Application of CO2 Loaded Ionic Solvent in Concrete
The increase in CO2 emissions, as a major greenhouse gas, has led to increase in average global temperature. At present CO2 levels in the atmosphere are more than 412 ppm and rising. To succeed in limiting the increase in global temperature to 1.5˚ C above pre-industrial levels, CO2 emissions worldwide must be reduced substantially in all sectors of the economy. Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) provides a means of producing low-carbon electricity from fossil fuels and of reducing CO2 emissions from industrial processes such as gas processing, cement and steel making, where other decarbonization options are limited...
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Balancing the Global Carbon Budget with CCS
In the pre-industrial era, the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere due to the natural geological processes was almost equal to that of sinking back to the land, vegetation, and ocean. It can be said that the carbon cycle was balanced. Due to human evolution especially in the industrial era, human activities create CO2 much faster than natural geological processes, leading to an imbalance of the carbon cycle that directly affects global warming and climate change...
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Carbon Capture Storage and Utilization
Though the post – combustion capture process by absorption – regeneration is the more mature technology in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), its cost reduction is still necessary and requires immediate attention. The high cost in the capture process relates principally to infrastructure, energy and disposal of the CO2 captured.
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Effect of Intermolecular Interaction of Amine on Cp and ΔHvap
The knowledge of intermolecular forces and their strength between molecules of amines is a very important piece of information that one can use to determine the behavior of amines used for capture of carbon dioxide from industrial exhaust gases. In today’s what’s cooking post, we discuss on how the intermolecular forces that hold molecules of the amine together affect its specific heat capacity (Cp) and heat of vaporization (ΔHvap) which in turn, can affect the heat consumption of the amine process.
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