1. Textural and Fractal Characteristics of KOH-Activated Microporous Carbon Materials and their Carbon Dioxide Storage Performances
- Author
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Wen Yang, Tao Lin, Wei Chu, and Yan Yan Feng
- Subjects
Chromatography ,Materials science ,General Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Microporous material ,Fractal analysis ,Fractal dimension ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Fractal ,Adsorption ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Carbon dioxide ,medicine ,Carbon ,Activated carbon ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Commercial activated carbon has been activated with KOH in order to investigate the effect of textural characteristics on CO2storage behaviors. The KOH activation has significantly enhanced the textural properties of the adsorbents, as compared to the pristine sample. CO2adsorption tests on the activated carbons were measured at 298 K and pressures up to 5.0 MPa, and the Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm was used to fit the adsorption data. The CO2uptake for the resulting adsorbents was significantly higher than that of the starting adsorbent in the studied pressure range. To better understand the structures and their influences on the CO2uptake, fractal analysis was conducted for the adsorbents on the basis of Frenkel-Halsey-Hill (FHH) equation. Fractal dimensions (D1and D2) that calculated from N2adsorption data were discussed. The results showed that the two fractal dimensions have different influences on CO2adsorption capacity. There was a negative linear correlation between CO2maximum uptake and D1, while CO2adsorption capacity increased with fractal dimension D2increasing. Therefore, it was concluded that appropriate pore structure fractal dimension with narrower PSDs within the microporous range had higher CO2adsorption capacity for the adsorbents.
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- 2015