Assessment of enhanced activity of co-integration pathways for CO2 capture and CO2 utilization

Over the past century, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) has significantly increased in our atmosphere, creating numerous catastrophic effects and environmental impacts. There are three main CO 2 capture methods: (a) post-combustion, (b) pre-combustion, and (c) oxy-fuel combustion implemented to capture CO 2 from significant CO 2 emitting sources. Further, the captured CO 2 is utilized to convert it into value-added products. The current status of potential combined CO 2 capture and CO 2 utilization methods provide the solution to the issues of greenhouse-gas CO 2 emissions from anthropogenic activities and the ever-growing energy demand challenges. These unique approaches dramatically reduce the overall energy penalty, cost-effective, and have a low environmental impact. As of now, carbon management is more intensively shifting toward the carbon utilization for minimizing energy consumption and replacing fossil fuel with the cleaner energy sources. This paper presents an idea of co-integration pathways for CO 2 capture and CO 2 utilization.