A Computational Study of Direct Thermocatalytic Reduction of CO2 for the Production of Synthetic Methanol

The thesis aims at creating a one-dimentional and two-dimensional axisymmeteric model of a reactor for the production of synthetic methanol, starting from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. After a brief introduction on the current state of art of the technologies used, the model has been produced and validated with the data fuond in literature. Then, a termal integration of the overall plant has been studied and two possible technologies for carbon capture have been analyzed and compared.