Perspectives on CO₂ Separation and Capture Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon dioxide was identified as one of the main contributors to climate change several years ago. Svante Arrhenius quantified the contribution of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect already in 1896 (S. Arrhenius, On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground, Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Series 5, Volume 41, 1896, pp. 237-276).

However, only recently, climate change was broadly considered as one of the most important threats for the environment and humanity. Therefore, significant research effort is currently made for capturing CO₂ from the flue gases produced from fossil fuel combustion or other industrial processes. Despite such intensive research efforts, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered as a significant engineering challenge, with the main goal being the development of an efficient technology that does not substantially increase the overall cost of processes and especially the electricity cost.

Therefore, this Special Issue calls for the submission (including research articles, communications, and reviews) of experimental, computational, and theoretical studies, focusing on carbon capture and storage, including (but not limited to): (a) CO₂ absorption, chemical or physical, including the development and evaluation of novel solvents and the rigorous thermodynamic modeling of such CO₂-containing non-ideal multicomponent mixtures, (b) adsorption on surfaces, (c) membrane separation, (d) cryogenic separation, (e) chemical looping combustion methods.

Dr. Ioannis Tsivintzelis
Guest Editor

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• CO₂ capture
• post-combustion separation
• pre-combustion separation
• alkanolamines
• amines
• chemical absorption
• physical absorption
• adsorption on surfaces
• membrane separation
• chemical looping
• phase equilibrium
• equations of state
• thermophysical properties
• process design
• novel solvents
• phase separation solvents