CO2 Reforming with Alkanes

Direct CO2 reforming with light alkanes is a promising approach for transforming CO2 into value-added products, enabling carbon emission reduction and valorization (to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels). The development of highly active and stable catalytic systems is essential for the cost-effective and practical CO2 reforming processes. In this chapter, we first summarized the state-of-the-art on the catalyst design for CO2 reforming mainly regarding the support selection and structure modification to tackle the catalytic deactivation issues such as metal sintering or coke formation. Additionally, other advanced CO2 reforming systems such as super-dry reforming and photocatalysis are discussed as well since they have the potential to activate the CO2 conversion processes either with ultra-high CO2 utilization efficiency or under milder conditions. Finally, recent developments on in situ/operando characterization techniques for mechanistic investigations are presented, which is beneficial for the rational design/optimization of catalysts to advance catalytic CO2 reforming technologies.