Abstract
Due to the intensification of the greenhouse effect and the emphasis on the utilization of CO2 resources, the enrichment and separation of CO2 have become a current research focus in the environment and energy. Compared with other technologies, pressure swing adsorption has the advantages of low cost and high efficiency and has been widely used. The design and preparation of high-efficiency adsorbents is the core of the pressure swing adsorption technology. Therefore, high-performance porous CO2 adsorption materials have attracted increasing attention. Porous adsorption materials with high specific surface area, high CO2 adsorption capacity, low regeneration energy, good cycle performance, and moisture resistance have been focused on. This article summarizes the optimization of CO2 adsorption by porous adsorption materials and then applies them to the field of CO2 adsorption. The internal laws between the pore structure, surface chemistry, and CO2 adsorption performance of porous adsorbent materials are discussed. Further development requirements and research focus on porous adsorbent materials for CO2 treatment in industrial waste gas are prospected. The structural design of porous carbon adsorption materials is still the current research focus. With the requirements of applications and environmental conditions, the integrity, mechanical strength and water resistance of high-performance materials need to be met.
1 Introduction
Due to the massive consumption of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), greenhouse gases cause global temperature rise, and it is imminent to curb global warming. As the 195 member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reached the Paris Agreement at the Paris Climate Change Conference, the agreement established a global action plan to limit the rise in global average temperature this century to 2°C of pre-industrial revolution levels or lower. And try to control the global temperature rise below 1.5°C to avoid the crisis brought by climate change, which also builds a bridge between today’s policy and the climate goals by the end of this century (). With the goal of controlling the temperature rise of 2°C, both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have emphasized the important role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in achieving long-term high-efficiency carbon dioxide emission reduction. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered, one of the effective measures to cope with the challenge of climate change. It has irreplaceable advantages in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. CCS has strong adaptability to the existing energy system, stable operation, and can achieve substantial emission reduction of carbon dioxide in the power system. It is essential to ensure energy security and achieve sustainable development (). CCS is the only way for coal-intensive industries such as coal chemical industry, cement, steel and oil refineries to achieve substantial carbon dioxide emissions reductions. CCS and renewable energy can form complementary technologies to achieve decarbonization goals (). Carbon dioxide direct air capture technology (DAC) and biomass energy CCS technology (BECCS) can achieve large-scale harmful carbon emissions (; Ma et al., 2021). The combination of CCS and steam methane reforming can obtain “blue hydrogen”, also called carbon-neutral hydrogen, which promotes the transformation of the energy system to carbon-neutral (). However, the current promotion of CCS still has a high degree of uncertainty, and its progress depends on the degree of reduction in energy consumption and cost of the whole chain of CCS, the cost competition between CCS and other low-carbon technologies. The gain of carbon capture benefits throughout the life cycle of CCS and other factors. Figure 1 shows the “2 °C scenario (2DS)” energy technology route given by IEA in the “Energy Technology Outlook 2017” (Orr, 2009). The model predicts that from 2015 to 2060, the cumulative carbon emission reduction achieved through CCS technology will be 14%. In 2050 and 2060, the carbon dioxide emission reduction through CCS will need to reach 4.2 Gt and 4.9 Gt, respectively. In the below 2°C scenario (B2DS) route predicted by the IEA, by 2060, the cumulative carbon emission reduction contribution contributed by CCS needs to reach 32%. How to efficiently capture the carbon dioxide in the flue gas is a favorable way to effectively control the increase of greenhouse gases.
FIGURE 1
CCS is a unified whole of the organic connection of carbon dioxide capture, transportation, storage, and utilization. The technology involved in the entire process chain is diverse and complex, and the development stages of different technologies are not the same. According to the technical characteristics of the carbon dioxide separation process, the carbon dioxide capture technology of thermal power plants is usually divided into most mature carbon capture technology is the post-combustion carbon dioxide capture technology of chemical absorption based on alcohol amine absorbents (
The post-combustion capture system is shown in Figure 2. The post-combustion capture process can be divided into the following three steps: 1) Pre-purification of flue gas, boiler flue gas is purified by denitration, dust removal, and desulfurization to meet the requirements of CO2 separation equipment; 2) CO2 capture, flue gas enters CO2 absorption/adsorption device (such as MEA absorption tower) realizes the removal of CO2, and the flue gas (mainly N2, water vapor) that does not contain (or contains low concentration) CO2 is discharged through the chimney; 3) Absorbent/adsorbent Regeneration, the CO2-rich absorbent or adsorbent releases high-purity CO2 to achieve regeneration. It is worth noting that the CO2 content in the flue gas during post-combustion capture is the lowest among the three capture technologies, only 3–20 vol% (
FIGURE 2

Schematic diagram of the combustion CO2 capture device of a coal-fired power plant (Zaman and Lee, 2013).
