Carbon Utilization: Applications for the Energy Industry

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
CO2 Capture and Utilization for the Energy Industry: Outlook for Capability Development to Address Climate Change in India....Pages 3-33
Adoption and Introduction of Supercritical Technology in the Power Sector and Consequential Effects in Operation, Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emission in the Present Context....Pages 35-43
Low Carbon Technologies (LCT) and Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS)—Key to Green Power Mission for Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability....Pages 45-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Soil as Source and Sink for Atmospheric CO2 ....Pages 61-68
Soil Carbon Stock and CO2 Flux in Different Ecosystems of North-East India....Pages 69-79
Baseline Data of Stored Carbon in Spinifex littoreus from Kadmath Island, Lakshadweep....Pages 81-87
Assessment of Altitudinal Mediated Changes of CO2 Sequestration by Trees at Pachamalai Reserve Forest, Tamil Nadu, India....Pages 89-99
Prospects in Mitigating Global Warming by Biomimetic Carbon Sequestration Using Recombinant Microbial Carbonic Anhydrases....Pages 101-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Climate Change Mitigation via Utilization of Carbon Dioxide....Pages 131-141
Carbon Sequestration Through Solar Bioreactors: Industrial Strategies....Pages 143-155
Clathrate Hydrates: A Powerful Tool to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas....Pages 157-168
Carbon Sequestration and Utilization—India’s Energy Woes....Pages 169-181
Coalbed Methane: Present Status and Scope of Enhanced Recovery Through CO2 Sequestration in India....Pages 183-203
A Low-Carbon Growth Strategy for India: Synergies from Oxy-Combustion, Carbon Capture, and ECBM....Pages 205-214
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Carbon Dioxide Management—Aluminium Industry Perspective....Pages 217-229
Bioenergy Combined with Carbon Capture Potential by Microalgae at Flue Gas-Based Carbon Sequestration Plant of NALCO as Accelerated Carbon Sink....Pages 231-244
Current and Future Trends Toward Reduction of CO2 Emission from Steel Industries....Pages 245-256
Carbon Emissions and Their Mitigation in the Cement Sector....Pages 257-268
Aqueous NH3 in CO2 Capture from Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant Flue Gas: N-Fertilizer Production Potential and GHG Emission Mitigation....Pages 269-297