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Membrane technologies are striking as strong candidates to tackle climate change by presenting potential and effective solutions for capturing CO₂ and also for performing its conversion toward highly valuable chemicals. In order to set the different available options within the membrane field, different types of membranes have been summarized in this chapter, together with the outline of the main strategies and novel solutions toward the CO₂ valorization.

Therefore, the main issues concerning the most promising concepts, their particularities and properties, as well as their advantages and drawbacks when considering their industrial application have been presented. Also, a discussion on how these options can be integrated into the existing engineering layouts has been performed. This led to the presentation of some of the most advanced developments up to date, with an extended description of their operating concepts, and how their implementation can help to the effective valorization of CO₂ while reducing the emission problem.

It is clear that many research groups are working to develop new materials to enhance these processes; however, more efforts are necessary from the research and exploitation point of view of this technology in order to promote membranes in an industrial way.