High Capacity Immobilized Amine Sorbents

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A method is provided for making low-cost CO.sub. 2 sorbents that can be used in large-scale gas-solid processes. The improved method entails treating an amine to increase the number of secondary amine groups and impregnating the amine in a porous solid support. The method increases the CO.sub. 2 capture capacity and decreases the cost of utilizing an amine-enriched solid sorbent in CO.sub. 2 capture systems.

High Capacity Immobilized Amine Sorbents

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A method is provided for making low-cost CO.sub. 2 sorbents that can be used in large-scale gas-solid processes. The improved method entails treating an amine to increase the number of secondary amine groups and impregnating the amine in a porous solid support. The method increases the CO.sub. 2 capture capacity and decreases the cost of utilizing an amine-enriched solid sorbent in CO.sub. 2 capture systems.

SO2-Resistant Immobilized Amine Sorbents for CO2 Capture

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The solid amine sorbent for CO2 capture process has advantages of simplicity and low operating cost compared to the MEA (monoethanolamine) process. Solid amine sorbents reported so far suffered from either low CO2 capture capacity or low stability in the flue gas environment. This project is aimed at developing a SO2-resistant solid amine sorbent for capturing CO2 from coal-fired power plants with SCR/FGD which emits SO2 ranging from 15 to 30 ppm and NO ranging from 5 to 10 ppm. The amine sorbent we developed in a previous project degraded rapidly with 65% decrease in the initial capture capacity in presence of 1% SO2. This amine sorbent was further modified by coating with polyethyleneglycol (PEG) to increase the SO2-resistance. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) was found to decrease the SO2-amine interaction, resulting in the decrease in the maximum SO desorption temperature (Tmax) of amine sorbent. The PEG-coated amine sorbent exhibited higher stability with only 40% decrease in the initial capture capacity compared to un-coated amine sorbents. The cost of the solid amine sorbent developed in this project is estimated to be less than $7.00/lb; the sorbent exhibited CO2 capture capacity more than 2.3 mmol/g. The results of this study provided the scientific basis for further development of SO2-resistant sorbents.

Regenerable Sorbent Technique for Capturing CO.sub. 2 Using Immobilized Amine Sorbents

Regenerable Sorbent Technique for Capturing CO.sub. 2 Using Immobilized Amine Sorbents PDF Author:
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The disclosure provides a CO.sub. 2 absorption method using an amine-based solid sorbent for the removal of carbon dioxide from a gas stream. The method disclosed mitigates the impact of water loading on regeneration by utilizing a conditioner following the steam regeneration process, providing for a water loading on the amine-based solid sorbent following CO.sub. 2 absorption substantially equivalent to the moisture loading of the regeneration process. This assists in optimizing the CO.sub. 2 removal capacity of the amine-based solid sorbent for a given absorption and regeneration reactor size. Management of the water loading in this manner allows regeneration reactor operation with significant mitigation of energy losses incurred by the necessary desorption of adsorbed water.

Development of Solid Amine Immobilized Silica Sorbent and Gram Scale Process for CO2 Capture

Development of Solid Amine Immobilized Silica Sorbent and Gram Scale Process for CO2 Capture PDF Author: Mathew Isenberg
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Category : Amines
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Over the past 50 years the use of fossil fuels has lead to a 22% increase in the CO2 concentration levels in the atmosphere. It has also been recognized that the energy producing sector, coal-fired power plants in particular, contribute approximately 33% of the total global emissions. It is of immediate concern that a technology be developed that can be retrofit to the power plants in order to capture CO2 from the flue gas, eliminating a significant source of CO2 emissions. Current commercialized technologies such as liquid amine scrubbing using monoethanolamine (MEA) and chilled ammonia capturing processes have demonstrated successful capture of CO2 gas but involve using highly toxic and corrosive compounds with high heats of regeneration. Development of a solid immobilized amine sorbent that exhibits high CO2 capture and cyclical stability may prove to be a more sensible solution due to its low heat of regeneration, toxicity, and corrosive properties. In this study, fumed silica was chosen as the solid support because of its high commercial availability and high surface area. In this thesis, silica based sorbents were developed through impregnation of tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA) at various weight percent ratios and further modified with the addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to aid in dispersing TEPA and cyclical stability of the sorbent. Although the development of sorbents using the same compounds have been reported on in literature, there has been no work done using infrared (IR) characterization to determine the way the compounds interact with each other and with the surface. This thesis has been constructed in order to develop an understanding of these surface interactions and use it to fabricate the best possible sorbent. The IR results concluded that the co-impregnation of PEG and TEPA with corresponding TEPA/PEG/SiO2 weight ratios of 24/36/40 yielded the highest CO2 capture capacity (2.53 mmolCO2/gramSorbent) and best cyclical stability (3% degradation). A gram scale process was also developed for the adsorption and regeneration of CO2 gas from a feed stream of 15% CO2. The process was designed mirroring industrial conditions and resulted in good initial CO2 regeneration concentrations.

