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Ringsby AJ, Ross CM, Maher K. Sorption of Soil Carbon Dioxide by Biochar and Engineered Porous Carbons. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2024; 58:8313-8325. [PMID: 38689207 PMCID: PMC11097398 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c02015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
Abstract
CO2 is 45 to 50 times more concentrated in soil than in air, resulting in global diffusive fluxes that outpace fossil fuel combustion by an order of magnitude. Despite the scale of soil CO2 emissions, soil-based climate change mitigation strategies are underdeveloped. Existing approaches, such as enhanced weathering and sustainable land management, show promise but continue to face deployment barriers. We introduce an alternative approach: the use of solid adsorbents to directly capture CO2 in soils. Biomass-derived adsorbents could exploit favorable soil CO2 adsorption thermodynamics while also sequestering solid carbon. Despite this potential, previous study of porous carbon CO2 adsorption is mostly limited to single-component measurements and conditions irrelevant to soil. Here, we probe sorption under simplified soil conditions (0.2 to 3% CO2 in balance air at ambient temperature and pressure) and provide physical and chemical characterization data to correlate material properties to sorption performance. We show that minimally engineered pyrogenic carbons exhibit CO2 sorption capacities comparable to or greater than those of advanced sorbent materials. Compared to textural features, sorbent carbon bond morphology substantially influences low-pressure CO2 adsorption. Our findings enhance understanding of gas adsorption on porous carbons and inform the development of effective soil-based climate change mitigation approaches.
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- Alexandra J. Ringsby
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Yang X, Sadeghi Pouya E, Xiao G, Richter M, May EF. High-Pressure Gravimetric Measurements for Binary Gas Adsorption Equilibria and Comparisons with Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST). LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:13521-13533. [PMID: 37697862 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/13/2023]
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Measurements of gas mixture adsorption equilibria at high pressures are important for assessing actual adsorbent selectivities but are often out of reach, given the challenging nature of the required experiments. Here, we report a high-pressure gravimetric binary gas adsorption equilibrium measurement system based on simultaneous gas density and mixture adsorption measurements in a single gas cell coupled to a magnetic-suspension balance. Compared to traditional techniques which rely on analytical measurements of gas composition, this approach does not require any sampling. Adsorption measurements of two gas mixtures (0.500 N2 + 0.500 CH4 and 0.400 N2 + 0.600 CO2, mole fraction) on a commercially available molecular sieve (NaY, sodium molecular sieve type Y) were carried out in the temperature range 282 to 325 K with a pressure up to 10 MPa. A prediction method for the gas mixture adsorption equilibria in a closed system using the ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) model was used to compare the experimental results. For binary mixtures of components with similar adsorption capacities (here N2 and CH4), the system can measure the adsorption equilibria at pressures higher than 1.0 MPa and the result agrees well with the IAST model prediction. For two gases with very different adsorption capacities, the uncertainty in the adsorption equilibrium measurement is much larger. The dominant uncertainty source is the gas density measurement, whose uncertainty could potentially be cut to half if the current titanium sinker is replaced with a sinker made of single-crystal silicon and with a larger volume.
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- Xiaoxian Yang
- Fluid Science & Resources Division, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Applied Thermodynamics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
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- Fluid Science & Resources Division, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Fluid Science & Resources Division, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Fluid Science & Resources Division, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Applied Thermodynamics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
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- Fluid Science & Resources Division, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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Sean McGivern W, Nguyen HGT, Manion JA. Improved Apparatus for Dynamic Column Breakthrough Measurements Relevant to Direct Air Capture of CO 2. Ind Eng Chem Res 2023; 62:10.1021/acs.iecr.2c04050. [PMID: 38496765 PMCID: PMC10941306 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c04050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
Abstract
Dynamic column breakthrough (DCB) measurements are valuable for characterizing the adsorption of gaseous species by solid sorbents and are typically used for high concentrations of adsorptives, often at elevated temperatures and pressures. However, adsorbents for the direct capture of carbon dioxide from natural air demand measurement capability at low partial pressures of CO2 at atmospherically relevant temperatures and pressures. We have developed a new apparatus focused on the measurement of DCB curves under typical tropospheric conditions. The new apparatus is described in detail and validated with breakthrough curve measurements. Adsorption capacities are reported at (233.1 to 323.1) K and (351 to 1078) hPa for low carbon dioxide concentrations on 13X zeolite samples on the order of a few hundred milligrams. Measurement uncertainties related to timing, flow, temperature, and concentrations are analyzed and the present results at 273 K, 298 K, and 323 K are compared with static measurements obtained with a manometric adsorption analyzer. In addition, experiments at a typical atmospheric CO2 concentration of 400 μL · L-1 have been performed.