2 Adsorption Mechanism of Carbon Dioxide
The adsorption method uses an adsorbent to selectively adsorb a specific gas to achieve the purpose of separation. The complete adsorption process includes two steps: adsorption and desorption. Periodic adsorption and desorption are used to complete the concentration of carbon dioxide and the regeneration of adsorbent materials. The continuous operation can be achieved by parallel adsorption towers (Shen et al., 2017; Li et al., 2020a). According to the different adsorption mechanism, the adsorption method can be divided into physical and chemical adsorption. Physical adsorption refers to the combination of adsorbate molecules and the surface of the adsorbent through microscopic forces (Coulomb force and Van der Waals force) to form stable adsorption without forming chemical bonds. When the adsorbed gas contacts the adsorbent, due to the attraction of the adsorbent surface, the adsorbed gas will form an adsorption layer on the surface of the adsorbent. This adsorption layer is called the adsorption phase. The density of the adsorption phase is much greater than thegas density. The remaining gravitational force on the surface and the gravitational force of the gas molecules are combined, and the adsorption affinity produced by the mutual combination is called the adsorption force. There are generally three sources of adsorption force: 1) Van der Waals force including repulsive force and attractive force prevailing between atoms and molecules; 2) Electrostatic Coulomb force between charged particles; 3) Due to the induction of the permanent dipole moment, the adjacent molecules produce charge displacement, which causes the induced polarization and produces the induced force of the induced dipole moment. The desorption of adsorbed gas molecules on the surface of the framework material can be completed under low energy consumption, and the reuse of the framework material is realized, which is the most significant advantage of physical adsorption. Physical adsorption adsorbent has good regeneration performance, but its selectivity is poor, and the adsorption capacity is low at high temperatures. Chemical adsorption refers to the formation of chemical bonds between gas molecules and the surface of the adsorbent to bond them together.
The adsorbent has a high adsorption capacity and good selectivity, but its desorption temperature is high, and regeneration consumes a lot of energy. Regarding the renewal and recycling of adsorbent materials in the process of adsorbing carbon dioxide by the adsorption method, the adsorption process generally includes the following: temperature swing adsorption (TSA), regenerative pressure swing adsorption (PSA), and electric swing adsorption (ESA). TSA relies on temperature changes to achieve carbon dioxide adsorption separation and regeneration of adsorbent materials and relies on pressure changes to achieve carbon dioxide separation and adsorption materials, while PSA and ESA change the coupling effect of temperature and pressure, as shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1
| Adsorption process | Principle | Advantage | Disadvantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | Change system pressure | Simple system and high stability | Pressurization is required before adsorption; air intake energy consumption is large; regeneration is not complete |
| TSA | Different temperature, different adsorption capacity | High adsorption efficiency and thorough regeneration | Large thermal inertia; long regeneration time; hot gas medium is easy to dilute the purity of gas produced; large energy consumption |
| Electric swing adsorption (ESA) | The essence is temperature swing adsorption, desorption electric heating | Energy efficiency; high heating rate | Immature process |
| Vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) | Change system pressure (Vacuum) | Suitable for low pressure, large scale applications | High capture energy consumption |
Common adsorption carbon capture processes.
