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Metal Oxides for Carbon Dioxide Capture

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 38

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Anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, is believed to be the main cause for current climate change. This has compelled the humankind to explore numerous technological options to reduce carbon dioxide emission. Among these, the carbon dioxide capture and storage technology is the only cost-effective option to reduce carbon dioxide emission from large point sources.

The development low-cost efficient carbon dioxide capture material is of paramount importance for economical viability of carbon dioxide capture and storage. In this regard, a significant progress has been made in the last one and half decade. The present chapter provides an overview of recent trends in the development of metal oxide based materials for carbon dioxide capture. They find applications in carbon dioxide capture technologies such as adsorption, calcium looping, and chemical looping. The basic principles of adsorption and chemical looping are provided in the beginning of chapter. Subsequent sections discuss the different aspects of capture materials based on magnesium oxide, layered double oxides, calcium oxide, and transition metal oxides. Magnesium oxide is an attractive candidate for pre-combustion carbon dioxide capture owing to its favorable temperature window (200–500 °C). In general, layered double oxides exhibit excellent hydrothermal stability, high selectivity, and high regeneration capability. Calcium oxide based adsorbents operate in the temperature range of 500–900 °C. Oxides of nickel, iron, copper, manganese, and cobalt are the major oxygen carrier materials for chemical looping systems. The insightful observations with respect to carbon dioxide capture performance of these metal oxide systems are presented in the concluding section.

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Bhatta, L.K.G., Bhatta, U.M., Venkatesh, K. (2019). Metal Oxides for Carbon Dioxide Capture. In: Inamuddin, Asiri, A., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 38. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29337-6_3

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