{"id":223918,"date":"2025-10-24T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/high-pressure-electrolysis-sustainably-converts-captured-co%e2%82%82-into-industrial-grade-ethylene"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:34:18","slug":"high-pressure-electrolysis-sustainably-converts-captured-co%e2%82%82-into-industrial-grade-ethylene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/high-pressure-electrolysis-sustainably-converts-captured-co%e2%82%82-into-industrial-grade-ethylene","title":{"rendered":"High-pressure electrolysis sustainably converts captured CO\u2082 into industrial-grade ethylene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-pressure-electrolysis-sustainably-converts-captured-coe28282-into-industrial-grade-ethylene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have unveiled a breakthrough system that could change the way we think about carbon emissions. Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41929-025-01411-9\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Catalysis<\/i><\/a> the researchers outline a system for converting captured carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) into industrial-grade ethylene, a commodity chemical essential to plastics, textiles, and construction. The work shows a direct path to transforming greenhouse gas emissions into valuable chemical products.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the environmental benefits, lead researcher Assistant Professor Xu Lu said key efficiencies in the system create an opportunity to turn the otherwise costly process of capturing CO<sub>2<\/sub> into a profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe designed and tested the system under realistic industrial conditions using captured, high-pressure CO\u2082,\u201d he said. \u201cOur results show captured carbon can be valorized into a valuable product with real economic potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have unveiled a breakthrough system that could change the way we think about carbon emissions. Published in Nature Catalysis the researchers outline a system for converting captured carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) into industrial-grade ethylene, a commodity chemical essential to plastics, textiles, and construction. The work shows a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223918","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}