Direct air capture of CO2 with aqueous peptides and crystalline guanidines
Negative emission technologies, including direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide, are now considered essential for mitigating climate change, but existing DAC processes tend to have excessively high energy requirements, mostly associated with sorbent regeneration. Here, we demonstrate a promising approach to DAC that combines atmospheric CO2 absorption by an aqueous oligopeptide (e.g., glycylglycine) with bicarbonate crystallization by a simple guanidine compound (e.g., glyoxal-bis-iminoguanidine). In this phase-changing system, the peptide and the guanidine compounds work in synergy, and the cyclic CO2 capacity can be maximized by matching the pKa values of the two components. Compared with glycine, the simpler amino acid congener, the cyclic CO2 capacity of the glycylglycine peptide combined with glyoxal-bis-iminoguanidine is twice as high (0.16 mol/mol). The resulting DAC process has a significantly lower regeneration energy compared with state-of-the-art solvent-based DAC technologies.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 10,583,387; AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1773228
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1777730
- Journal Information:
- Cell Reports Physical Science, Journal Name: Cell Reports Physical Science Vol. 2 Journal Issue: 4; ISSN 2666-3864
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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