The tendency of alkaline (sodium, potassium and lithium) salts of taurine, β-alanine, sarcosine and L-proline to form precipitates under varying operational conditions of CO2 absorption has been investigated. CO2 absorption experiments have been performed at 293.15 and 313.15 K, at partial pressures relevant for capturing CO2 from flue gas conditions and amino acid salt concentrations up to the...

Protonation and carbamate formation are critical reactions for CO2 capture using amine-based absorbents which impact both absorption amine regeneration. In this regard, thermodynamic analysis towards in N-methylaminoethanol solution is carried out with specific attention to the corresponding protonation reactions. The mechanism investigated acquisition of reaction equilibrium constant heat reac...

Ionic liquids (ILs) are proposed as potential “green” solvents with remarkable properties. Deep eutectic (DESs) a new type of ILs additional properties, such higher biodegradability and lower price. DESs absorbents for various gas separations, CO2/N2, CO2/H2/CO, H2S/CH4, N2O/N2. Due to their large number, the screening is crucial. Although high absorption capacities were screened using solubili...

An exchange of Na(+) for H(+) has been proposed to explain why jejunal Na(+) absorption is influenced by luminal concentrations of H(+) and HCO(3) (-). We studied the influence of luminal Na(+) concentration on net HCO(3) (-) absorption by perfusing rat jejunum in vivo. When Na(+) was omitted from the perfusion fluid, HCO(3) (-) absorption diminished by a fixed amount over a range of initial HC...

The NDIR gas detection method is based on the absorption of infrared radiation, which is shown by many polyatomic or heterodimer diatomic gases. For example CO2 gas absorbs IR radiation at 4.26μm wavelength. The detected radiation intensity at this wavelength decreases if the concentration of CO2 increases between source and detector. The extent of absorption mainly depends on the absolute numb...

We report a prototype CO2 gas sensor based on a simple blackbody infrared source and a spectrally narrow quantum cascade detector (QCD). The detector absorption spectrum is centered at 2260 cm−1 (4.4 μm) and has a full width at half maximum of 200 cm−1 (25 meV). It covers strong absorption bands of two spectrally overlapping CO2 isotopomers, namely the P-branch of CO2 and the R-branch of CO2. A...

We employ transient absorption spectroscopy to record the absorption spectrum of photogenerated charge carriers in Cu2O. We have found that CO2 reduction in Cu2O is limited by fast electron-hole recombination. The deposition of RuOx nanoparticles on Cu2O results in a twofold increased yield of long-lived electrons, indicating partially reduced electron-hole recombination losses. This observatio...

Natural photosynthesis harnesses solar energy to convert CO2 and water to value-added chemical products for sustaining life. We present a hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion in which sustainable electrical and/or solar input drives production of hydrogen from water splitting using biocompatible inorganic catalysts. The hydrogen is then used by living cells as a source o...

Narrow channels located in the longwave IR CO2 absorption region between approximately 13.2 and 14.5 μm, the well known CO2 slicing channels, have been proven to be quite effective for the estimates of cloud heights and effective cloud amounts as well as atmospheric temperature profiles. The designs of some of the near-future multi-channel earth observing satellite sensors cannot accommodate th...