Sorbents for CO2 capture from flue gas-aspects from materials and theoretical chemistry

Predictions of future climate change have triggered a search for ways to reduce the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) assists this goal by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and CO 2 adsorbents in particular can reduce the costs of CO 2 capture. Here,...

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Published inNanoscale Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 1819 - 1841
Main Authors Hedin, Niklas, Chen, LiJun, Laaksonen, Aatto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2010
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Air pollution
Carbon
Carbon dioxide
Nanocomposites
Nanomaterials
Nanostructure
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Summary:Predictions of future climate change have triggered a search for ways to reduce the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) assists this goal by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and CO 2 adsorbents in particular can reduce the costs of CO 2 capture. Here, we review the nanoscale sorbent materials that have been developed and the theoretical basis for their function in CO 2 separation, particularly from N 2 -rich flue gases. Here, we review the nanoscale sorbent materials that have been developed and the theoretical basis for their function in CO 2 separation, particularly from N 2 -rich flue gases.
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Niklas Hedin, MSc. Chemical Engineering and PhD Physical Chemistry from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Post doctoral research with Bradley Chmelka in University of California at Santa Barbara, US (2001-2003) and with Sebastian Reyes at ExxonMobil Corporate Research Laboratories in Annadale, US (2004-2006). Now Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden. Main research interest is adsorbents that could allow a cost effective separation of CO
Aatto Laaksonen is a Professor in Physical Chemistry at Stockholm University; BSc. Mathematics, Stockholm University; PhD in Physical Chemistry Stockholm University 1981; postdoctoral research with Dr Victor Saunders 1982, Daresbury Laboratory, UK; postdoctoral research with Dr Enrico Clementi 1983-1985, IBM research laboratories in Poughkeepsie and in Kingston, USA. Active in the area of computational materials science, being responsible for modelling work to design new nano- and mesoporous materials for separation and storage of gases and for heterogeneous catalysis processes inside the pores within the newly established center-of-excellence at Stockholm University.
rich gases; special focus on molecular details on solid-gas interactions.
LiJun Chen was born in Zhejiang, China in 1979. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry in 2002 and PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2007 at Jilin University. Since 2007 she has been working as a postdoctoral student in the Department of Materials and Environment Chemistry, Stockholm University. Her main research interests covered the development of multi-scale simulation methods bridging molecular dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics with the application in simulations of macromolecules. Now she focuses on the theoretical studies of the porous materials combining quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo approaches.
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ISSN:2040-3364
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DOI:10.1039/c0nr00042f