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The statements and opinions contained in proceedings are those of the participants and are not endorsed by other participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies. For information about other products and activities of the National Academies, please visit www.nationalacademies.org/about/whatwedo. PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status and Research Needs COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPING A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR UTILIZATION OF GASEOUS CARBON WASTE STREAMS Members DAVID T. ALLEN, NAE, University of Texas, Austin MARK A. BARTEAU, NAE, Texas A&M University MICHAEL BURKART, University of California, San Diego JENNIFER DUNN, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory ANNE M. GAFFNEY, Idaho National Laboratory RAGHUBIR GUPTA, Susteon, Inc. NILAY HAZARI, Yale University MATTHEW KANAN, Stanford University PAUL KENIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign HOWARD KLEE, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (retired) GAURAV N. SANT, University of California, Los Angeles CATHY L. TWAY, The Dow Chemical Company Staff DAVID M. ALLEN, Sr. Program Officer CAMLY TRAN, Sr. Program Officer ELIZABETH ZEITLER, Sr. Program Officer TERESA FRYBERGER, BCST Director ANNA SBEREGAEVA, Associate Program Officer ERIN MARKOVICH, Sr. Program Assistant/Research Assistant PREPUBLICATION COPY v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status and Research Needs BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY Co-Chairs DAVID BEM, PPG Industries JOAN BRENNECKE, NAE, University of Texas, Austin Members GERARD BAILLELY, Procter and Gamble MARK A. BARTEAU, NAE, Texas A&M MICHELLE V. BUCHANAN, Oak Ridge National Laboratory JENNIFER SINCLAIR CURTIS, University of California, Davis RICHARD EISENBERG, NAS, University of Rochester SAMUEL H. GELLMAN, NAS, University of Wisconsin–Madison SHARON C. GLOTZER, NAS, University of Michigan MIRIAM E. JOHN, Sandia National Laboratories (retired) ALAN D. PALKOWITZ, Eli Lilly and Company (retired) JOSEPH B. POWELL, Shell PETER J. ROSSKY, NAS, Rice University RICHMOND SARPONG, University of California, Berkeley TIMOTHY SWAGER, NAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Staff TERESA FRYBERGER, Board Director MARILEE SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer CAMLY TRAN, Senior Program Officer ANNA SBEREGAEVA, Associate Program Officer JARRETT I. NGUYEN, Senior Program Assistant JESSICA WOLFMAN, Senior Program Assistant SHUBHA BANSKOTA, Financial Associate PREPUBLICATION COPY vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status and Research Needs Preface Global emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, caused by human activities, are now in excess of 35,000 teragrams (tg) per year, or roughly 5 tons per person per year. In countries with advanced economies, like the United States, emissions per capita are larger, in excess of 15 tons per person per year. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to levels that are consistent with limiting the extent of global warming to less than a 2°C increase over pre-industrial temperatures, will require a variety of approaches. Some approaches, such as expanding the use of energy sources that have low greenhouse gas emissions, will prevent emissions. Other approaches involve capturing greenhouse gas emissions; however, capturing and permanently sequestering gigatons of waste gas per year is technically challenging and imposes costs. An alternative to sequestration is to find a productive use for captured greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide and