turn, identify opportunities and needs.

Part I: The transformative scenario and S&T backgrounds Section 1: The Changing Scenario for Energy and Chemistry and its Impact on Catalysis 1. Set the scene: Solar-to-X technologies and their essential role in a resilient and low-carbon future 2. New trends and challenges for catalysis, fostering the need for innovative directions 3. The role of hydrogen, e-fuels and solar fuels in energy decarbonisation scenarios Section 2: Sustainable Energy, Policy, Societal and Educational Aspects 4. Renewable fuels and chemicals from the sun: innovation in artificial photosynthesis research5. The climate mitigation potential of CO2 Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies 6. Solar fuels and chemicals technologies: A roadmap for innovation Section 3: The industrial perspective and case examples 7. An industrial-oriented perspective: opportunities and challenges for the transition to a new sustainable energy system 8. The Energy Transition: A Paradigm Shift from Emissions to Resources with CO2 as a Critical Resource Among Others 9. The challenge of energy transition for chemical industries, the case example of Casale SA Part II: The science and technology advances Section 1: Catalysis and Technologies for Decarbonisation and Closing the Carbon Cycle 10. Chemical engineering advances to defossilize and close the carbon cycle in industrial processes 11. Catalysis in process electrification 12. Sustainable catalytic processes based on renewable energy. The case of SAF. 13. From nanoscale to single atoms in CO{sub|2} catalytic conversion 14. Operando methods to study carbon dioxide conversion driven by renewable energy sources 15. Unlocking the potential of plasma catalysis Section 2: Catalysis for harvesting solar energy 16. From lab to large-scale devices for producing solar fuels 17. Water Splitting Using Semiconductor Photocatalysts 18. The Potential of Photo(electro)catalytic Hybrids for Solar-driven Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 19. Design of photo-electro-catalytic devices for solar fuel generation from CO{sub|2} and N{sub|2} 20. Toward innovative photothermal catalysis 21. Metal-organic framework materials in photo (electro) catalytic applications