• Focuses on the science and technology of anthropogenic carbon dioxide removal processes 
  
  
• Highlights Indian contribution to CO2 terrestrial and biotic sequestration options in the context of climate change
  
  
• Provides perspectives towards low carbon growth strategy in the energy industry

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

Part I CO₂ Emission, Sequestration and Utilization: A Policy Dilemma for Energy Security

CO₂ Capture and Utilization for the Energy Industry: Outlook for Capability Development to Address Climate Change in India | Malti Goel

Adoption and Introduction of Supercritical Technology in the Power Sector and Consequential Effects in Operation, Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emission in the Present Context | V.S. Verma

Low Carbon Technologies (LCT) and Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS)—Key to Green Power Mission for Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability | V.K. Sethi

Part II Terrestrial Sequestration Options for CO₂ 

Soil as Source and Sink for Atmospheric CO₂ | Tapas Bhattacharyya, S.P. Wani, D.K. Pal and K.L. Sahrawat

Soil Carbon Stock and CO₂ Flux in Different Ecosystems of North-East India | P.S. Yadava and Amrabati Thokchom

Baseline Data of Stored Carbon in Spinifex littoreus from Kadmath Island, Lakshadweep | Abhijit Mitra, J. Sundaresan, K. Syed Ali, Nabonita Pal, Upasana Datta, Ankita Mitra, Prosenjit Pramanick and Sufia Zaman

Assessment of Altitudinal Mediated Changes of CO₂ Sequestration by Trees at Pachamalai Reserve Forest, Tamil Nadu, India | K. Suganthi, K. Rajiv Das, M. Selvaraj, S. Kurinji, Malti Goel and M. Govindaraju

Prospects in Mitigating Global Warming by Biomimetic Carbon Sequestration Using Recombinant Microbial Carbonic Anhydrases | T. Satyanarayana and Himadri Bose

Part III Low Carbon Growth Strategy from CO₂ Utilization 

Climate Change Mitigation via Utilization of Carbon Dioxide | K. Palanivelu

Carbon Sequestration Through Solar Bioreactors: Industrial Strategies | K. Sudhakar and Ruma Arora Soni

Clathrate Hydrates: A Powerful Tool to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas | Pinnelli S.R. Prasad and Ch. V.V. Eswari

Carbon Sequestration and Utilization—India’s Energy Woes | Gautam Sen

Coalbed Methane: Present Status and Scope of Enhanced Recovery Through CO₂ Sequestration in India | Vinod Atmaram Mendhe, Alka D. Kamble, Mollika Bannerjee, Subhashree Mishra and Tanmay Sutay

A Low-Carbon Growth Strategy for India: Synergies from Oxy-Combustion, Carbon Capture, and ECBM | Thomas Weber

Part IV Current Research and Green Technology Perspective for Industry 

Carbon Dioxide Management—Aluminium Industry Perspective | Anupam Agnihotri, Suchita Rai and Nitin Warhadpande

Bioenergy Combined with Carbon Capture Potential by Microalgae at Flue Gas-Based Carbon Sequestration Plant of NALCO as Accelerated Carbon Sink | Ranjan R. Pradhan, Rati R. Pradhan, Siddhanta Das, Brajesh Dubey and Animesh Dutta

Current and Future Trends Toward Reduction of CO₂ Emission from Steel Industries | Santanu Sarkar and Supriya Sarkar

Carbon Emissions and Their Mitigation in the Cement Sector | Shashank Bishnoi

Aqueous NH3 in CO₂ Capture from Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant Flue Gas: N-Fertilizer Production Potential and GHG Emission Mitigation | Amitava Bandyopadhyay