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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 13, Pages 7606-7615Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00320
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21576156]
- Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program [2014z22075]
- Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy at Tsinghua University
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High-temperature sorption of CO2 via calcium looping has wide applications in postcombustion carbon capture, sorption-enhanced hydrogen production, and inherent energy storage. However, fast deactivations of CaO sorbents and low CO2 uptake in the fast carbonation stage are major drawbacks of this technology. For the first time, we developed a green approach through the reuse of nanosilica derived from coal fly ash (CFA) to enhance both the cyclic CO2 uptakes and the sorption kinetics of CaO sorbents. The as-synthesized nanosilica-supported CaO sorbent showed superior cyclic stability even under realistic carbonation/calcination conditions, and maintained a final CO2 uptake of 0.20 g(CO2) g(sorbent)(-1) within short carbonation time; markedly increased by 155% over conventional CaO sorbent. Significantly, it also exhibited very fast sorption rate and could achieve almost 90% of the total CO2 uptake within similar to 20 s after the second cycle, which is critical for practical applications. These positive effects were attributed to the formation of larnite (Ca2SiO4) and the physical nanostructure of silica, which could yield and keep abundant reactive small pores directly exposed to CO2 throughout multiple cycles. The proposed strategy, integrating the on-site recycling of CFA, appears to be promising for CO2 abatement from coal-fired power plants. (GRAPHICS)
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