Nitrogen Atom-Doped Layered Graphene for High-Performance CO 2 /N 2 Adsorption and Separation

Weifeng Lyu, Linghui Sun, Lu Wang, Zemin Ji, Sainan Zhou, Yong Chen and Xiaoqing Lu
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Weifeng Lyu: State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China
Linghui Sun: State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China
Lu Wang: State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China
Zemin Ji: State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China
Sainan Zhou: School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China
Yong Chen: School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China
Xiaoqing Lu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: The development of high-performance CO 2 capture and separation adsorbents is critical to alleviate the deteriorating environmental issues. Herein, N atom-doped layered graphene (N-MGN) was introduced to form triazine and pyridine as potential CO 2 capture and separation adsorbents via regulation of interlayer spacings. Structural analyses showed that accessible surface area of the N-MGN is 2521.72 m 2 g −1 , the porosity increased from 9.43% to 84.86%. At ultra-low pressure, N-MGN_6.8 have exhibited a high CO 2 adsorption capacity of 10.59 mmol/g at 298 K and 0.4 bar. At high pressure, the absolute adsorption capacities of CO 2 in N-MGN_17.0 (40.16 mmol g −1 ) at 7.0 MPa and 298 K are much larger than that of N-doping slit pore. At 298 K and 1.0 bar, the highest selectivity of CO 2 over N 2 reached up to ~133 in N-MGN_6.8. The research shows that N doping can effectively improve the adsorption and separation capacity of CO 2 and N 2 in layered graphene, and the interlayer spacing has an important influence on the adsorption capacity of CO 2 /N 2 . The adsorption heat and relative concentration curves further confirmed that the layered graphene with an interlayer spacing of 6.8 Å has the best adsorption and separation ability of CO 2 and N 2 under low pressure. Under high pressure, the layered graphene with the interlayer spacing of 17.0 Å has the best adsorption and separation ability of CO 2 and N 2 .

Keywords: N doping; interlayer spacing; Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation; CO 2 capture and separation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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