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Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products

  • US 8,212,088 B2
  • Filed: 08/07/2009
  • Issued: 07/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An environmentally beneficial method of preparing a renewable fuel, which method comprises:

  • obtaining carbon dioxide from a natural or chemical source that would otherwise be present in or discharged into the atmosphere; and

    producing an energy storage and transportation material or a fuel sufficient to generate energy by hydrogenatively converting the carbon dioxide thus obtained under conditions sufficient to produce methanol as the material or fuel.

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