Assessment of property estimation methods for the thermodynamics of carbon dioxide-based products

Abstract Carbon dioxide can be used as feedstock to produce chemicals. It represents a stimulating defiance to manufacture novel cost competitive materials with less environmental impact, besides to investigate new opportunities for catalysts and industrial chemistry. The contribution of carbon dioxide conversion goes beyond lowering global warming, by reducing fossil resource depletion or even yielding more benign production pathways. Albeit promising, the literature data regarding the quantity of energy needed to convert carbon dioxide into chemicals is limited and narrowed to the most studied processes and products. In order to understand and model the formation of species using carbon dioxide as raw material, some basic thermodynamic data are needed. The development of detailed reaction schemes in the field is also scarce. To enhance and further complete the database of the products obtained from carbon dioxide, this study investigates different procedures to estimate the basic thermodynamic properties of the reactants and products of these reactions. To date various methods have been developed and introduced to determine the gas-phase standard enthalpies of formation and Gibbs energy. Among them, group additivity and semi-empirical methods are widely employed due to their accuracy and effort time for implementation compared to more rigorous methods. Semi empirical quantum-chemistry methods were compared with group additivity methods. Available literature data were used to select the best method for property estimation of the whole set of species, whereby produced from carbon dioxide. The products from carbon dioxide were categorized in sixteen chemical classes, the reaction enthalpy for the direct route to manufacture the products were assessed and indicate a large difference among the classes. The results of this investigation show that semi empirical quantum-chemistry methods revealed to be more accurate for the studied species; additionally, the method demonstrates robustness in estimating the properties. Together, these results provide important insights into the thermodynamics of carbon dioxide related products.

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