In Situ Infrared and Mass Spectroscopic Study on Amine-immobilized Silica for CO2 Capture

In Situ Infrared and Mass Spectroscopic Study on Amine-immobilized Silica for CO2 Capture PDF Author: Jak Tanthana
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Category : Adsorption
Languages : en
Pages : 2005

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The rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 has become a major environmental concern in recent years. Coal-fired power plants, releasing flue gas containing CO2, account for approximately 30% of total CO2 emissions worldwide. Solid amine sorbents such as amine immobilized on silica (SiO2) has gained significant consideration for capturing CO2 from flue gas due to its lower operation cost and equipment corrosion compared to existing liquid amine process. The -NH2 functional group of these solid amine sorbents binds CO2 through acid-base interactions, allowing CO2 to adsorb and desorb at temperatures in the range of the flue gas operating conditions. Studies have shown that the solid amine sorbents can initially adsorb CO2 at the economical level compared to that of liquid amine processes. The CO2 capture capacity of solid amine sorbents reduce over the period of time due to the thermal instability and contaminant poisoning of the amine. Our current development focuses on improving the sorbent stability and mechanistic study of the interactions between the amine, CO2, and contaminants present in the flue gas. This dissertation presents a study of the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to enhance the stability of amine-immobilized silica. Long term stability of tetraethylenepentamine-immobilized on silica (TEPA/SiO2) and PEG-enhanced TEPA/SiO2 (PEG/TEPA/SiO2) were evaluated by performing multiple cycles of CO2 capture on the sorbents under the constant monitoring of in situ infrared and mass spectrometers. PEG/TEPA/SiO2 shows slower degradation than TEPA/SiO2. The IR absorbance spectra reveal that the accumulation of the strongly adsorbed CO2 species as bicarbonates and carboxylates is the cause of sorbent degradation. The IR absorbance spectra further suggested that the presence of PEG decreased the formation of these strongly adsorbed CO2, reducing the degradation of the sorbent. The interactions between the -NH2 groups, CO2, and other electron acceptor species present in the flue gas govern the CO2 capture capacity and long term stability of the sorbent. The flue gas from coal-fired power plants contains 40-250 ppm of SO2 and 5-7 vol% of H2O. Although the presence of these species in the flue gas is expected to influence the performance of the sorbent, the extent of the interaction between the amine groups and these species has not been studied. CO2 capture under the presence of 250 ppm in the CO2 adsorption stream was performed on TPSENa sorbent (29 wt% TEPA, 18 wt% PEG, 49 wt% SiO2, 3.8 wt% EPON, and 0.2 wt% Na2CO3). The initial CO2 capture capacity of TPSENa was 1.195 mmol-CO2/g-sorb. which decreased to 0.532 mmol-CO2/g-sorb. after 24 cycles of CO2 capture under presence of 250 ppm SO2. The CO2 capture capacity of TPSENa showed a slight reduction from 0.869 to 0.764 mmol-CO2/g-sorb. under the absence of SO2. The IR absorbance spectra indicate that formation of both strongly-adsorbed CO2 species and SO2-adsorbed species accelerated the degradation of the sorbent in the presence of SO2. The development of high stability solid amine sorbent requires an in-depth understanding of the interaction between CO2 and the amine groups. The mechanism of CO2 adsorption on amine groups follows acid-base type interaction where the CO2 acts as the acidic species and amine groups are the basic site. The products of the reaction between CO2 and the amine are ammonium ion (NH3+), carbamate, and bicarbonates. The evidence of the formation of carbamate and bicarbonates are commonly available in literatures while that of the ammonium ion is scarce. The in situ injection of HCl on TEPA/SiO2 was performed under constant infrared spectroscopic monitoring to elucidate the acid-base reaction. The IR spectra of TEPA/SiO2 after HCl injection shows similar absorption features to those of TEPA/SiO2 during CO2 adsorption, evidences for the formation of NH3+. IR spectra also suggests that HCl is likely to react with primary amine (-NH2) of TEPA and then further reacts with secondary amine (-NH), resulting in the decrease in the available amine sites for CO2 adsorption. The in situ injection of H2O on TEPA/SiO2 caused the removal of TEPA from SiO2. The results of this study have provided the several key information of which should prove to be helpful in the development of highly stable solid amine sorbent. The study of PEG-enhanced TEPA/SiO2 has shown that the stability can be improved by addition of chemical stabilizers which slows down the formation of the carboxylate species. The SO2 poisoning of the sorbent is caused by (i) accelerating the formation of strongly adsorbed CO2 species and (ii) depositing of SO2-adsorbed species on the amine sites. The further studies should focus on development of the sorbent with high resistance to HCl and SO2. Additional of aromatic amine to the alkyl amine on silica support may reduce the HCl and SO2 poisoning as the aromatic amine has a strong reactivity toward the acidic gaseous species. The addition of these compounds requires optimization to ensure that the sorbent resistance to SO2 while stability and capture capacity are not significantly affected.

