Coupled CO2 Capture and Electrochemical Conversion

Berlinguette集团（UBC）和道达尔（一家国际能源公司）之间的联盟伙伴关系的总体目标是展示二氧化碳捕获和转化的耦合。该项目将设计和建造首个多电池碳酸氢盐电解槽（一种从二氧化碳捕获溶液中产生有用化学物质的设备），该电解槽与二氧化碳捕获装置集成在一起。这个碳捕获/转换装置将向道达尔和学术界提供在工业规模操作所需条件下获得的数据。该联盟项目还将培训年轻的加拿大科学家和工程师，为发展可再生能源和碳技术经济做出贡献。长期目标是将端到端的二氧化碳捕获和利用技术商业化，该技术利用二氧化碳和可再生能源为化学制造业生产燃料和前体。这种方法有可能创造一个数万亿美元的产业，将二氧化碳从环境责任转变为经济资产。由于加拿大在电解和反应堆工程领域拥有强大的学术和工业专业知识，以及联邦和省政府对减少大气中二氧化碳等温室气体的承诺，加拿大有望成为这一努力的全球领导者。加拿大还拥有可再生资源（水力/风能），最终需要为第一个商用碳酸氢盐电解槽提供动力，因此是未来扩展、测试和演示二氧化碳捕获和转换技术的理想地点。

The overarching goal of this Alliance partnership between the Berlinguette Group (UBC) and TOTAL (an international energy company) is to demonstrate coupled CO2 capture and conversion. The project will result in the design and construction of the first ever multi-cell bicarbonate electrolyzer stack (a device that produces useful chemicals from CO2 capture solutions) that is integrated with a CO2 capture unit. This carbon capture/conversion unit will provide TOTAL and the academic community with data obtained under conditions that are representative of those needed for operation at an industrial scale. The Alliance project will also train young Canadian scientists and engineers for careers that contribute to growing the renewable energy and carbon-tech economy. The long-term vision is to commercialize an end-to-end CO2 capture and utilization technology that uses CO2 and renewable energy to produce fuels and precursors for chemical manufacturing industries. This approach has the potential to create a multi-trillion-dollar industry that would transform CO2 from an environmental liability into an economic asset. Canada is poised to be a global leader in this effort because of Canadian's strong academic and industrial expertise in the fields of electrolysis and reactor engineering, as well as the commitment of federal and provincial governments to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases such as CO2. Canada also has the renewable resources (hydro/wind) needed to eventually power the first commercial bicarbonate electrolyzers, and is therefore a desirable location for future scaling, testing, and demonstration of a CO2 capture and conversion technology.