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Title: N-doped sponge-like biochar: a promising CO2 sorbent for CO₂/CH₄ and CO2/N₂ gas separation
Author: Lourenço, Mirtha A.O.
Frade, Tânia
Bordonhos, Marta
Castellino, Micaela
Pinto, Moisés L.
Bocchini, Sergio
Keywords: Biochar
Pyrolyzed chitosan
CO2 capture
Gas adsorption-separation
Issue Date: 15-Aug-2023
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Sponge-like biochar sorbents were prepared from the dissolution of chitosan followed by freeze-drying methodology and pyrolysis at three different temperatures (400, 600, and 800 °C) to produce sustainable N-enriched carbon materials with enhanced CO2 uptake from CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 gas mixtures. The pyrolysis process was reproduced by operando TGA-IR to study the gas evolved from the pyrolysis process. It was found that the pyrolysis temperature highly influences the textural properties of the chitosan sponge-like biochar materials, impacting mainly the amount and type of the N-species on the sample but also at the microporosity. XPS revealed the transformation of the amino groups from chitosan into pyridinic-N, pyrrolic-N, graphitic center-N, and graphitic valley-N or pyridine-N oxide species during the pyrolysis process. Increasing the pyrolysis temperature enhanced the quantity of the latter two N-type species. All sponge-like biochars adsorbed higher amounts of CO2 compared with CH4 and N2 gases, with maximum CO2 uptake (∼1.6 mmol⋅g−1) at 100 kPa and 25 °C for the sample pyrolyzed at 600 °C (named CTO_P600). Biochar produced at 800 °C showed no longer adsorption capacity for CH4 and N2, having the highest selectivity value for CO2/N2 separation under continuous flux conditions among all prepared biochar sorbents. Isobaric CO2 adsorption measurements on the CTO_P600 sorbent revealed that physisorption phenomena predominantly governed the CO2 adsorption process, which was confirmed by its consistent adsorption capacity after 10 consecutive adsorption–desorption cycles. Moreover, the biochar exhibited tolerance to water vapor adsorption, indicating its suitability to work under moisture-rich conditions.
Peer review: yes
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/38054
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.144005
ISSN: 1385-8947
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