期刊
GREEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
卷 7, 期 3, 页码 411-422出版社
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2020.10.002
关键词
Polyester waste; Green conversion; N-doped porous carbon; CO(2 )capture; Solar steam generation
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51903099]
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology [3004013134]
- 100 Talents Program of the Hubei Provincial Government
- Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
This study proposes a strategy for the sustainable conversion of waste plastics into valuable carbon materials. By stepwise crosslinking, waste polyesters are transformed into nitrogen-doped porous carbon (NPC) with well-defined microstructures. The NPC exhibits excellent performance in CO2 capture and solar steam generation, making it a promising material for solar energy conversion and environmental protection.
Sustainable conversion of waste plastics into valuable carbon materials for diverse applications provides a promising strategy to dispose the municipal and industrial waste plastics. However, it remains a challenge to precisely control the crosslinking reaction for transforming waste polyesters into N-doped porous carbon (NPC) with well-defined microstructures. Herein, we put forwards a strategy of stepwise crosslinking using melamine and ZnCl2/NaCl eutectic salts to convert poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) into NPC at 550 degrees C. We prove that firstly melamine reacts with PET degradation products to form a crosslinking structure, and subsequently ZnCl2/NaCl promote the dehydration and decarboxylation of the crosslinking structure to generate a more thermally stable crosslinking structure. The coordination of two tandem crosslinking reactions is critical to control the microstructure of NPC. Without activations, NPC shows large specific surface area of 1173 m(2) g(-1), abundant N dopants, and rich oxygen-containing groups. These combined features endure NPC with excellent performance in CO2 capture and solar steam generation, e.g., high CO2 adsorption capacity of 6.47 mmol g(-1) and evaporation rate of 1.62 kg m(-2 )h(-1). More importantly, NPC is compared to or prevails over previous carbon-based CO2 adsorbents or photothermal materials. This work will advance the research on green reutilization of low-cost polyester wastes to prepare sustainable carbon for solar energy conversion, environmental protection, etc. (C) 2020 Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
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