The objective of this work is to produce activated carbon from sugar beet molasses containing TiO2 for CO2 adsorption and reduction. Textural properties of activated carbons were obtained based on the adsorptiondesorption isotherms of nitrogen at 77 K. The specific surface areas of activated carbons were calculated by the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method. The volumes of micropores were obtained by density functional theory method. The adsorption isotherms of CO2 were measured up to the pressure of 1 atm at a temperature of 40• C. The best activated carbon adsorbed 1.9 mmol/g of CO2.
Microporous carbons prepared from commercial activated carbon WG12 by KOH and/or ZnCl2 treatment were examined as adsorbents for CO2 capture. The micropore volume and specific surface area of the resulting carbons varied from 0.52 cm3/g (1374 m2/g) to 0.70 cm3/g (1800 m2/g), respectively. The obtained microporous carbon materials showed high CO2 adsorption capacities at 40 bar pressure reaching 16.4 mmol/g.
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