In Situ FTIR and Tubular Reactor Studies for CO2 Capture of Immobilized Amine Sorbents and Liquid Amine Films

In Situ FTIR and Tubular Reactor Studies for CO2 Capture of Immobilized Amine Sorbents and Liquid Amine Films PDF Author: Walter Christopher Wilfong
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Pages : 333

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In situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and tubular reactor studies with mass spectrometry (MS) revealed the mechanisms and kinetics of CO2 diffusion and adsorption/desorption for immobilized amine sorbents and liquid amine films. CO2 mass transfer limitations of immobilized tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA)/silica sorbents were studied by a novel in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS) technique using benzene as a surrogate CO2 probe molecule. Results showed that (i) adsorbed CO2 creates an interconnected network of ammonium-carbamate ions and carbamic acid that inhibits CO2 diffusion, and (ii) readsorption of desorbed CO2 along the pore wall and at the external surfaces limits the CO2 removal rate from the sorbent. CO2 diffusion and adsorption/desorption for different thicknesses of TEPA films were investigated by attenuated total reflectance (ATR) and DRIFTS. Results showed that CO2 strongly adsorbed to NH and NH2 at the top surface of thicker films and formed a strongly bound, interconnected network that reduced the access of CO2 to the bulk amines. Adsorption/desorption of CO2 onto/from immobilized amine particle and pelletized sorbents was studied in a tubular reactor set-up to investigate the sorbents' performance under different operating conditions. Results showed enhanced CO2 capture on the sorbents in the presence of H2O vapor (wet adsorption), likely resulting from liberation of previously inaccessible amine groups of TEPA. Increasing the CO2 partial pressure by pulsing pure CO2 after wet adsorption, and steam regeneration of the adsorbed species in the CO2 gas environment allows the desorbed CO2 concentration to reach 99+%. A novel, cross-linked porous PVA support (PPc) was synthesized and impregnated with TEPA, polyeythylene glycol 200 (PEG), and other additives for testing as a low cost and stable CO2 capture sorbent. Results showed that PPc exhibited high surface area and pore volume similar to those of silica. Increasing the PEG-OH/TEPA-N ratio of the sorbent enhanced its CO2 capture performance due to dispersion of the NH2 and NH groups by PEG. In situ DRIFTS studies showed a weaker binding strength of CO2 to the amines of the PPc-supported than silica-supported sorbent, suggesting that using PPc sorbents could reduce the cost of sorbent regeneration.

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation PDF Author: Wei-Yin Chen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781441979926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2130

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There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic. Reducing the 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from stationary and mobile sources is a gigantic task involving both technological challenges and monumental financial and societal costs. The pursuit of sustainable energy resources, environment, and economy has become a complex issue of global scale that affects the daily life of every citizen of the world. The present mitigation activities range from energy conservation, carbon-neutral energy conversions, carbon advanced combustion process that produce no greenhouse gases and that enable carbon capture and sequestion, to other advanced technologies. From its causes and impacts to its solutions, the issues surrounding climate change involve multidisciplinary science and technology. This handbook will provide a single source of this information. The book will be divided into the following sections: Scientific Evidence of Climate Change and Societal Issues, Impacts of Climate Change, Energy Conservation, Alternative Energies, Advanced Combustion, Advanced Technologies, and Education and Outreach.

