University of Liverpool – Plasma catalysis for CO2 recycling

Research Group:	Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Host institution:	University of Liverpool (UoL)
Location:	Liverpool, United Kingdom
Involved Persons:	Xin Tu (ESR 10 and 12)

General description: Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool (UoL) is one of the six original ‘red brick’ civic universities and is a founding member of the elite Russell Group of the UK’s leading research universities. Associated with nine Nobel Laureates, the University is recognised internationally for its high-quality teaching and research.

The Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering undertakes world-class research and offers a highly respected range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. The research quality of the Department in RAF (2014) has been judged as 90 % world-leading or internationally excellent. The Technological Plasma Group at UoL is one of the leading plasma groups in the world, working on experimental and modelling studies of low-temperature technological plasmas and their applications.

Persons involved in PIONEER:

Xin Tu is a Reader in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at UoL. He has been working on interdisciplinary research at the interface of plasma science and chemical engineering directed towards environmental clean-up and energy applications. Significant efforts have been devoted to plasma-catalysis for gas cleaning and the synthesis of fuels and chemicals from a range of carbon sources.

Representative publications:

L. Wang, Y. H. Yi, H. C. Guo, X. Tu, Atmospheric pressure and room temperature synthesis of methanol through plasma-catalytic hydrogenation of CO₂, ACS Catalysis 8 (2018) 90-100.
L. Wang, Y. H. Yi, C. F. Wu, H. C. Guo, X. Tu, One-step reforming of CO2 and CH4 to high-value liquid chemicals and fuels at room temperature by plasma-driven catalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56 (2017) 13679-13683.
D. Mei, X. Zhu, C. Wu, B. Ashford, P. T. Williams, X. Tu, Plasma-photocatalytic conversion of CO2 at low temperatures: Understanding the synergistic effect of plasma-catalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 182 (2016) 525-532.