Low-cost reusable material could facilitate capture of carbon dioxide from power plants

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Georgia Tech graduate student Jeffrey Drese displays a tubular reactor filled with the HAS adsorbent dispersed in sand. The reactor will be used to test the new material for its ability to capture carbon dioxide. Credit: Gary Meek
Georgia Tech graduate student Jeffrey Drese displays a tubular reactor filled with the HAS adsorbent dispersed in sand. The reactor will be used to test the new material for its ability to capture carbon dioxide. Credit: Gary Meek

Researchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gas. Produced with a simple one-step chemical process, the new material has a high capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide – and can be reused many times.


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