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DESCRIPTION:Speaker:Volker Sick\n\nTitle:Why and how to use carbon dioxide 
 to make products\n\nAbstract:Taking carbon dioxide as a resource\, a feeds
 tock for essential products is a game changer for sustainable economies. C
 O2-based products will become key elements of growing local and global eco
 nomies. Growing demands for food\, household and industrial chemicals\, en
 ergy carriers\, construction materials\, and much more cannot be met with 
 biomass and traditional recycling alone. The carbon from CO2 becomes the t
 hird leg of the carbon sources stool and technology readiness of suitable 
 conversion technologies has reached critical levels for deployments. This 
 talk will examine the global opportunities for CO2 utilization and provide
 s projections for new $trillion industries.\n\nAbout the Speaker:Volker Si
 ck\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering\; DTE Energy Pr
 ofessor of Advanced Energy Research\; Director of the Global CO2 Initiativ
 e\; Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. He works on CO2-u
 tilization for carbon management and fossil-free carbon products. Addition
 ally\, he develops optical diagnosis methods for diseases of the human eye
 . He earned his Doctorate in Chemistry (1992) and Habilitation in Physical
  Chemistry (1997) from the University of Heidelberg\, Germany.
LOCATION:PHO 203\, 8 St Mary's St.
SUMMARY:MechE Seminar Series | Month of Energy and Sustainability: Volker S
 ick Seminar
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