Pressure swing adsorption technology is a fixed-bed separation technology. The separation or purification of carbon dioxide and the regeneration of adsorption materials are carried out by changing the adsorption pressure under constant temperature conditions. Generally speaking, at the same temperature, the equilibrium adsorption capacity increases as the pressure increases; when the pressure decreases, the equilibrium adsorption capacity also decreases. Therefore, adsorption can be carried out at high pressure, and desorption can be carried out at low pressure. Pressure swing adsorption uses periodic pressure changes to make the adsorption material adsorb and separate carbon dioxide, this is pressure swing adsorption (Liu et al., 2011; Shen et al., 2017; Wawrzyńczak et al., 2019). The general pressure swing adsorption operation process indicates high-pressure adsorption and atmospheric desorption. Nowadays, vacuum pressure swing has been developed, which means adsorption under normal pressure or slightly higher than normal pressure and desorption under vacuum conditions. Pressure swing adsorption achieves adsorption and desorption by periodically changing the pressure,, including adsorption at high pressure, and then achieves desorption by reducing the pressure or vacuuming. Electric swing adsorption is to directly heat the adsorbent particles to increase the temperature, so as to achieve the purpose of desorption. This method has the advantages of fast desorption speed and high energy utilization, but this method usually requires the adsorbent material to have good conductivity (
The temperature swing adsorption is simple to operate and easy to implement, but it has higher requirements for the thermal conductivity of the adsorbent material. Temperature swing adsorption relies on the characteristic that the adsorption capacity of carbon dioxide changes with temperature. Under normal circumstances, when the temperature is at the same pressure, the lower the temperature, the equilibrium adsorption capacity increases as the temperature decreases; when the temperature increases, the equilibrium adsorption capacity decreases. Therefore, it can be adsorbed at low temperature and desorbed at high temperatures. The adsorption material can be circulated to adsorb and separate carbon dioxide through periodic temperature changes, demonstrating temperature swing adsorption (Zhao et al., 2019). When capturing carbon dioxide in flue gas, for some adsorption materials with a strong affinity for carbon dioxide, it is challenging to complete the regeneration of the adsorption material if only by changing the pressure. Therefore, temperature swing adsorption is required. There are two types of temperature swing adsorption. One is to use a heating medium to heat, such as purging the adsorption material with high-temperature inert gas, or using the adsorption material’s resistance for electrical heating, and the other is indirect heating, such as the use of coils, jackets, etc. Generally speaking, temperature swing adsorption products have a high recovery rate and low loss. Still, the cycle is long, the investment is enormous, the energy consumption is high, and the service life of the adsorbent is not long. The pressure swing adsorption cycle is short and the adsorbent utilization rate is high, but the recovery rate is low. Therefore, the independent use of temperature or pressure swing methods to recycle molecular sieves has certain defects (
Table 2 lists the main carbon emission sources to which adsorption methods can be applied. Traditional post-combustion carbon capture is the process of separating CO2 from the flue gas formed after the combustion of fuel and air. Among them, the type of fuel and excess air coefficient determine the total gas volume and dry basis CO2 concentration of flue gas, ranging from 3% to 4% of natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) to pulverized coal boiler power station and integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) ranging from 14%. Pre-combustion carbon capture requires the conversion of fuel (coal, heavy oil, residual carbon, etc.) into syngas or reformed gas through steam reforming or partial oxidation, decarbonization, and combustion in a gas turbine to generate electricity, or CO through water-gas shift (WGS) reaction into CO2 and H2, followed by decarbonization. For the latter case, the CO2 concentration in the shift gas can be as high as 60%, so it is easier to separate CO2 and simultaneously obtain high-purity H2 as an energy carrier or chemical raw material. It should be noted, however, that the initial fuel gasification/reforming process is expensive to operate. In addition to the above two typical capture technologies, adsorption methods can also be applied to carbon capture from emission sources such as steel mills, cement plants, biogas, and flare gas. Recently, adsorption-based direct air capture (DAC) has also received more and more attention as a potential negative emission technology.
