New Way Of Carbon Dioxide Removal From Air Found

Researchers have found a new way of removing and eradicating carbon dioxide from a stream of air that could provide a significant tool in the battle against the climate change. The new system has the power that it can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even when we see down to the roughly 400 parts per million that were currently found in the atmosphere.
It has been seen that out of most of the methods of removal of carbon dioxide from a stream of gas ask for higher concentrations, such as those found in the flue emissions from the fossil fuel-based power plants. Few of the variations have been developed that enable work with the low concentrations found in our atmospheric air, but the new method is importantly less energy-intensive and expensive, the researchers said further.
The technique which is based on passing air through a stack of charged electrochemical plates is properly described in a new paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, by MIT postdoc Sahag Voskian, who explained and developed the work during his PhD, and T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Removal of Carbon Dioxide from air is helpful as it is for the betterment of future atmospheric conditions. "The greatest advantage of this kind of technology over most other carbon capture or carbon absorbing technologies is its binary nature of the adsorbent's affinity to carbon dioxide," explains Voskian in his report.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025170815.htm