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Sol-Gel Materials for Carbon Mineral Sequestration

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Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy

Part of the book series: Advances in Sol-Gel Derived Materials and Technologies ((Adv.Sol-Gel Deriv. Materials Technol.))

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Sol-gel technology was used to design a new, energetically efficient and economically viable CO2 sequestration technology. Calcium silicate grains were embedded into an inorganic silica matrix. These composites were used for the mineral sequestration of CO2; that is, for permanent carbon fixation. It was found that the mineral grains presented better carbonation efficiency when embedded into an inorganic porous silica matrix. The reaction by-products were calcite particles of a few microns and silica particles of a few tenths of nanometres in size. They could be recycled as raw materials for commercial processes, such as coatings and mortar, for example, depending on their morphology, purity, and particle size and on calculations of the total cost scenarios. Finally, sol-gel composites can also be tailored to capture other atmospheric gases, not just CO2, favouring the viability of this technology.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigación (Gobierno de España), who funded project CIT-440000-09-1 (Programa Nacional de Investigación Aplicada).

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  1. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (CSIC-US), Av. Américo Vespucio 49, 41092, Sevilla, Spain

    V. Morales-Flórez

  2. Dpto. Física de LA Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    L. Esquivias

  3. Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Cádiz, Av. Republica Saharaui, s/n, 11510, Cádiz, Puerto Real, Spain

    A. Santos

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  2. City University of New York, New York, 10001, USA

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  3. Ceramics Department, Rutgers University, Brett Road 98, Piscataway, 08854, New Jersey, USA

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Morales-Flórez, V., Esquivias, L., Santos, A. (2012). Sol-Gel Materials for Carbon Mineral Sequestration. In: Aparicio, M., Jitianu, A., Klein, L. (eds) Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy. Advances in Sol-Gel Derived Materials and Technologies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1957-0_9

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