TABLE 2
| Component | Coal burning | Smoke | Biogas | Syngas | Air | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waste incineration | IGCC | NGCC | Cement kiln | Household waste | Agricultural waste | Agri-Food/Industrial Waste | Wabash River Coal Gasification Project | Tampa IGCC Power Station | |||
| O2 (vol/vol) | 6 | 7–14 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 0–1 | <0.5 | 20.946 | |||
| N2 (vol/vol) | 76 | Balance gas | 66 | 76 | 59 | 0–5 | 0–1 | 3.3 | 78.084 | ||
| CO2 (vol/vol) | 11 | 6–12 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 34–38 | 19–33 | 26 | 14.9–17.1 | 14.4 | 0.041 |
| H2O(vol/vol) | 6 | 10–18 | 14 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0.3 | ||
| Ar (vol/vol) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.9 | 0.934 | ||||
| CH4(vol/vol) | 50–60 | 60–75 | 68 | 1–2.2 | 0.1 | ||||||
| H2 (vol/vol) | 32.3–34.4 | 38.3 | |||||||||
| CO(vol/vol) | 42.2–46.7 | 42.7 | |||||||||
| SO2(ppm, parts per million) | 300–5000 | 200–1500 | 10–200 | 5–1200 | |||||||
| NOx (ppm) | 500–800 | 200–500 | 10–100 | 10–300 | 100–1500 | ||||||
| H2S(ppm) | 100–900 | 3000–10,000 | 400 | 17–107 | 200 | ||||||
| COS(ppm) | 9–162 | 10 | |||||||||
Main emission sources of common adsorption carbon capture (
The adsorption method to capture carbon dioxide has the outstanding advantages of simple process, mild operating conditions, extensive operating flexibility, sizeable operating temperature range, low operating cost, stable performance, and no corrosion and pollution, suggesting a carbon dioxide capture method with excellent development potential. The post-combustion capture process of flue gas is characterized by its high temperature, atmospheric pressure, and low CO2 concentration. Therefore, the physical adsorption method greatly affected by the CO2 concentration cannot effectively separate CO2. In contrast, the solvent absorption method requires the gas to be cooled to a specific temperature first, which has a significant energy loss and high energy consumption for regeneration of the absorption solvent. It is corrosive to equipment (Rochelle, 2009). If a solid adsorbent is used to capture CO2 in this temperature range, the above problems can be effectively avoided.
3 Research Direction of CO2 on Porous Adsorption Materials
3.1 Specific Surface Area of the Porous Adsorbent
To continuously meet the demand for a high specific surface area of adsorbent materials, under the inspiration of nature, researchers have designed and synthesized a wealth of porous materials, which has promoted the rapid development of porous materials. In order to facilitate the study and discussion of it, according to the composition of the porous material framework, the carbon dioxide porous adsorbent materials are roughly divided into two categories: 1) inorganic porous materials, such as zeolites, mesoporous silica, and metal oxide and 2) inorganic-organic hybrid porous materials, such as metal organic frameworks (MOFs) (Xu et al., 2016; Senker, 2018; Zhao et al., 2020). These two types of materials have different structural characteristics and therefore have distinct material properties. The comparison of their properties is shown in Table 3. It can be seen that although the pore size and crystal type of the two porous adsorption materials are more common, the chemical stability and thermal stability are still quite different, which limits their application environment (including temperature and pH, etc.). MOFs materials are more diverse in chemistry and structure than zeolite.
TABLE 3
| Characteristic | Zeolites | MOFs | Carbon material | Metal oxide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pore size | Microporous, mesoporous, macroporous | Microporous, mesoporous, macroporous | Microporous, mesoporous, macroporous | Microporous, mesoporous, macroporous |
| Crystallinity | Typical | Typical | / | / |
| Thermal stability | High | Low-medium | Low-medium | Low |
| Chemical stability | Good (except acid and alkali environment) | Poor-good | Good | Poor |
| Chemical diversity | Medium | Very high | Low-medium | Poor |
| Structural diversity | High | Very high | Very high | Poor |
Comparison of the performance of two common porous materials.
Zeolite is an aluminosilicate with a porous crystal structure and a TO4 (T is Si or Al) tetrahedral periodic structure. Its unique molecular sieve effect is widely used in gas separation processes. In the framework of a molecular sieve, primary structural units such as silicon-oxygen tetrahedron (SiO4) and aluminum-oxygen tetrahedron (AlO4) combine to form a variety of multi-ring secondary structural units through shared oxygen atoms (Figure 3). Oxygen bridge bonds connect the multiple rings to form molecular sieve materials with different types of three-dimensional network structures (
FIGURE 3

Common framework types of zeolite molecular sieve (
TABLE 4
| Parameter | 3A | 4A | 5A | 10X | 13X |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-framework cations | 2/3K2O | Na2O | 3/4CaO | 4/5CaO | Na2O |
| 1/3Na2O | 1/4 Na2O | 1/5 Na2O | |||
| Si/Al ratio | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.6–3.0 | 2.6–3.0 |
| Effective pore size (nm) | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Main adsorption | Ethylene | Short carbon alkanes | Normal/Isomeric Alkanes | Aromatic hydrocarbons | Carbon dioxide |
Specifications of commonly used molecular sieves.
