Oxygenated Fuel Products from Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams

由于化石燃料消耗量的增加，大气中的二氧化碳继续达到前所未有的水平，引起人们对气候变化和海洋酸化的关注。为了确保加拿大人（实际上是所有全球公民）的福祉，必须采用可持续实践的创新方法来减少社会的足迹。碳捕获和利用对于帮助全球经济到2050年实现净零排放和将全球气温上升限制在1.5°C以内至关重要。这个问题需要一个熟练的研究团队，致力于利用物理科学来挖掘清洁能源的合作空间，提高加拿大的卓越声誉。这项NSERC联盟资助将巩固温莎大学Marcus W. Drover教授和帝国石油有限公司之间的关系，使加拿大最大的能源生产商之一与一位正在寻求为可持续能源市场的工业应用提供新工具的早期职业研究员之间的知识转移。这些研究的目标是直接减少二氧化碳到含氧燃料——这是一种理想的转变，对加拿大发展碳中和经济具有重要意义。由此产生的氧化产物是有价值的——它们可以用于燃料电池，燃烧或与汽油混合。这种氧合物还可以用来增强燃料燃烧，从而减少废气排放——帝国石油公司在这一领域拥有既得利益。总的来说，这一提议将德罗弗教授、帝国石油有限公司和加拿大政府的利益结合起来，共同开发清洁和可持续的能源资源。

Due to increasing rates of fossil fuel consumption, atmospheric CO2 continues to reach unprecedented levels, causing concern regarding climate change and ocean acidification. To ensure the well-being of Canadians (and indeed, all global citizens), innovative approaches that engage sustainable practice must be adopted to lessen society's footprint. Carbon capture and utilization will be essential to help global economies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C. This problem calls for a skilled research team devoted to exploiting the physical sciences to unearth collaborative space in clean energy, enhancing Canada's reputation for excellence. This NSERC Alliance Grant will cement a relationship between Prof. Marcus W. Drover at the University of Windsor and Imperial Oil Ltd., enabling knowledge transfer between one of Canada's largest energy producers and an early-career researcher who is looking to provide new tools for industrial use in the sustainable energy marketplace. These studies target the direct reduction of CO2-to-oxygenated fuels - a desirable transformation, with significant importance to the development of a carbon-neutral economy in Canada. The resulting oxygenated products are valuable - they can be used in fuel cells, combusted, or mixed with gasoline. Such oxygenates can also be used to enhance fuel combustion and thereby reduce exhaust emissions - an area in which Imperial Oil has vested interest. Overall, this proposal pairs interests of Prof. Drover, Imperial Oil Ltd., and the Government of Canada to develop clean and sustainable energy resources.