Schneider, Jacob (2019): Decarbonizing construction through carbonation
Schneider, Jacob (2019): Decarbonizing construction through carbonation. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913867116.
„It is probably safe to assume that most of us are aware of the magnitude of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on an annual basis, on the order of billions of metric tons (gigatons), and that an appreciable percentage of that CO2 can be attributed to industrial emitters (1) such as cement plants, steel plants, and the aluminum industry, to name the most prominent ones. Cement plants alone contribute to over 5% of global CO2 emissions annually (2), which is reason enough to focus basic research efforts on reducing the carbon intensity of that industry, as for example, Ellis et al. (3) have done in PNAS, where they report findings on the production of cement using electrochemical synthetic methods driven by renewable energy and coproducing hydrogen gas—a valuable industrial raw material in its own right—via a proposed process that would epitomize the circular economy.“