CO2 Adsorption Performance and Kinetics of Ionic Liquid-Modified Calcined Magnesite

Na Yang; Rong Xue; Guibo Huang; Yunqian Ma; Junya Wang

doi:10.3390/nano11102614

CO₂ Adsorption Performance and Kinetics of Ionic Liquid-Modified Calcined Magnesite

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2021 Oct 5;11(10):2614. doi: 10.3390/nano11102614.

Authors

Na Yang¹, Rong Xue¹, Guibo Huang¹, Yunqian Ma¹, Junya Wang²

Affiliations

¹ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China.
² Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.

Abstract

CO₂ is a major contributor to global warming, and considerable efforts have been undertaken to capture and utilise it. Herein, a nanomaterial based on ionic liquid (IL)-modified calcined magnesites was investigated for CO₂ capture. The synthesised nanomaterial (magnesite modified using [APMIM]Br) exhibited the best adsorption performance of 1.34 mmol/g at 30% IL loading amount, 50 °C, 0.4 MPa and 150 mL/min. In particular, the obtained nanomaterial could be regenerated at a low temperature of 90 °C for 3 h, and its CO₂ adsorption capacity of 0.81 mmol/g was retained after eight cycles. FT-IR results showed that the imidazole ring and C-N group are directly related to CO₂ adsorption capacity. Moreover, improving the conjugative effect of the imidazole ring enhanced the adsorption performance. Further, CO₂ was adsorbed on the adsorbent surface and incomplete desorption decreased the BET surface area and CO₂ adsorption capacity. Additionally, four models were selected to fit the adsorption kinetics. The results show that the adsorption mechanism fits the pseudo-first-order model well.

Keywords: CO2 capture; ionic liquid; kinetics; magnesite; nanomaterial.