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CO 2 Capture from High-Humidity Flue Gas Using a Stable Metal-Organic Framework.

Qi WangYang ChenPuxu LiuYi WangJiangfeng YangJinping LiLibo Li
Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
The flue gas from fossil fuel power plants is a long-term stable and concentrated emission source of CO 2 , and it is imperative to reduce its emission. Adsorbents have played a pivotal role in reducing CO 2 emissions in recent years, but the presence of water vapor in flue gas poses a challenge to the stability of adsorbents. In this study, ZIF-94, one of the ZIF adsorbents, showed good CO 2 uptake (53.30 cm 3 /g), and the calculated CO 2 /N 2 (15:85, v / v ) selectivity was 54.12 at 298 K. Because of its excellent structural and performance stability under humid conditions, the CO 2 /N 2 mixture was still well-separated on ZIF-94 with a separation time of 30.4 min when the relative humidity was as high as 99.2%, which was similar to the separation time of the dry gas experiments (33.2 min). These results pointed to the enormous potential applications of ZIF-94 for CO 2 /N 2 separation under high humidity conditions in industrial settings.
Keyphrases
  • room temperature
  • metal organic framework
  • liquid chromatography
  • carbon dioxide
  • heavy metals
  • mass spectrometry
  • wastewater treatment