In addition, the strong cation exchange properties make zeolite easy to modify, and the cost of zeolite is low, which is very suitable for large-scale production applications (Thang et al., 2014). Pham et al. (Pham et al., 2016) studied the CO2 capture performance of synthetic nano-zeolites by temperature swing adsorption (TSA). The results show that under the conditions of 20°C and 1bar, the adsorption capacity of nano-zeolite for CO2 is 4.81 mmol/g. Using ideal adsorption solution theory (IAST), the selective adsorption of nano-zeolite is calculated to be 18.65. The CO2 removal rate was maintained above 88% through ten cycles of adsorption-desorption regeneration experiments. Zeolite has strong hydrophilicity, and the apparent decrease of CO2 adsorption performance under humid conditions limits its further development. In zeolite materials, factors such as the composition and structure of the framework, the replacement of cations, the purity of the zeolite, the size and distribution of the pore size and other factors will affect the adsorption performance of the zeolite molecular sieve to adsorb carbon dioxide.
Although zeolite molecular sieves have a high specific surface area and uniform pore structure, their poor framework controllability and difficult control during the synthesis process restrict their development. In order to make up for its shortcomings and play its strengths, after continuous exploration and research, a major challenge has been completed in the synthesis of solid crystalline materials. Without changing the topological structure of the material, the chemical composition, functionality, and pore size of the material are systematically controlled. Yaghi’s research group first proposed the concept of MOFs and synthesized the landmark new porous material MOF-5 (Figure 4) (
FIGURE 4

MOF-5 three-dimensional structure diagram (
TABLE 5
| Material | BET (m2/g) | Langmuir (m2/g) | Capacity (wt%) | Pressure (bar) | Temp (K) | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mg-MOF-74 | 1174 | 1733 | 27.5 | 1 | 298 | |
| 27.2 | 1 | 298 | Yazaydin et al., (2009) | |||
| 1800 | 2060 | 26.7 | 1 | 298 | Mason et al., (2011) | |
| 1495 | 1905 | 26 | 1 | 296 | ||
| Co-MOF-74 | 957 | 1388 | 24.9 | 1 | 298 | Yazaydin et al., (2009) |
| Ni-MOF-74 | 936 | 1356 | 23.9 | 1 | 298 | Yazaydin et al., (2009) |
| Zn-MOF-74 | 19.8 | 1 | 296 | Yazaydin et al., (2009) | ||
| HKUST-1 | 1492 | 18.4 | 1 | 298 | Yazaydin et al., (2009) |
Comparison of CO2 adsorption performance of common adsorbent materials under low pressure (
The pore size of the mesoporous silica material is between 2 nm and 50 nm. Mesoporous silica materials mainly include silica nanoparticles, silica hollow spheres, silica nanotubes, mesoporous silica foams and aerogels. Mesoporous silica has the advantages of high specific surface area, large pore volume, narrow pore size distribution, and good regeneration stability. It has also made significant progress in CO2 capture The widely used mesoporous silica (Sharp et al., 2021), including MCM-41, SBA-15 and KIT-6 series, can successfully separate CO2 from the mixture of CH4 and N2. However, the hydrothermal stability of mesoporous silica is low, which is due to the easy hydrolysis of Si-O-Si in the presence of water vapor at high temperatures (Rafigh and Heydarinasab, 2017). Zhang et al. (Zhang et al., 2019) used the silicate supernatant extracted from the alkali melt as the raw material, and used the addition polymer of polypropylene glycol and ethylene oxide (polyether) P123 and trimethylbenzene (TMB) was used as the structure orientation. Agent and swelling agent, mesoporous silica foam materials were prepared under acidic conditions. The study found that the CO2 adsorption capacity can reach 4.7 mmol/g at 75°C and 1bar.
