Sustainable biomass-based carbon adsorbents for post-combustion CO2 capture
Sustainable carbon adsorbents have been produced from biomass residues by single-step activation with CO2. The activation conditions were optimised to develop narrow micropores in order to maximise the CO2 adsorption capacity of the carbons under post-combustion conditions. The equilibrium of adsorp...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Data de publicação: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositório: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/102949 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/102949 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | CO2 capture Adsorption Biomass Carbon materials |
| Resumo: | Sustainable carbon adsorbents have been produced from biomass residues by single-step activation with CO2. The activation conditions were optimised to develop narrow micropores in order to maximise the CO2 adsorption capacity of the carbons under post-combustion conditions. The equilibrium of adsorption of pure CO2 and N2 was measured between 0 °C and 50 °C up to 120 kPa for the outstanding carbons. The CO2 adsorption capacity measured at low pressures is among the highest ever reported for carbon materials (0.6–1.1 mmol g−1 at 15 kPa and 25–50 °C), and the average isosteric heat of adsorption is typical of a physisorption process: 27 kJ mol−1. Dynamic experiments carried out in a fixed-bed adsorption unit showed fast adsorption and desorption kinetics and a high CO2-over-N2 selectivity. These adsorbents are able to separate a mixture with 14% CO2 (balance N2) at 50 °C, conditions that can be considered as representative of post-combustion conditions, and they can be easily regenerated. |
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