The U.S. Department of Energy's R&D Program for Carbon Use and Reuse

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory has an active carbon capture and storage (CCS) program. A focus area within the carbon storage program is Carbon Use and Reuse. The objective of this area is to identify and develop a suite of technologies to beneficially use CO₂ to produce useful products excluding enhanced oil recovery technologies. Identification of candidate chemistries and economically feasible approaches that utilize large amounts of CO₂ as a feedstock for high-demand product is very challenging while also ensuring that the overall process has a smaller greenhouse gas footprint that traditional pathways. Current projects in the portfolio include algae, cements/concretes and novel concepts.