scholarly journals Ultra-high surface area mesoporous carbons for colossal pre combustion CO2 capture and storage as materials for hydrogen purification

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1414-1424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cox ◽  
Robert Mokaya

Mesoporous carbons (with up to 95% of pore volume from mesopores) with surface area and pore volume of ∼4000 m2 g−1 and ∼3.6 cm3 g−1, respectively, are excellent CO2 absorbers under pre combustion conditions and can store 55 mmol g−1 (i.e., 2.42 g g−1) or 930 g l−1 at 25 °C and 50 bar.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurwinder Singh ◽  
Rohan Bahadur ◽  
Ajanya Maria Ruban ◽  
Jefrin Marykala Davidraj ◽  
Dawei Su ◽  
...  

Nanoporous biocarbons derived from waste biomass have created significant attention owing to their great potential for energy storage and conversion and water purification. However, the fabrication technology for these materials...


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1962
Author(s):  
Mahboubeh Nabavinia ◽  
Baishali Kanjilal ◽  
Noahiro Fujinuma ◽  
Amos Mugweru ◽  
Iman Noshadi

To address the issue of global warming and climate change issues, recent research efforts have highlighted opportunities for capturing and electrochemically converting carbon dioxide (CO2). Despite metal doped polymers receiving widespread attention in this respect, the structures hitherto reported lack in ease of synthesis with scale up feasibility. In this study, a series of mesoporous metal-doped polymers (MRFs) with tunable metal functionality and hierarchical porosity were successfully synthesized using a one-step copolymerization of resorcinol and formaldehyde with Polyethyleneimine (PEI) under solvothermal conditions. The effect of PEI and metal doping concentrations were observed on physical properties and adsorption results. The results confirmed the role of PEI on the mesoporosity of the polymer networks and high surface area in addition to enhanced CO2 capture capacity. The resulting Cobalt doped material shows excellent thermal stability and promising CO2 capture performance, with equilibrium adsorption of 2.3 mmol CO2/g at 0 °C and 1 bar for at a surface area 675.62 m2/g. This mesoporous polymer, with its ease of synthesis is a promising candidate for promising for CO2 capture and possible subsequent electrochemical conversion.


2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Graham Dawson ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Luhua Lu ◽  
Kai Dai

The adsorption properties of two nanomorphologies of trititanate, nanotubes (TiNT) and plates (TiNP), prepared by the hydrothermal reaction of concentrated NaOH with different phases of TiO2, were examined. It was found that the capacity for both morphologies towards methylene blue (MB), an ideal pollutant, was extremely high, with the TiNP having a capacity of 130 mg/g, higher than the TiNT, whose capacity was 120 mg/g at 10 mg/L MB concentration. At capacity, the well-dispersed powders deposit on the floor of the reaction vessel. The two morphologies had very different structural and adsorption properties. TiNT with high surface area and pore volume exhibited exothermic monolayer adsorption of MB. TiNP with low surface area and pore volume yielded a higher adsorption capacity through endothermic multilayer adsorption governed by pore diffusion. TiNP exhibited a higher negative surface charge of −23 mV, compared to −12 mV for TiNT. The adsorption process appears to be an electrostatic interaction, with the cationic dye attracted more strongly to the nanoplates, resulting in a higher adsorption capacity and different adsorption modes. We believe this simple, low cost production of high capacity nanostructured adsorbent material has potential uses in wastewater treatment.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongying Xia ◽  
Jian Wu ◽  
Chandrasekar Srinivasakannan ◽  
Jinhui Peng ◽  
Libo Zhang

AbstractThe present work attempts to convert bamboo into a high surface area activated carbon via microwave heating. Different chemical activating agents such as KOH, NaOH, K2CO3 and Na2CO3 were utilized to identify a most suitable activating agent. Among the activating agents tested KOH was found to generate carbon with the highest porosity and surface area. The effect of KOH/C ratio on the porous nature of the activated carbon has been assessed. An optimal KOH/C ratio of 4 was identified, beyond which the surface area as well as the pore volume were found to decrease. At the optimized KOH/C ratio the surface area and the pore volume were estimated to be 3,441 m2/g and 2.093 ml/g, respectively, with the significant proportion of which being microporous (62.3%). Activated carbon prepared under the optimum conditions was further characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Activated carbons with so high surface area and pore volume are very rarely reported, which could be owed to the nature of the precursor and the optimal conditions of mixture ratio adopted in the present work.


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 4367-4372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajayan Vinu ◽  
Pavuluri Srinivasu ◽  
Dhanashri P. Sawant ◽  
Toshiyuki Mori ◽  
Katsuhiko Ariga ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 100 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Jie Niu ◽  
Jian Nong Wang ◽  
Ying Jiang ◽  
Lian Feng Su ◽  
Jie Ma

ACS Nano ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 11047-11055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Estevez ◽  
Venkateshkumar Prabhakaran ◽  
Adam L. Garcia ◽  
Yongsoon Shin ◽  
Jinhui Tao ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (18) ◽  
pp. 9126-9132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenzhong Shen ◽  
Tuoping Hu ◽  
Weibin Fan

Nanosheet porous carbon with high surface area and pore volume, unique compositional and structural features endow the nitrogen-doped porous carbon nanosheets with superior CO2 adsorption performance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (6) ◽  
pp. 2072-2076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Kumar Singh ◽  
Katla Sai Krishna ◽  
Srinivasan Harish ◽  
Srinivasan Sampath ◽  
Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (15) ◽  
pp. 6329-6333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholamhossein Mohammadnezhad ◽  
Oluseun Akintola ◽  
Winfried Plass ◽  
Frank Steiniger ◽  
Martin Westermann

Nano boehmite with unprecedented high surface area and pore volume (802 m2 g−1, 2.35 cm3 g−1) was prepared using a facile, green and efficient surfactant-free synthesis method.


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