Shanghai Jiaotong University's Jin Fangming research team published a study in PNAS: Naturally enlightened carbon dioxide hydrothermal reduction to produce long-chain alkanes

Recently, Professor Jin Fangming’s research team from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University published an online title in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, one of the world’s top comprehensive academic journals.

Petroleum is called "the blood of industry", and its main component is a mixture of various long-chain alkanes.

Mass spectrometric identification, abundance distribution and isotope analysis of long-chain alkanes/olefins

Faced with this major scientific problem, Jin Fangming’s research team simulated the composition and hydrothermal environment of the earth’s serpentine iron-cobalt ore, using general iron powder as a reducing agent and cobalt powder as a catalyst, under 300 degrees and 300 atmospheres.

Roadmap of Hydrothermal Reduction Mechanism of Bicarbonate

The study found that bicarbonate not only acts as a carbon source, but also promotes the reduction of cobalt oxides, generating highly active cobalt nanosheet catalytic centers in situ, breaking through the long-term and difficult bottleneck problem of inactivation of cobalt when exposed to water in the chemical industry

This work provides key experimental evidence and mechanism explanations for the theory of non-biological origin of petroleum.

This research has been approved by the National Key Research and Development Program (2018YFC0309800, 2017YFC0506004), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21436007), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21978170), Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Foundation (19ZR1424800), and Shanghai Jiaotong University "Deep Blue Project" (SL2020MS022) And funding for projects such as the Young Teachers Startup Plan

Link to the paper : https://doi.

The Jin Fangming team of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University has long been committed to the study of simulating nature and accelerating the earth's carbon cycle.

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As early as 2005, Professor Jin Fangming carried out preliminary research on hydrothermal reduction of CO ₂ at Tohoku University , Japan, and received multiple support from the foundation research funding of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science