Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is broadly recognised as having the potential to play a key role in meeting climate change targets, delivering low carbon heat and power, decarbonising industry and, more recently, its ability to facilitate the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. However, despite this broad consensus and its technical maturity, CCS has not yet been deployed on a scale commensurate with the ambitions articulated a decade ago. Thus, in this paper we review the current state-of-the-art of CO2 capture, transport, utilisation and storage from a multi-scale perspective, moving from the global to molecular scales. In light of the COP21 commitments to limit warming to less than 2 °C, we extend the remit of this study to include the key negative emissions technologies (NETs) of bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), and direct air capture (DAC). Cognisant of the non-technical barriers to deploying CCS, we reflect on recent experience from the UK's CCS commercialisation programme and consider the commercial and political barriers to the large-scale deployment of CCS. In all areas, we focus on identifying and clearly articulating the key research challenges that could usefully be addressed in the coming decade.

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward

The removal of CO2 and N2 from natural gas: A review of conventional and emerging process technologies

Hydrogen sulfide removal is a long-standing economic and environmental challenge faced by the oil and gas industries. H2S separation processes using reactive and non-reactive absorption and adsorption, membranes, and cryogenic distillation are reviewed. A detailed discussion is presented on new developments in adsorbents, such as ionic liquids, metal oxides, metals, metal–organic frameworks, zeolites, carbon-based materials, and composite materials; and membrane technologies for H2S removal. This Review attempts to exhaustively compile the existing literature on sour gas sweetening and to identify promising areas for future developments in the field.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00768

Hydrogen Sulfide Capture: From Absorption in Polar Liquids to Oxide, Zeolite, and Metal-Organic Framework Adsorbents and Membranes.

Industrial separation processes comprise approximately 10% of the global energy demand, driven largely by the utilization of thermal separation methods (eg, distillation) Significant energy and cost savings can be realized using advanced separation techniques such as membranes and sorbents One of the major barriers to acceptance of these techniques remains creating materials that are efficient and productive in the presence of aggressive industrial feeds One promising class of emerging materials is zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), an important thermally and chemically stable subclass of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) The objectives of this paper are (i) to provide a current understanding of the synthetic methods that enable the immense tunability of ZIFs, (ii) to identify areas of success and areas for improvement when ZIFs are used as adsorbents, (iii) to identify areas of success and areas for improvement in ZIF membranes A review is given of the state-of-the-art in ZIF synthesis procedures and novel ZIF formation pathways as well as their application in energy efficient separations

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks: next-generation materials for energy-efficient gas separations.

Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane in the presence of carbon dioxide (ODPC) is a sustainable approach and an attractive catalytic route for propylene production with less environmental footprint than the conventional oxidative dehydrogenation path with oxygen. Researchers have considered CO2 as a mild oxidant that can overcome the problems of over-oxidation and low propylene selectivity, that are typically associated with the current synthesis routes. This article provides a critical review on the current mechanistic understanding of three different catalyst types used in the ODPC reaction based on experimental studies; (i) zeolites with different frameworks, (ii) porous materials-supported metal oxides, and (iii) transition metal oxides and other metal catalysts. A detailed review of the literature compares the framework, pore structure, nature of active sites, reducibility, and the role of promoters and supports for each type of catalytic materials in the absence and presence of CO2, and is followed by a thorough discussion on the promotional effects of CO2 as a soft oxidant on C H bond scission. Future directions with respect to materials design, synthesis and reaction conditions are also discussed.

Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene with carbon dioxide

Torlon® hollow fiber membranes for organic solvent reverse osmosis separation of complex aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures

Pipeline natural gas is the primary fuel of choice for distributed fuel cell-based applications due to its well-developed infrastructure. The concentration of sulfur in odorized pipeline natural gas is about 30 ppm, with the acceptable level being <1 ppm for catalyst stability in such applications. Packed bed technology for desulfurization suffers from several disadvantages including high pressure drop and slow regeneration rates that require large unit sizes. This paper describes a new sorption platform utilizing hollow fibers with polymer “binder”, impregnated with high loadings of sulfur selective zeolite sorbent “fillers”. Temperature Swing Adsorption (TSA) can be utilized to thermally cycle the sorbents between sorption and regeneration cycles. A simplified flow pattern minimizes pressure drop, while a porous core morphology maximizes sorption efficiencies and high surface area to volume ratio structures can enable smaller bed sizes. This new technology represents a fusion of membrane science and ads...

Dhaval A. Bhandari

Papers

Torlon® hollow fiber membranes for organic solvent reverse osmosis separation of complex aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures

Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Desulfurization of Natural Gas

Thermally moderated hollow fiber sorbent modules in rapidly cycled pressure swing adsorption mode for hydrogen purification

Toluene impurity effects on CO2 separation using a hollow fiber membrane for natural gas

Dual layer hollow fiber sorbents: Concept, fabrication and characterization