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Investigating the Effect of NO on the Capture of CO2 Using Superbase Ionic Liquids for Flue Gas Applications

Greer, AJ; Taylor, SFR; Daly, H; Quesne, M; Catlow, CRA; Jacquemin, J; Hardacre, C; (2019) Investigating the Effect of NO on the Capture of CO2 Using Superbase Ionic Liquids for Flue Gas Applications. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering , 7 (3) pp. 3567-3574. 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05870. Green open access

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Abstract

The effect of acidic gases present in flue gas, specifically NO, on the capture of CO2 by the superbase ionic liquid, trihexyltetradecylphosphonium benzimidazolide ([P66614][Benzim]), is reported. An online mass spectrometry technique was utilized to study the CO2 uptake of the ionic liquid during multiple absorption and desorption cycles of a gas feed containing NO and CO2 at realistic flue gas concentrations, and it was found that while NO alone could bind irreversibly, the CO2 capacity of the IL was largely unaffected by the presence of NO in a cofeed of the gases. In situ attenuated total reflection infrared was employed to probe the competitive absorption of CO2 and NO by [P66614][Benzim], in which carbamate and NONOate species were observed to cobind to different sites of the benzimidazolide anion. These effects were further characterized by analyzing changes in physical properties (viscosity and nitrogen content) and other spectroscopic changes (1H NMR, 13C NMR and XPS). Density functional theory computations were used to calculate binding energies and infrared frequencies of the absorption products, which were shown to corroborate the results and explain the reaction pathways.

Type: Article
Title: Investigating the Effect of NO on the Capture of CO2 Using Superbase Ionic Liquids for Flue Gas Applications
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05870
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05870
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: CO2 capture; Competitive absorption; Density functional theory; Flue gas; Infrared; Ionic liquids; NO
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072558
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