Catalyst Development for hydrogenation of CO2 for energy storage

摘要

Renewable energy sources have been developed to provide more sustainable and additional environmental way to generate power and to overcome the CO2 emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels.However,the utilization of the renewables are challenging since they cannot produce electricity on demand compared to the conventional power plants which creates a lot of variations on the electric grids and on the load levels.To overcome the variation problems,Power-to-Gas technology has been proposed,in which electrical energy is converted into chemical energy and stored in the natural gas grid.This technology has higher storage capacity and discharge time than technologies currently in use such as batteries and pumped hydro storage.