CO2 Conversion to Methanol over Novel Carbon Nanofiber-Based Cu/ZrO2 Catalysts-A Kinetics Study

Ongoing industrialization has deteriorated the global environment. Global warming is a human-induced issue affecting the environment. The alarming increase in CO(2)emissions is among the major contributors to global warming. The conversion of CO(2)to methanol is an economically viable and environmentally friendly solution to mitigate its concentration. Here, hydrogenation of CO(2)was studied over carbon nanofiber-based Cu/ZrO(2)catalysts. Kinetics investigations were carried out for the reaction. Overall, kinetics data indicated that CO(2)conversion follows a pseudo-first-order reaction. The kinetics studies were further modeled by using an artificial neural network, which supported the experimental kinetics study.