Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents
Abstract
Direct CO2 capture from atmospheric air is gaining increased attention as one of the most scalable negative carbon approaches available to tackle climate change if coupled with the sequestration of CO2 geologically. Furthermore, it can also provide CO2 for further utilization from a globally uniform source, which is especially advantageous for economies without natural sources of carbon-based feedstocks. Solid-supported amine-based materials are effective for direct air capture (DAC) due to their high CO2 uptakes and acceptable sorption kinetics at ambient temperature. In this work, we describe the application of polymer/silica fiber sorbents functionalized with a primary amine-rich polymer, poly(ethylenimine) (PEI), for DAC. Monolithic fiber sorbents composed of cellulose acetate and SiO2 are synthesized via the dry-jet, wet quench spinning technique. These fibers are then functionalized with PEI (Mw 800 Da) in a simple and scalable postspinning infusion step and tested for CO2 capture under pseudoequilibrium conditions as well as under breakthrough conditions. An investigation to study the effect of feed flow rate, adsorption temperature, and presence of moisture in the feed on the CO2 breakthrough performance of a densely packed fiber sorbent module is conducted to highlight the potential application of this class of structured contactors in direct air capture.more »
- Authors:
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- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-induced Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME); Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1566587
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0026433; SC0012577
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2168-0485
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Direct air capture; CO2 adsorption; Fiber sorbents Poly(ethylenimine); Temperature-vacuum swing adsorption; catalysis (heterogeneous); defects; membrane; carbon capture; materials and chemistry by design; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing)
Citation Formats
Sujan, Achintya R., Pang, Simon H., Zhu, Guanghui, Jones, Christopher W., and Lively, Ryan P. Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06203.
Sujan, Achintya R., Pang, Simon H., Zhu, Guanghui, Jones, Christopher W., & Lively, Ryan P. Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06203
Sujan, Achintya R., Pang, Simon H., Zhu, Guanghui, Jones, Christopher W., and Lively, Ryan P. Tue .
"Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06203. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1566587.
@article{osti_1566587,
title = {Direct CO2 Capture from Air using Poly(ethylenimine)-Loaded Polymer/Silica Fiber Sorbents},
author = {Sujan, Achintya R. and Pang, Simon H. and Zhu, Guanghui and Jones, Christopher W. and Lively, Ryan P.},
abstractNote = {Direct CO2 capture from atmospheric air is gaining increased attention as one of the most scalable negative carbon approaches available to tackle climate change if coupled with the sequestration of CO2 geologically. Furthermore, it can also provide CO2 for further utilization from a globally uniform source, which is especially advantageous for economies without natural sources of carbon-based feedstocks. Solid-supported amine-based materials are effective for direct air capture (DAC) due to their high CO2 uptakes and acceptable sorption kinetics at ambient temperature. In this work, we describe the application of polymer/silica fiber sorbents functionalized with a primary amine-rich polymer, poly(ethylenimine) (PEI), for DAC. Monolithic fiber sorbents composed of cellulose acetate and SiO2 are synthesized via the dry-jet, wet quench spinning technique. These fibers are then functionalized with PEI (Mw 800 Da) in a simple and scalable postspinning infusion step and tested for CO2 capture under pseudoequilibrium conditions as well as under breakthrough conditions. An investigation to study the effect of feed flow rate, adsorption temperature, and presence of moisture in the feed on the CO2 breakthrough performance of a densely packed fiber sorbent module is conducted to highlight the potential application of this class of structured contactors in direct air capture. The pressure drop of these contactors at high gas velocities is also evaluated. Finally, a vacuum-assisted desorption step is demonstrated for production of high-purity CO2 from both dry and humid ambient air mixtures.},
doi = {10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06203},
journal = {ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering},
number = 5,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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