3.2 Adsorption Selectivity
The CO2 molecule has a large quadrupole moment and a high polarization rate (29.11 × 10−25 cm3), so the polar surface of the porous adsorbent has a strong inducing effect on CO2 and has a large affinity. With the deepening of the understanding of the structure and chemical properties of ZIFs materials, researchers began to explore the relationship between CO2 adsorption and separation performance and structure. Banerjee et al. (
Traditional physical adsorbents such as activated carbon and molecular sieves have small adsorption capacity, low selectivity, and sensitivity to adsorption temperature. MOFs have the characteristics of good selectivity, easy regeneration, high thermal and chemical stability, large specific surface (up to 7000 m2/g), large pore volume (55–90%), and low density (0.21–1 g/cm3)). Their pore structure is regular and adjustable, and the organic ligands can be modified to design and synthesize crystalline materials with specific physical properties and chemical functions (
FIGURE 5

The selective absorption of CO2 by MOFs: (A) the effect of PEI loading on the adsorption selectivity of MIL-101 (Cr, Mg) adsorbent (
Metal oxides separate carbon dioxide from mixed gases by reacting with CO2 molecules. Common metal oxide materials mainly include calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, lithium zirconate/lithium silicate, and other materials. Carbon dioxide is an acid gas, which is easier to adsorb on the basic sites of metal oxides. Therefore, metal oxide adsorbents have high adsorption capacity, good selectivity, vast sources, and low cost. MgO and CaO are alkaline adsorbents, and their adsorption mechanism is usually the acid-base neutralization reaction with the acid gas CO2 to form carbonate (Li et al., 2005; Shen and Zhang, 2020). Among them, the MgO-based adsorbent has a higher theoretical adsorption capacity, about 1.1 g⋅g−1, and is considered an ideal medium temperature CO2 adsorbent. However, in practical applications, the adsorption rate of MgO-based adsorbents is slow, the actual adsorption capacity is low, generally lower than 0.01 g⋅g−1, and the cycle stability is poor. These problems limit the industrial use of MgO-based adsorbents. The extensive application of the above (Wang et al., 2011). In order to increase the adsorption capacity of MgO-based adsorbents, researchers used a loading method with porous alumina, activated carbon, and mesoporous silica as carriers (
FIGURE 6

Carbon dioxide’s total capacity and breakthrough capacity on the MgO/Al2O3 adsorbent in the presence and absence of water vapor in multiple absorption/desorption cycles (
The polar surface of the CO2 adsorption material is another important factor that affects the CO2 adsorption performance, especially the type and quantity of nitrogen-containing groups in the carbonaceous adsorption material. Surface functionalization methods of porous carbon materials include two types (Li et al., 2019; Li et al., 2020c): 1) utilization of functionalized precursors (such as nitrogen-rich compounds) to obtain heteroatom-doped porous carbon in one step and 2) post-treatment to introduce specific functional groups. In terms of stability, the former has outstanding advantages. The surface modified by nitrogen functional groups have a solid inducing effect on CO2 molecules, and strong interaction with them, which enhances the selective recognition of CO2 molecules and improves the CO2 adsorption capacity of the material. Lee et al. (
FIGURE 7

Effect of nitrogen modified carbon-based adsorbent on CO2 selectivity: (A) Nitrogen-containing pitch-based activated carbon (NPC) selectivity as a function of CO2 mole fraction at 298 K and 1 bar total pressure (
3.3 Adsorption Stability
In practical applications, an essential condition for measuring the performance of an adsorption material is its cyclic adsorption performance. After many times of adsorption and desorption, its adsorption performance should not be significantly degraded (Liu et al., 2021). According to analysis, the alkali metal salt is in a molten state at high temperature (350–400°C). It is easy to flow in a wide range, resulting in poor cycle stability of the adsorbent. However, the main challenge of MgO-based adsorbents is that due to their high (Mg2+ - O2-) lattice energy, the actual CO2 adsorption capacity of MgO is very low, and the CO2 adsorption rate is poor. In recent years, studies have shown that modifying MgO with alkali metal carbonate or nitrate can effectively improve its CO2 capture performance. Since the alkali metal nitrate is in a molten state in the medium temperature range (250–500°C), the reason why it promotes the adsorption performance of the MgO-based adsorbent mainly lies in the following two aspects: First, the CO2 in the gas phase is in the molten alkali metal nitrate. There is a certain degree of solubility in nitrate, which can be converted into by O2- in nitrate; second, molten alkali metal nitrate can dissolve a certain degree of MgO, which will have high bond energy (Mg2+ - O2-) dissociates into (Mg2+ ... O2-) ion pair. Therefore, the molten alkali metal salt can transfer the gas-solid reaction interface of MgO and CO2 to the molten phase for dissolution and nucleation growth processes, thereby increasing the adsorption rate and adsorption capacity of the MgO-based adsorbent material. Zhang et al. (Zhang et al., 2014) studied the promoting effect and mechanism of molten alkali metal nitrate on the adsorption of CO2 by MgO. The results show that the conversion rate of MgO is significantly increased under the promotion of molten NaNO3. In order to verify the promoting effect of molten nitrate on the adsorption of CO2 by MgO, they investigated the effect of mixed nitrates with different melting points on the adsorption performance of MgO. The results showed that when the adsorption temperature is higher than the melting point of the mixed nitrate, molten nitrate can promote the adsorption of CO2 by MgO. They believe that molten nitrate can dissolve part of MgO, thereby reducing the lattice energy of MgO. MgO exists in the form of (Mg2+ ... O2-) ion pairs in the molten salt, and then reacts with CO2 to generate MgCO3. They pointed out that the main place of carbonation reaction in MgO is at the triple point of molten alkali metal nitrate, gas-phase CO2 and solid-phase MgO, as shown in Figure 8.
