- Title
- Catalysis of CO2 absorption in aqueous solution by inorganic oxoanions and their application to post combustion capture
- Creator
- Phan, Duong T.; Maeder, Marcel; Burns, Robert C.; Puxty, Graeme
- Relation
- Environmental Science & Technology Vol. 48, Issue 8, p. 4623-4629
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es500667s
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- To reduce CO2 emission into the atmosphere, particularly from coal-fired power stations, post combustion capture (PCC) using amine-based solvents to chemically absorb CO2 has been extensively developed. From an infrastructure viewpoint, the faster the absorption of CO2, the smaller the absorber required. The use of catalysts for this process has been broadly studied. In this manuscript, a study of the catalytic efficiencies of inorganic oxoanions such as arsenite, arsenate, phosphite, phosphate, and borate is described. The kinetics of the accelerated CO2 absorption at 25 °C was investigated using stopped-flow spectrophotometry. The catalytic rate constants of these anions for the reaction of CO2 with H2O were determined to be 137.7(3), 30.3(7), 69(2), 32.7(9), and 13.66(7) M–1s–1, respectively. A new mechanism for the catalytic reaction of oxoanions with CO2 has also been proposed. The applicability of these catalysts to PCC was further studied by simulation of the absorption process under PCC conditions using their experimental catalytic rate constants. Arsenite and phosphite were confirmed to be the best catalysts for CO2 capture. However, considering the toxicological effect of arsenic and the oxidative instability of phosphite, phosphate would be the most promising inorganic catalyst for PCC process from the series of inorganic oxoanions studied.
- Subject
- coal-fired power stations; post combustion capture (PCC); CO2; carbon dioxide
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053260
- Identifier
- uon:15552
- Identifier
- ISSN:1520-5851
- Rights
- This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Environmental Science & Technology, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es500667s
- Language
- eng
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