著者

大山 聖一

出版者

一般社団法人 日本エネルギー学会

雑誌

日本エネルギー学会誌 (ISSN:09168753)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.74, no.3, pp.137-146, 1995-03-20 (Released:2010-06-28)

参考文献数

55

被引用文献数

5 6

---

The recent status of catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol was investigated. Although catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 requires H2 and energy, it shows much higher reaction rate than other CO2 conversion technologies. Especially, conversion to methanol is a promising technology because of its excellent characteristics as a fuel. Thermodynamically, lower temperatures and lower pressures are favorable for methanol synthesis from CO2 and higher temperatures are favorable for the reverse water gas shift reaction. Thus, a catalyst which is highly active below 473 K promises low-energy conversion to methanol. CO2 hydrogenation technology is classi-fied into a gas-phase synthesis and a liquid-phase synthesis from its reaction method. In the gas-phase synthesis, Cu/ZnO-based catalysts show space time yields comparable to those in the conventional methanol production process from syngas. The liquid-phase synthesis employing a homogeneous catalyst is expected to operate at lower temperatures than the gas-phase synthesis. In order to achieve efficient CO2 conversion to methanol, it is necessary to develop an active catalyst system at lower temperatures.