Patent ID: 8084652

Claim:
A method to convert carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to a primary alcohol, the method comprising: spraying a pressurized water mist into a directional flow of a stream of flue gas comprising the CO 2 from a combustion process to create heat and a mixture of liquid carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3 ) and wastewater; extracting, using the heat, the liquid H 2 CO 3 from the mixture; pressurizing the liquid H 2 CO 3 extracted from the mixture to generate pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 ; combining the pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 with a first liquid reagent comprising lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH 4 ) in a first hydrolysis chamber; and creating the primary alcohol from combining the pressurized liquid H 2 CO 3 with the first liquid reagent comprising LiAlH 4 .