Oxygenated Fuel Products from Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams

由于化石燃料消耗率的增加，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担忧。 为了确保加拿大人（实际上是所有全球公民）的福祉，必须采取可持续做法的创新方法，以减少社会足迹。碳捕获和利用对于帮助全球经济到2050年实现净零排放并将全球气温上升限制在1.5°C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。这个NSERC联盟赠款将巩固教授之间的关系。温莎大学和帝国石油有限公司的Drover，使知识转移之间的一个加拿大最大的能源生产商和一个早期的职业研究人员谁正在寻找提供新的工具，工业使用在可持续能源市场。这些研究的目标是将二氧化碳直接还原为含氧燃料-这是一种理想的转变，对加拿大碳中和经济的发展具有重要意义。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。 这种含氧化合物还可以用于增强燃料燃烧，从而减少废气排放-帝国石油公司在这一领域有既得利益。总的来说，这项提议将帝国石油有限公司的Drover教授的利益，与加拿大政府合作开发清洁和可持续能源。

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.