The cement and lime industries are major contributors to the anthropogenic CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. By combining the CO2-releasing calcination of CaCO3 with the CO2-consuming dry-reforming of CH4, and by further combining these endothermic reactions with the exothermic partial oxidation...

The production of aluminum by the electrolytic Hall–Héroult process suffers from high energy requirements, the release of perfluorocarbons, and vast greenhouse gas emissions. The alternative carbothermic reduction of alumina, while significantly less energy-intensive, is complicated by the...