Carbon Capture Using Post-Combustion Adsorbents Fundamentals
About the eLearning Course
This eLearning course delves into the principles and challenges of post-combustion CO2 capture using solid adsorbents. It discusses flue gas characteristics, adsorption operations, and the latest research on new adsorbents like Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). You will explore Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) and Temperature Swing Adsorption (TSA) cycles, their advancements, and current obstacles. It also evaluates the readiness of adsorption technology for large-scale use and its Technology Readiness Level, providing a thorough understanding of CO2 capture technologies.
Target Audience
This series provides a wide-ranging overview of CO₂ capture. It is suitable for interested parties, such as environmental staff, facilities engineers, and gas processing engineers, including entry-level (1-2 year) engineers, or anyone interested in a general, technically oriented overview of this approach to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation.
You Will Learn
- Define the basic characteristics of the post-combustion capture approach
- Identify the characteristics of flue gas that make selective removal of CO2 difficult
- Identify the operating principles of adsorbents
- Establish the difference between physisorption and chemisorption
- State the potential benefits of solid adsorbents for CO2 capture
- Establish the difference between PSA and TSA process cycles
- Identify the current research work on new adsorbents for CO2 capture, especially Metal Organic Frameworks
- State why an adsorbent that achieves high CO2 loading is not necessarily a good adsorbent
- Identify advanced PSA cycles for CO2 capture and state why progress has slowed down recently
- Identify the progress for TSA using circulating solids and innovative rapid cycle TSA
- Explain why adsorption is not yet ready for large-scale demonstration and state the Technology Readiness Level for adsorbent-based CO2 capture
Course Content
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Post-Combustion Capture (PCC)
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Capture Using Adsorbents
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Adsorbents Technology
