Scientists Working To Capture CO2 From Our Atmosphere : Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are at an all-time high, in 2018 we jumped from 300 parts per million (ppm) to over 400 ppm. Now, scientists have been trying to figure out how they can capture CO2 from the air to help us all to slow or reverse the effects of global warming and climate change.
A team of scientists led by Professor Liyuan Deng, at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is conducting studies on membranes that could help filter the air. “The results are first and foremost important in terms of climate change,” says professor Deng, from the Department of Chemical Engineering.
[blockquote align=”none” author=”NPG Asia Materials recently published an article on the NTNU research”]these nanostructured membranes constitute promising candidates for gas separation technologies aimed at CO2 capture.[/blockquote]
Power plants that burn a lot of fossil fuels are required to have a special membrane to try to filter out some of the CO2 that enters our atmosphere. The membranes need to be both permeable for CO2 and also separate the CO2 from the other gases, like nitrogen.
“We didn’t think this membrane material was going to be suitable,” says Deng.
The team’s initial results with the membrane proved to be unsuccessful. They were unable to capture much of anything, but then they put the membrane in water. Once the membrane dried out, CO2 was able to penetrate the membrane and filter out more nitrogen.
Source: IntelligentLiving
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