title: Carbon dioxide recycling: emerging large-scale technologies with industrial potential.
abstract: This Review introduces this special issue of ChemSusChem dedicated to CO(2) recycling. Its aim is to offer an up-to-date overview of CO(2) chemical utilization (inorganic mineralization, organic carboxylation, reduction reactions, and biochemical conversion), as a continuation and extension of earlier books and reviews on this topic, but with a specific focus on large-volume routes and projects/pilot plants that are currently emerging at (pre-)industrial level. The Review also highlights how some of these routes will offer a valuable opportunity to introduce renewable energy into the existing energy and chemical infrastructure (i.e., "drop-in" renewable energy) by synthesis of chemicals from CO(2) that are easy to transport and store. CO(2) conversion therefore has the potential to become a key pillar of the sustainable and resource-efficient production of chemicals and energy from renewables.
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, ICL, C2P2 UMR 5265 LCOMS (CNRS-CPE Lyon-Univ. Lyon 1), Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, BP 2077, 69616 Villeurbanne cedex, France. quadrelli@cpe.fr
authors.forename: Elsje Alessandra
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Quadrelli
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Centi
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Duplan
authors.forename: Siglinda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perathoner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000379:methods*; D008903:Minerals / Q000737:chemistry; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D059027:Recycling / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008903:Minerals; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide