Tuesday, November 10, 2020
4:00 p.m.
on zoom
The role of catalytic reuse of CO2 in a circular carbon economy
By Jorge Gascon, Professor and Director at the KAUST Catalysis Center
Abstract
Since its inception in 2009, research into circular carbon economy (CCE) and technological solutions has been an integral part of KAUST’s portfolio. It includes CO2 capture, nature-based solutions, renewable energy and CO2 utilization. With the recent launch of the KAUST circular carbon initiative (CCI) we aim to connect more deeply the different strands of our CCE research In order to create a strong and well-informed network of researchers at different career stage and to proactively contribute to the ongoing efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in implementing a circular carbon economy platform.
In this presentation after briefly introducing the new KAUST initiative, I will focus on the main challenges associated with re-using CO2 and on the technological solutions we that we are developing at KCC.
About the speaker
Jorge Gascon is Professor and Director at the KAUST Catalysis Center. Gascon is a member of the board of the International Zeolite Association Commission on Metal-Organic Frameworks. He has been the recipient of the prestigious VENI (2010), VIDI (2013), ERC Starting (2013) personal grants and 2013 ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award. He is 2018 and 2019 Clarivate Analytics highly cited researcher.
His group at KAUST aims to develop and deploy sustainable technologies for the production of chemicals, energy carriers and new environmental applications. Process intensification, feedstock efficiency and reduction of energy usage are the main objectives. With an H-Index of 78 and over 21000 citations he has published over 250 journal articles, 9 patents and several book chapters.