Phenol-Formaldehyde Resin-Based Carbons for CO 2 Separation at Sub-Atmospheric Pressures

Noelia Álvarez-Gutiérrez, María Victoria Gil, María Martínez, Fernando Rubiera and Covadonga Pevida
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Noelia Álvarez-Gutiérrez: Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain
María Victoria Gil: Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain
María Martínez: Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain
Fernando Rubiera: Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain
Covadonga Pevida: Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC, Apartado 73, 33080 Oviedo, Spain

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: The challenge of developing effective separation and purification technologies that leave much smaller energy footprints is greater for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) than for other gases. In addition to its involvement in climate change, CO 2 is present as an impurity in biogas and bio-hydrogen (biological production by dark fermentation), in post-combustion processes (flue gas, CO 2 -N 2 ) and many other gas streams. Selected phenol-formaldehyde resin-based activated carbons prepared in our laboratory have been evaluated under static conditions (adsorption isotherms) as potential adsorbents for CO 2 separation at sub-atmospheric pressures, i.e. , in post-combustion processes or from biogas and bio-hydrogen streams. CO 2 , H 2 , N 2 , and CH 4 adsorption isotherms at 25 °C and up to 100 kPa were obtained using a volumetric equipment and were correlated by applying the Sips model. Adsorption equilibrium was then predicted for multicomponent gas mixtures by extending the multicomponent Sips model and the Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST) in conjunction with the Sips model. The CO 2 uptakes of the resin-derived carbons from CO 2 -CH 4 , CO 2 -H 2 , and CO 2 -N 2 at atmospheric pressure were greater than those of the reference commercial carbon (Calgon BPL). The performance of the resin-derived carbons in terms of equilibrium of adsorption seems therefore relevant to CO 2 separation in post-combustion (flue gas, CO 2 -N 2 ) and in hydrogen fermentation (CO 2 -H 2 , CO 2 -CH 4 ).

Keywords: CO 2 separation; adsorption; phenolic-resin; activated carbons (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: 2016
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