Wilson, Sean M. Wynn, and F. Handan Tezel (2020): Direct Dry Air Capture of CO2 Using VTSA with Faujasite Zeolites

Wilson, Sean M. Wynn, and F. Handan Tezel (2020): Direct Dry Air Capture of CO2 Using VTSA with Faujasite Zeolites. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.iecr.9b04803. ‌"In the process studied, a basic four step TVSA cycle comprising the following steps: pressurization with feed, adsorption, blowdown, and desorption was investigated first. Four different regeneration temperatures were tested along with four different gas space velocities." LINK

Sen, Raktim, et al. (2020): Hydroxide Based Integrated CO2 Capture from Air and Conversion to Methanol

Sen, Raktim, Alain Goeppert, Sayan Kar, and G.K. Surya Prakash (2020): Hydroxide Based Integrated CO2 Capture from Air and Conversion to Methanol. Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.9b12711. ‌"We postulate that the high capture efficiency and stability of hydroxide bases make them superior to existing amine-based routes for direct air capture and conversion to methanol in a scalable process." LINK

Butnar, Isabela, et al. (2020): The Role of Bioenergy for Global Deep Decarbonization: CO 2 Removal or Low‐carbon Energy?

Butnar, Isabela, Oliver Broad, Baltazar Solano Rodriguez, and Paul E. Dodds (2020): The Role of Bioenergy for Global Deep Decarbonization: CO2 Removal or Low‐carbon Energy? GCB Bioenergy, January. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12666. "‌We use a global integrated assessment model, TIAM‐UCL, to investigate the role of bioenergy within the global energy system when direct air capture and afforestation are available as cost‐competitive alternatives to BECCS. We find that the presence of other CO2 removal technologies does not reduce the pressure on biomass resources but changes the use of bioenergy for climate mitigation." LINK

Brochure SPP 1689

Climate engineering and our climate targets – a long-overdue debate

This publication was produced in 2019 as part of the public outreach work under the DFG Priority Programme, with only minor changes made for the English-language edition compared with the German edition. Its aim is to promote open social and political debate that is informed by the best available knowledge about the possibilities and risks of the various climate engineering ideas.

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SPP 1689 Workshop Report: SCENARIOS ON STRATOSPHERIC ALBEDO MODIFICATION DEPLOYMENT IN 2030

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Modelling in Climate Engineering Research: Significance and Uncertainties

This brochure shall help to understand the functioning, limits and possibilities of modelling to help joining the discourse on CE. (Link to online-PDF)

Modelling in Climate Engineering Research (19.8 MiB)

Science and Responsibility

Leaflet with impressions from the analysis of the SPP 1689 within the sub-project SciPol (german).

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Faltblatt Naturwissenschaftler antworten Journalisten

Einige Naturwissenschaftler aus dem Schwerpunktprogramm antworten hier professionellen WissenschaftsjournalistInnen vom „Nationalen Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation“ (Karlsruhe) auf konkrete Fragen zu ihrer Wissenschaft.

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