Carbon dioxide as a resource and fuel

Jan Faktor

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The persistent increase of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) levels in the atmosphere is a very actual topic and an alarming problem of the modern world. Set of new technologies is being introduced to tackle this situation. Useful utilization or sequestration of CO2 by capturing it from the industrial sources of air pollution or the atmosphere itself, can be applied in many different ways as resource/feedstock and fuel, e.g. for power generation, production of chemicals, fourth-generation biofuels, as well as carbon capture storage (CCS) for example method of carbon mineralization that can be used in agriculture, food and building industry. CO2 transformation is one of the important instruments on how to reduce global warming. However, many obstacles as high costs, need for further development of technologies and lack of governmental support lye in its way.This Bachelor’s Thesis entitled “Carbon Dioxide as a Resource and Fuel” was written in a form of literature review mostly based on information from scientific articles published by various well-established scientific web databases as well as on numerous reports provided by different international organizations. The Thesis reviewed, compared, and summarized facts concerning carbon capture and utilization (CCU) and CCS. It was divided into four main chapters where each of these was dedicated to a particular part of the process from capture storage, its transportation & storage to utilization and last chapter of this Thesis was mainly focused on outlooks of these technologies.

Keywords

CO2 storage, carbon capture and storage, negative emissions technologies, carbon utilisation, carbon mineralization, advanced biofuels

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 5. 2020

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Bc. Ing. Tatiana Ivanova, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences

Bachelor programme / field:
Tropical Agriculture / International Cooperation in Agriculture and Rural Development