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- W Sean McGivern
- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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- Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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Yu C, Zhao J, Wang Z, Guo P, Liu H, Su Z, Liao H. Vapor-liquid phase equilibrium of n-pentane in quartz nanopores by grand canonical Monte Carlo calculation. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Wilkins NS, Sawada JA, Rajendran A. Quantitative Microscale Dynamic Column Breakthrough Apparatus for Measurement of Unary and Binary Adsorption Equilibria on Milligram Quantities of Adsorbents. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nicholas Stiles Wilkins
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo Innovation Centre of Engineering, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo Innovation Centre of Engineering, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo Innovation Centre of Engineering, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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Shade D, Bout BWS, Sholl DS, Walton KS. Opening the Toolbox: 18 Experimental Techniques for Measurement of Mixed Gas Adsorption. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Danny Shade
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Gharagheizi F, Sholl DS. Comprehensive Assessment of the Accuracy of the Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory for Predicting Binary Adsorption of Gas Mixtures in Porous Materials. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Farhad Gharagheizi
- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100, United States
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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Loughlin KF, Abouelnasr D. Critical Evaluation of Henry’s Law Constants for Nitrogen on the NaX (13X) Zeolite. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c01466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 313 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Dong Z, Li B, Shang H, Zhang P, Chen S, Yang J, Zeng Z, Wang J, Deng S. Ultramicroporous carbon granules with narrow pore size distribution for efficient CH
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separation from coal‐bed gases. AIChE J 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ze Dong
- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Research Institute of Special Chemicals Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Research Institute of Special Chemicals Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- School of Resource Environmental and Chemical Engineering Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi China
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy Arizona State University Tempe Arizona USA
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Cai X, Gharagheizi F, Bingel LW, Shade D, Walton KS, Sholl DS. A Collection of More than 900 Gas Mixture Adsorption Experiments in Porous Materials from Literature Meta-Analysis. Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c05398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Xuqing Cai
- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Li M, Yang X, Connolly P, Robinson N, May EF, Mahmoud M, El-Husseiny A, Johns ML. Miscible Fluid Displacement in Rock Cores Evaluated with NMR T2 Relaxation Time Measurements. Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c03001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ming Li
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Estupiñan Perez L, Sarkar P, Rajendran A. Experimental validation of multi-objective optimization techniques for design of vacuum swing adsorption processes. Sep Purif Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.05.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Gao F, Wang S, Chen G, Duan J, Dong J, Wang W. A facile approach to the fabrication of MgO@Y composite for CO2 capture. ADSORPTION 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10450-019-00147-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Yang Z, Wang D, Meng Z, Li Y. Adsorption separation of CH4/N2 on modified coal-based carbon molecular sieve. Sep Purif Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.02.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Measurement of competitive CO2 and N2 adsorption on Zeolite 13X for post-combustion CO2 capture. ADSORPTION 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10450-018-00004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Wynnyk KG, Hojjati B, Marriott RA. High-Pressure Sour Gas and Water Adsorption on Zeolite 13X. Ind Eng Chem Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b03317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kyle G. Wynnyk
- Chemistry Department, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Northwest, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 1N4
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- Chemistry Department, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Northwest, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 1N4
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- Chemistry Department, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, Northwest, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 1N4
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