Carbon Eliminated: The EM-Catalytic Syngas Manifold and the End of Industrial CO₂ as a Liability

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🔬研究者:A novel theoretical architecture for CO2 elimination via plasma conversion and syngas synthesis, with an integrated economic model.

🏢実務担当者:Provides a framework for hard-to-abate sectors to turn CO2 into methanol and other products, potentially reducing compliance costs under carbon pricing.

🏛政策担当者:Illustrates how enabling sovereign fuel production and CO2 conversion can invert carbon liabilities, informing industrial policy and carbon market design.

Carbon Eliminated: The EM‑Catalytic Syngas Manifold and the End of Industrial CO₂ as a Liability ECSM‑WP‑001 | Griffiths Canon | Industrial Decarbonisation Branch This white paper introduces the EM‑Catalytic Syngas Manifold (ECSM) — the first architecture to eliminate industrial CO₂ emissions not by capturing or storing them, but by destroying the CO₂ molecule and rebuilding it as synthesis gas and downstream methanol. ECSM converts CO₂ into value, transforming a regulatory liability into a partially self‑funding compliance asset for steel, cement, chemical refining, and maritime sectors. The paper establishes the full physics, engineering, and economics of ECSM across three EM‑governed stages: CO₂ plasma dissociation under DIGSP supervisory control (η_CO₂ = 55%). Hydrogen supply and injection, sourced via four independent reductant routes (direct EM water splitting, sovereign NH₃ own‑production, transported NH₃ cracking, or delivered H₂). Syngas conditioning and methanol synthesis, producing a fungible liquid commodity while permanently eliminating CO₂ from the emission stream. A central contribution of the paper is the definition of the Sovereign Fuel Flywheel, a coastal multi‑product hub in which seawater desalination, offshore renewable electricity, and atmospheric nitrogen converge to produce sovereign NH₃ at $350–450/t and H₂ at ~$2.27/kg. This collapses reductant cost, stabilises ECSM economics, and generates five simultaneous revenue streams: methanol, industrial oxygen, surplus NH₃, surplus H₂, and carbon credits. The paper provides a full reductant‑supply architecture (Routes A–D), a complete gas‑handling and logistics framework (CO₂, H₂, NH₃, O₂, MeOH), and a falsifiable energy‑balance model showing that ECSM becomes net‑positive when renewable electricity is below $0.05/kWh or NH₃ is below $650/t. Under sovereign conditions, ECSM achieves +$26 to +$32 per tonne CO₂ eliminated, inverting the €70/t EU ETS liability carried by large emitters. ECSM‑WP‑001 positions CO₂ elimination as an economically rational engineering pathway rather than a cost‑only compliance burden. It establishes ECSM as a deployable, modular, and sovereign‑aligned architecture capable of eliminating CO₂ at industrial scale while generating marketable products and restoring competitiveness under tightening global carbon regimes. Keywords: CO₂ elimination; syngas; methanol synthesis; EM plasma governance; DIGSP; sovereign NH₃; hydrogen logistics; industrial decarbonisation; Griffiths Canon; ECSM; Sovereign Fuel Flywheel.

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