ABSTRACT

Carbon and hydrogen For the chemical process industry, the fundamental raw material is carbon and hydrogen. Thus, nding cheap and abundant sources of carbon and hydrogen is very important. The ultimate source of carbon is CO2, and technologies are needed to process CO2 with the efciency that plant cells process. The ultimate source of hydrogen is water, and an energyefcient technology to obtain hydrogen from water is the holy grail of the present-day research. Once these very fundamental raw materials are obtained, then the synthesis of the variety of chemicals is possible even with present-day existing technologies.