FIGURE 8

Molten NaNO3 promotes the CO2 adsorption mechanism of MgO-based adsorbents (Zhang et al., 2014).
Pozzo et al. (
FIGURE 9

Molten alkali metal nitrate promotes CO2 adsorption by MgO-based adsorbents (
Regarding the stability of porous carbon adsorbents, studies have found that the type and number of nitrogen-containing groups in porous carbon will be affected by the pyrolysis temperature. With the increase in pyrolysis temperature, the number of nitrogen-containing active sites gradually decreased. The nitrogen-containing groups gradually changed from pyrrolic N-5 and pyridonic N-5′ to Quatemary-N (To et al., 2016;
As for MOF materials, the framework of MOFs is formed by connecting metal ions and ligands through coordination bonds. This coordination bond is easily damaged under harsh conditions such as high temperature, humidity, and acid-base environment, resulting in the collapse of the entire skeleton. Metal-organic framework materials Ni-MOF-74 and Co-MOF-74 have higher water stability and hydrophobicity than Mg-MOF-74. Yang et al. (
Modification of MOF-74 after synthesis is currently the most widely reported modification method in the literature. Chemical solution impregnation is the most common and effective way, such as ammonia impregnation and ethylenediamine solution impregnation. Cao et al. (
In addition to NOX, the flue gas also contains impurities such as water vapor, SOX, OX, and heavy metals. If the adsorbent is not tolerant to these impurities, the overall economics of the CO2 separation process will increase. In general, moisture will adversely affect the CO2 adsorption process of various physical sorbents. The vast majority of reports on physical sorbents have not studied the effect of humidity, so the technology to absorb CO2 from flue gas may include an upstream drying step. It is generally believed that CO2 adsorbents have a high affinity for NOX and SOX, which may adversely affect the CO2 adsorption capacity of the material. Therefore, in most cases, NOX and SO2 need to be removed from the flue gas before CO2 capture.
4 Summary and Outlook
Comprehensive literature reports show that the design of high-efficiency CO2 adsorption materials must match the characteristics of the application object and meet the requirements of the application process. The essential features of CO2 molecules are small dynamic size (approximately 3.3 Å) and electric quadrupole properties compared with other gases, CO2 molecular polarizability is higher. The CO2 volume concentration of the gas source after combustion is usually less than 15%, the total pressure is about 1 atm, and other components include N2, H2O, etc., The adsorption and separation of this gas source are the most difficult because the total pressure is not high, the volume flow rate is large, and the CO2 concentration (partial pressure) is low. Abundant micropores, high specific surface area, and adjustable surface chemistry are ideal adsorbent characteristics in terms of matching dynamic size and polarizability of CO2 molecules. At the same time, the porous adsorption material has excellent chemical stability and thermal stability (inert atmosphere). It has obvious advantages when applied to the separation of complex gas sources, which is also a key consideration. However, the current porous adsorbent materials are obviously insufficient in macro and micro structure control, especially in pore structure control and surface chemical modulation. The macroscopic and microscopic structural parameters of porous adsorbent materials were analyzed, and the corresponding design and preparation strategies were summarized. It is urgent to make a breakthrough in pore structure regulation while maintaining the advantages of porous adsorbent materials with developed pores and excellent stability. From the perspective of adsorption kinetics, eliminating internal and external diffusion is the key. As shown in Figure 10, effective measures include constructing multi-level pores, introducing mesopores, and reducing the size of material structural units in any dimension, representing current hot issues in the structural design of CO2 adsorption porous materials.
FIGURE 10

Design criteria for high-performance absorbent materials.
