Abstract
Over-reliance on non-renewable fossil fuel leads to steadily increasing concentration of atmospheric CO2, which has been implicated as a critical factor contributing to global warming. The efficient conversion of CO2 into useful product is highly sought after both in academic and industry. Herein, a novel conversion strategy is proposed to one-step transform CO2/H2O into syngas (CO/H2) in molten salt with electrolysis method. All the energy consumption in this system are contributed from sustainable energy sources: concentrated solar light heats molten salt and solar cell supplies electricity for electrolysis. The eutectic Li0.85Na0.61K0.54CO3/nLiOH molten electrolyte is rationally designed with low melting point (
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 92-104 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Power Sources |
Volume | 362 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 13 2017 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21476046 and 21306022), Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Heilongjiang Province of China (No. JJ2017JQ0045), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2013M540269) and Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China (No. LBH-TZ0417).