The Royal Society of Chemistry are pleased to announce that this event will be moving online.
Welcome
Join us online in April 2021 for this addition to our Faraday Discussion series. For over 100 years and 300 meetings, Faraday Discussions have been the forefront of physical chemistry. Many of these Discussions have become landmark meetings in their field.We invite you to join us to discuss the topic of carbon dioxide utilisation and make your contribution to this cutting-edge dialogue alongside leaders in this field.
This meeting is for established scientists, post-graduate students and industrial researchers interested in carbon dioxide utilisation. Given the rapid expansion of global research into carbon dioxide utilisation, the unique format of the Faraday Discussions will allow for in-depth discussions and opportunities to establish new collaborations.
Professor Peter Styring
Chair,
Professor Michael North
Deputy Chair
Attendance
The Royal Society of Chemistry is keen to encourage and enable as many people as possible to attend our events, to benefit from the networking opportunities and the chance to hear talks from leaders in the field. If you would like to discuss accessibility, please contact us to discuss your requirements so that we can enable your attendance.
Format
Faraday Discussions remain amongst the only conferences to distribute the speakers’ research papers in advance, allowing the majority of each meeting to be devoted to discussion in which all delegates can participate. Following each meeting a written record of the discussion is published alongside the papers in the Faraday Discussions journal.Find out more about the Faraday Discussions in this video.
Themes
Since the Faraday Discussion on carbon dioxide utilisation was held in 2015, there has been a rapid rise in research output together with commercialisation.Our 2021 Discussion will focus on the following four themes:
Thermal catalytic conversion
In this session we will discuss using cascade processes to maximise efficiency and conversion, the development of systems that are reactive under low CO2 concentrations, whether we can produce robust and active catalysts for use in impure gas streams using Earth abundant and low-cost metals, and whether amine capture can be used to produce a product with real value.
Accelerated mineralisation
This session will discuss the use of gaseous and solid waste streams without pre-purification, chemical strategies to extract valuable and/or toxic metals from industrial waste before it is carbonated to give stable inorganics, the chemical and physical processes for waste carbonation versus virgin minerals, and methods and kinetics for coal carbonation.
Life cycle and upscaling
In this session, we will discuss scaling systems to real application quantities, reactor design and separation processes. We will also consider the development of robust life cycle analyses on reactions and processes and setting boundaries for these.
Emerging technologies
This session will include, but is not limited to, the plasmolytic, photo- & electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide, and battery technologies. We will discuss the means of increasing efficiency while maintaining conversion.
