{"id":137056,"date":"2022-03-18T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/conversion-process-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-cash"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:02:29","slug":"conversion-process-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/conversion-process-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-cash","title":{"rendered":"Conversion process turns carbon dioxide into cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/conversion-process-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-cash.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a promising electrochemical system to convert emissions from chemical and power plants into useful products while addressing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a two-step cascade reaction to convert <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+monoxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon monoxide<\/a> and then into <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/ethylene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ethylene<\/a>, a chemical used in everything from food packaging to tires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is in a transition to a low-carbon economy. Carbon dioxide is primarily emitted from energy and chemical industries. We convert carbon dioxide into ethylene to reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+footprint\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon footprint<\/a>.\u201d Wu said. \u201cThe research idea is inspired by the basic principle of the plug flow reactor. We borrowed the reactor design principle in our segmented electrodes design for the two-stage conversion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a promising electrochemical system to convert emissions from chemical and power plants into useful products while addressing climate change. UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a two-step cascade reaction to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}