Patent ID: 8435331

Claim:
A system to convert carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to a primary alcohol, the system comprising: a receiving system comprising a pressurized water misting array and configured to: spray a pressurized water mist into a directional flow of a stream of flue gas comprising CO 2 from a combustion process to create a mixture of liquid carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3 ) and wastewater and capture heat from the stream of flue gas; an acid separation system configured to: separate, using the heat, the liquid H 2 CO 3 from the mixture; and purify the liquid H 2 CO 3 to create purified liquid H 2 CO 3 ; and an acid conversion system comprising a plurality of fogging pumps, a reagent storage tank, and a plurality of hydrolysis chambers, the acid conversion system configured to: pressurize the purified liquid H 2 CO 3 using a first of the plurality of fogging pumps to create pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 ; combine the pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 with a first liquid reagent comprising lithium aluminum anhydride (LiAlH 4 ), extracted from the reagent storage tank, in a first of the plurality of hydrolysis chambers; and create the primary alcohol from combining the pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 with the first liquid reagent comprising (LiAlH 4 ).