Articles & Issues
- Language
- English
- Conflict of Interest
- In relation to this article, we declare that there is no conflict of interest.
- Publication history
-
Received March 13, 2023
Accepted September 22, 2023
- This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
All issues
Carbon Dioxide Removal by Chemically and Thermally Reduced Graphene-Based Adsorbents
Abstract
The increase of atmospheric CO 2 concentration over past few decades has hazardous eff ect on environments. In this study,
few layers (7–9) graphene adsorbents, prepared by chemical and thermal reduction techniques, were investigated for CO 2
adsorption. The study showed the eff ect of graphene structures on CO 2 removal at three diff erent temperatures (0, 25, and
50 °C) and in pressure range of 0–5 bar . The diff erent preparation methods induced diff erence in graphene structure in terms
of no. of layers (7–9), interlayer spacing (0.351–0.381 nm), surface area (152–409 m 2 /g), average pore size (2.0–4.1 nm)
and pore volume (0.48–1.63 cm 3 /g) as well as concentration of surface functional groups (10–20% oxygen content), which
in turn aff ected the CO 2 uptake. The chemically reduced graphene with least layer separation and lowest oxygen content
showed highest surface area (409 m 2 /g) and highest CO 2 uptake of 3.48 mmol/g. The thermally reduced graphene samples
exhibited a fl uffi er structure with good layer separation, but smaller surface area and increased pore volume. At 0 °C and
5 bar, CO 2 adsorption capacity (mmol/g) of thermally reduced graphenes was in order of graphene (Ar) (1.21) < graphene
(air) (1.54) < graphene (H 2 ) (2.0). The highest heat of adsorption of 22.5 kJ/mol was observed for graphene (hydrazine) at
initial adsorption conditions.