Nowadays, there is a growing awareness of the great environmental impact caused by the enormous amounts of carbon dioxide emitted. Several alternatives exist to solve this problem, and one of them is the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide into methanol by using nanomaterials as catalysts. The aim of this alternative is to produce a value-added chemical, such as methanol, which is a cheaply available feedstock. The development of improved materials for this conversion reaction and a deeper study of the existing ones are important for obtaining higher efficiencies in terms of yield, conversion, and methanol selectivity, in addition to allowing milder reaction conditions in terms of pressure and temperature. In this work, the performance of copper, zinc, and zinc oxide nanoparticles in supported and unsupported bimetallic systems is evaluated in order to establish a comparison among the different materials according to their efficiency. For that, a packed bed reactor operating with a continuous gas flow is used. The obtained results indicate that the use of bimetallic systems combined with porous supports, such as zeolite and activated carbon, is beneficial, thus improving the performance of unsupported materials by four times.

The increasing emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has urged the scientific community to investigate alternatives to alleviate such emissions, being that they are the principal contributor to the greenhouse gas effect. One major alternative is carbon capture and utilization (CCU) toward the production of value-added chemicals using diverse technologies. This work aims at the study of the catalytic potential of different cobalt-derived nanoparticles for methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Thanks to its abundance and cost efficacy, cobalt can serve as an economical catalyst compared to noble metal-based catalysts. In this work, we present a systematic comparison among different cobalt and cobalt oxide nanocomposites in terms of their efficiency as catalysts for carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol as well as how different supports, zeolites, MnO₂, and CeO₂, can enhance their catalytic capacity. The oxygen vacancies in the cerium oxide act as carbon dioxide adsorption and activation sites, which facilitates a higher methanol production yield.

Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), has arisen as an alternative to the reduction of CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere by converting it into value-added products. CO₂ conversion to methanol presents certain drawbacks, such as high pressure and temperature conditions and, to solve these issues, new materials are being investigated. Among them, cobalt stands out due to its abundance and low price compared to noble metals. Cobalt and its oxides exhibit interesting electronic and magnetic properties and are being used as catalysts in a wide range of reactions. In this work, we present a systematic comparison of different cobalt and cobalt oxide nanocomposites in terms of their efficiency as catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol, and how porous and non-porous supports can enhance their catalytic capacity. For this purpose, a fixed bed reactor operating with continuous flow is used, under mild temperature (160–260 °C) and pressure (10–15 bar) conditions. Several parameters are measured to evaluate the efficiency of the catalysis: CO₂ conversion; space–time yield (STY), which indicates the methanol production yield per mass unit of catalyst and reaction time, and methanol selectivity, which evaluates the production of reaction side products such as carbon monoxide. How the adsorption capacity provided by the porous supports can enhance the catalytic capacity of cobalt and cobalt oxide is confirmed, as well as how porous supports such as zeolite and graphene clearly improve this capacity compared with a non-porous support such as silicon dioxide.

The increading emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere has urged the scientific community to investigate alternatives to alleviate such emissions being the principal contributor to the greenhouse gas effect. One major alternative is carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) towards the production of value-added chemicals using diverse technologies. This work aims at the study of the catalytic potential of different cobalt-derived nanoparticels for methanol syntheis from carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Thanks to its abundance and cost-efficacy, cobalt can serve as an economical catalyst compared to noble-metal-based catalysts. In this work, we present a systematic comparison among different cobalt and cobalt oxide nanocomposites in terms of their efficiency as catalysts for carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol as well as how different supports can enhance their catalytic capacity. The oxygen vacancies in the cerium oxide act as carbon dioxide adsorption and activation sites, which facilitates a higher methanol production yield.