In short, in principle, the physical adsorption process is mainly based on the intermolecular attraction between the guest molecules and the active points on the surface of the porous solid adsorbent, which is a surface process. From the perspective of adsorption effect, large adsorption capacity, high selectivity, fast adsorption kinetics and excellent cycle stability are the key parameters for maintaining high performance in adsorption separation. Efficient adsorption materials should have abundant micropores (storage space), specific surface chemistry (with strong interaction), short diffusion paths (multi-level pores, small-scale structural units) and excellent structural stability (mechanical properties) good). As mentioned earlier, post-combustion carbon capture technology has the following characteristics: relatively low CO2 partial pressure (3–20 vol%), contains water vapor (1–10 vol%) (White et al., 2003;
The monolithic material is a structural material in which the internal framework and the pores are continuous. Common monolithic materials include cordierite, cinnamon dioxide, polymers, and porous carbon materials. They have the following characteristics:
1) The design is flexible, easy to operate, and can meet the needs of the macroscopic appearance of the application.
2) The staggered skeleton and pores form an isotropic microstructure, which can ensure the uniform diffusion of the fluid in all directions;
3) The mass transfer resistance is small, the contact efficiency is high, and the penetration is quick. One of the current research hotspots is designing and preparing functional monolithic porous carbon, which includes explicitly developing a new type of polymerization system or a new type of carbon source, precise control of the pore structure, and surface-oriented functionalization. The design and realization of a series of multi-stage pores is the primary goal of precise pore structure control. CO2 adsorption separation is a process of fluid transmission, diffusion, and storage. The macropores and mesopores in adsorption materials function as the channels for rapid CO2 transmission in this process, ensuring rapid adsorption kinetics. The abundant micropores of the adsorption material can be used as the CO2 storage place ensuring high adsorption capacity. In nature, organisms, ranging from towering trees to small system organizations, generally use multi-level structures as organizational frameworks to complete their life processes, which involve fluid diffusion, transmission, and storage, such as the transmission of water and nutrients in plants. After thousands of years of evolution of the survival of the fittest, the multi-level structure is still the main structural organization form, indicating that the structure has certain advantages, which is also the inspiration for researchers from nature. Given the advantages and disadvantages of various adsorption materials’ structure and performance, as well as inspired by the structure and organization of natural organisms and their fluid transportation and diffusion behavior, it can be concluded that the multi-level pore monolithic structure is an ideal organization structure.
Although porous carbon materials have achieved good adsorption and separation effects, most of them are powder samples, and there are usually problems such as pore blockage during the molding process (Williams, 2001;
This review discusses the current research progress of porous adsorption materials from the perspective of industrial flue gas carbon capture. After comparing a variety of carbon adsorption materials, including carbon-based materials, zeolites, metal organic framework materials, and metal oxides, it can be found that different adsorbents immobilize CO2 under very different temperatures, pressures, carbon dioxide concentrations, and relative humidity of the gas. Therefore, the choice of adsorbent needs to be determined according to the actual application. The ideal adsorbent needs to meet the following requirements: the higher the carbon dioxide adsorption capacity, the higher the adsorption and desorption rate, the better the cycle stability, the better the mechanical strength, and the lower the preparation cost. There are currently no suitable adsorbent materials to meet the above requirements, and each material has its inherent advantages and disadvantages. When selecting adsorbents, the advantages and disadvantages of various materials should be comprehensively analyzed, and the lowest-cost adsorbent material that meets the CO2 capture requirements should be chosen according to the actual working conditions.
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HZ conceived of the presented idea. HZ, DX, and YL wrote and revised the manuscript. XQ and YL provided the suggestions. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
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This work was supported by Major Project of Fundamental Research Funds for Universities of Zhejiang Province (FRF20PY005) Innovation and Technology Fund (PRP/067/19AI). Open access funding was provided by Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories For Materials Science And Technology.
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Summary
Keywords
carbon capture and storage, porous adsorption materials, industrial waste gas, adsorption mechanism, carbon dioxide
Citation
Zeng H, Qu X, Xu D and Luo Y (2022) Porous Adsorption Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture in Industrial Flue Gas. Front. Chem. 10:939701. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.939701
Received
09 May 2022
Accepted
03 June 2022
Published
29 June 2022
Volume
10 - 2022
Edited by
Guanjie He, University College London, United Kingdom
Reviewed by
Renjith S. Pillai, Christ University, India
Maria A. Goula, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Lu Liu, Hanyang University, South Korea
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*Correspondence: Hongxue Zeng, zenghongxue@zjtongji.edu.cn; Dong Xu, xud@zjweu.edu.cn; Yang Luo, Yang.Luo@empa.ch
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