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Hong W, Lian Z, Jiang H, Chen J, Zhang Z, Ni Z. Progress in advanced electrospun membranes for CO 2 capture: Feedstock, design, and trend. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 352:120026. [PMID: 38184873 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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The emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide has caused serious environmental problems and hindered the construction of a green and low-carbon society. Efficient carbon dioxide capture has become an important means to slow down global climate warming and achieve effective utilization of carbon dioxide. Membranes synthesized by electrospinning technology are becoming promising carbon capture materials due to their unique characteristics. This review describes the features of membranes prepared from available raw materials and presents their application performances in carbon capture. The preparation methods of various types of membrane materials with excellent capture performance are summarized, and the effects of electrospinning parameters on electrospun fibers are systematically analyzed. Furthermore, recommendations and expectations for further development of electrospun membranes for carbon capture applications are given. These works provide important references for an in-depth understanding of the development status of electrospun membranes in the field of carbon capture and for expanding future research.
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- Wenpeng Hong
- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, 132012, PR China
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, 132012, PR China
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, 132012, PR China.
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- Center of Analysis and Measurement, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, 132022, PR China
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, 132012, PR China
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, 132012, PR China
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Ignatusha P, Lin H, Kapuscinsky N, Scoles L, Ma W, Patarachao B, Du N. Membrane Separation Technology in Direct Air Capture. MEMBRANES 2024; 14:30. [PMID: 38392657 PMCID: PMC10889985 DOI: 10.3390/membranes14020030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Direct air capture (DAC) is an emerging negative CO2 emission technology that aims to introduce a feasible method for CO2 capture from the atmosphere. Unlike carbon capture from point sources, which deals with flue gas at high CO2 concentrations, carbon capture directly from the atmosphere has proved difficult due to the low CO2 concentration in ambient air. Current DAC technologies mainly consider sorbent-based systems; however, membrane technology can be considered a promising DAC approach since it provides several advantages, e.g., lower energy and operational costs, less environmental footprint, and more potential for small-scale ubiquitous installations. Several recent advancements in validating the feasibility of highly permeable gas separation membrane fabrication and system design show that membrane-based direct air capture (m-DAC) could be a complementary approach to sorbent-based DAC, e.g., as part of a hybrid system design that incorporates other DAC technologies (e.g., solvent or sorbent-based DAC). In this article, the ongoing research and DAC application attempts via membrane separation have been reviewed. The reported membrane materials that could potentially be used for m-DAC are summarized. In addition, the future direction of m-DAC development is discussed, which could provide perspective and encourage new researchers' further work in the field of m-DAC.
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- Pavlo Ignatusha
- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Center, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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Hillman F, Wang K, Liang CZ, Seng DHL, Zhang S. Breaking The Permeance-Selectivity Tradeoff for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture: A Bio-Inspired Strategy to Form Ultrathin Hollow Fiber Membranes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2305463. [PMID: 37672561 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202305463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Thin film composite (TFC) hollow fiber membranes with ultrathin selective layer are desirable to maximize the gas permeance for practical applications. Herein, a bio-inspired strategy is proposed to fabricate sub-100-nm membranes via a tree-mimicking polymer network with amphipathic components featuring multifunctionalities. The hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) brushes act as the roots that can strongly cling to the gutter layer, the PDMS crosslinkers function as the xylems to enable fast gas transport, and the hydrophilic ethylene-oxide moieties (brushes and mobile molecules) resemble tree leaves that selectively attract CO2 molecules. As a result, a ≈27 nm-thick selective layer can be attached to the hollow fiber-supported PDMS gutter layer through a simple dip-coating method without any modification. Furthermore, a CO2 permeance of ≈2700 GPU and a CO2 /N2 selectivity of ≈21 that is beyond the permeance-selectivity upper bound for hollow fiber membranes is achieved. This bio-inspired concept can potentially open the possibility of scalable hollow fiber membranes production for commercial applications in post-combustion carbon capture and beyond.
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- Febrian Hillman
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
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- Institute of Material Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138634, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore
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Zhang G, Bui V, Yin Y, Tsai EHR, Nam CY, Lin H. Carbon Capture Membranes Based on Amorphous Polyether Nanofilms Enabled by Thickness Confinement and Interfacial Engineering. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 37440697 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Thin-film composite membranes are a leading technology for post-combustion carbon capture, and the key challenge is to fabricate defect-free selective nanofilms as thin as possible (100 nm or below) with superior CO2/N2 separation performance. Herein, we developed high-performance membranes based on an unusual choice of semi-crystalline blends of amorphous poly(ethylene oxide) (aPEO) and 18-crown-6 (C6) using two nanoengineering strategies. First, the crystallinity of the nanofilms decreases with decreasing thickness and completely disappears at 500 nm or below because of the thickness confinement. Second, polydimethylsiloxane is chosen as the gutter layer between the porous support and selective layer, and its surface is modified with bio-adhesive polydopamine (<10 nm) with an affinity toward aPEO, enabling the formation of the thin, defect-free, amorphous aPEO/C6 layer. For example, a 110 nm film containing 40 mass % C6 in aPEO exhibits CO2 permeability of 900 Barrer (much higher than a thick film with 420 Barrer), rendering a membrane with a CO2 permeance of 2200 GPU and CO2/N2 selectivity of 27 at 35 °C, surpassing Robeson's upper bound. This work shows that engineering at the nanoscale plays an important role in designing high-performance membranes for practical separations.
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- Gengyi Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University at New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University at New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, United States
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- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, The State University at New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, The State University at New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University at New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, United States
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Pan Y, Chen G, Liu J, Li J, Chen X, Zhu H, Liu G, Zhang G, Jin W. PDMS thin-film composite membrane fabricated by ultraviolet crosslinking acryloyloxy-terminated monomers. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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