Amine-pillared Nanosheet Adsorbents for CO2 Capture Applications

Amine-pillared Nanosheet Adsorbents for CO2 Capture Applications PDF Author: Hui Jiang
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Amine-functionalized solid adsorbents have gained attention within the last decade for their application in carbon dioxide capture, due to their many advantages such as low energy cost for regeneration, tunable structure, elimination of corrosion problems, and additional advantages. However, one of the challenges facing this technology is to accomplish both high CO2 capture capacity along with high CO2 diffusion rates concurrently. Current amine-based solid sorbents such as porous materials similar to SBA-15 have large pores diffusion entering molecules; however, the pores become clogged upon amine inclusion. To meet this challenge, our group's solution involves the creation of a new type of material which we are calling-amino-pillared nanosheet (APN) adsorbents which are generated from layered nanosheet precursors. These materials are being proposed because of their unique lamellar structure which exhibits ability to be modified by organic or inorganic pillars through consecutive swelling and pillaring steps to form large mesoporous interlayer spaces. After the expansion of the layer space through swelling and pillaring, the large pore space can be functionalized with amine groups. This selective functionalization is possible by the choice of amine group introduced. Our choice, large amine molecules, do not access the micropore within each layer; however, either physically or chemically immobilized onto the surface of the mesoporous interlayer space between each layer. The final goal of the research is to investigate the ability to prepare APN adsorbents from a model nanoporous layered materials including nanosheets precursor material MCM-22(P) and nanoporous layered silicate material AMH-3. MCM-22(P) contains 2-dimensional porous channels, 6 membered rings (MB) openings perpendicular to the layers and 10 MB channels in the plane of the layers.1 However, the transport limiting openings (6 MB) to the layers is smaller than CO2 gas molecules.2,3 In contrast, AMH-3 has 3D microporous layers with 8 MB openings in the plane of the layers, as well as perpendicular to the layers, which are larger than CO2 molecules. Based on the structure differences between nanosheets precursor material MCM-22(P) and nanoporous layered silicate material AMH-3, the latter might be more suitable for CO2 capturer application as an APN candidate material. However, none of the assumptions above have been approved experimentally. In this study, the influence of the amine loading on adsorption capacity and kinetics of adsorption for the mixed porosity material pillared MCM-22 (P) (also called MCM-36) is studied systematically, in order to determine a potential route to achieve a final material with both high amine loading and high adsorption capacity. We first synthesized MCM-22(P), followed by swelling and pillaring to create MCM-36. Polymeric amines such as polyethylenimine (PEI) are used as an organic component of the supported amine adsorbents, with varying polymer loadings within the adsorbents used. The kinetics and diffusion properties of carbon dioxide capture on a MCM-36 pillared material impregnated with amine containing Polyethylenimine polymers has been investigated. It was determined that the introduction of amine polymer cannot be used to improve the capture capacity of the support over that of the bare material, due to the fact that with the addition of a high loading of amine polymer the large pore diffusion channels become impossible for carbon dioxide molecules to diffuse through. This sets an upper limit to the capture capacity of polymer impregnated MCM-36 for carbon dioxide which does not surpass that for the initial bare material, and greatly reduces the utility of using this sort of amine-solid adsorbent for carbon capture plans in the future.

Regenerable Solid Imine Sorbents

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Two new classes of amine-based sorbents are disclosed. The first class comprises new polymer-immobilized tertiary amine sorbents; the second class new polymer-bound amine sorbents. Both classes are tailored to facilitate removal of acid anhydrides, especially carbon dioxide (CO.sub. 2), from effluent gases. The amines adsorb acid anhydrides in a 1:1 molar ratio. Both classes of amine sorbents adsorb in the temperature range from about 20.degree. C. upwards to 90.degree. C. and can be regenerated by heating upwards to 100.degree. C.

Chemistry of Silica and Zeolite-Based Materials

Chemistry of Silica and Zeolite-Based Materials PDF Author: Abderrazzak Douhal
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128178140
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Chemistry of Silica and Zeolite-Based Materials covers a wide range of topics related to silica-based materials from design and synthesis to applications in different fields of science and technology. Since silica is transparent and inert to the light, it is a very attractive host material for constructing artificial photosynthesis systems. As an earth-abundant oxide, silica is an ideal and basic material for application of various oxides, and the science and technology of silica-based materials are fundamentally important for understanding other oxide-based materials. The book examines nanosolvation and confined molecules in silica hosts, catalysis and photocatalysis, photonics, photosensors, photovoltaics, energy, environmental sciences, drug delivery, and health. Written by a highly experienced and internationally renowned team from around the world, Chemistry of Silica and Zeolite-Based Materials is ideal for chemists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, physicists, biologists, biomedical sciences, environmental scientists, toxicologists, and pharma scientists. --- "The enormous versatility of silica for building a large variety of materials with unique properties has been very well illustrated in this book.... The reader will be exposed to numerous potential applications of these materials – from photocatalytic, optical and electronic applications, to chemical reactivity in confined spaces and biological applications. This book is of clear interest not only to PhD students and postdocs, but also to researchers in this field seeking an understanding of the possible applications of meso and microporous silica-derived materials." - Professor Avelino Corma, Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ-CSIC) and Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain Discusses the most important advances in various fields using silica materials, including nanosolvation and confined molecules in silica hosts, catalysis and photocatalysis, and other topics Written by a global team of experts from a variety of science and technology disciplines Ideal resource for chemists, materials scientists, and chemical engineers working with oxide-based materials