Sustainable Recycling of Formic Acid by Bio-Catalytic CO2 Capture and Re-Hydrogenation

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Zhao, Zhengyang
Yu, Pei
Shanbhag, Bhuvana K
Holt, Phillip
Zhong, Yu Lin
He, Lizhong
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2019
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Formic acid (FA) is a promising reservoir for hydrogen storage and distribution. Its dehydrogenation releases CO2 as a by-product, which limits its practical application. A proof of concept for a bio-catalytic system that simultaneously combines the dehydrogenation of formic acid for H2, in-situ capture of CO2 and its re-hydrogenation to reform formic acid is demonstrated. Enzymatic reactions catalyzed by carbonic anhydrase (CA) and formate dehydrogenase (FDH) under ambient condition are applied for in-situ CO2 capture and re-hydrogenation, respectively, to develop a sustainable system. Continuous production of FA from stripped CO2 was achieved at a rate of 40% using FDH combined with sustainable co-factor regeneration achieved by electrochemistry. In this study, the complete cycle of FA dehydrogenation, CO2 capture, and re-hydrogenation of CO2 to FA has been demonstrated in a single system. The proposed bio-catalytic system has the potential to reduce emissions of CO2 during H2 production from FA by effectively using it to recycle FA for continuous energy supply.

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C-Journal of Carbon Research

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5

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2

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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

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Inorganic materials (incl. nanomaterials)

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Zhao, Z; Yu, P; Shanbhag, BK; Holt, P; Zhong, YL; He, L, Sustainable Recycling of Formic Acid by Bio-Catalytic CO2 Capture and Re-Hydrogenation, C-Journal of Carbon Research, 2019, 5 (2), pp. 22: 1-22: 11

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