{"id":162456,"date":"2024-05-16T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=162456"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:57:59","slug":"convert-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/biotechnology\/convert-co2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Researchers Convert CO2 to Methanol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two Mexican researchers have set themselves the task of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into methanol<\/strong>, which would simultaneously mitigate several pollution problems and bring benefits to certain industrial sectors and the population, as well as improve people\u2019s quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently two ways of reducing the carbon emissions that affect the environment: capturing CO2 and converting the compound<\/strong>, although these are ideally part of a single process, explains Carolina Orona<\/a> from the Institute of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Manufacturing.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research by Orona and Alejandro Montesinos-Castellanos<\/a> focuses on using thermocatalysis to convert CO2 directly into methanol<\/strong>, a compound that can be used both as a fuel and to produce other chemical products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, CO and H2 from fossil resources are mixed together in large-scale production of methanol. <\/strong>However, directly transforming CO2<\/a> into methanol is a more attractive way of reducing emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a global issue that\u2019s already at the top of agendas around the world, especially since the Paris Agreement, which is where this need to reduce emissions comes from. However, you have to understand that this problem can\u2019t be attacked from a single perspective: we need to add to these action plans<\/strong>,\u201d said the researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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