Reduction of Greenhouse Effect of Industrial Gas Emissions: a Simple Demonstration of Post-Combustion CO2 Capture and Storage

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The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 18 (2013) pp 238-241
DOI 10.1007/s00897132504

Reduction of Greenhouse Effect of Industrial Gas Emissions: a Simple Demonstration of Post-Combustion CO₂ Capture and Storage

Odette Esam, and Aleksey Vasiliev*

Department of Chemistry, East Tennessee State University, PO Box 70695, Johnson City 37614, TN, vasiliev@etsu.edu
Received May 7, 2013. Accepted August 7, 2013.

Published: 13 September 2013

Abstract. A demonstration experiment on reversible adsorption of CO₂ on mesoporous modified silica gel was developed. This experiment visualizes a technology of post-combustion CO₂ sequestration from industrial emission gases and its storage. The adsorbents were obtained by grafting of amino-containing molecules on the surface of silica gel. CO₂ passed through adsorbent at room temperature for its capture, then desorbed at moderate heating, and stored in the form of insoluble BaCO₃. This demonstration can be included in the course of Industrial Chemistry or Green Chemistry. The students learn about the role of industrial gas emissions in greenhouse effect and the strategies of its reduction.

Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; general chemistry; upper-division undergraduate; graduate education/research; demonstrations; atmospheric chemistry; surface science

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: vasiliev@etsu.edu )

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