Ionic liquids (ILs) physical immobilization in solid materials is a key strategy for developing efficient and low cost CO 2 capture processes. In this work, two porous commercial substrates with different characteristics (silica and alumina) were impregnated with ILs by physical wet method. Imidazolium based IL combined with [Br]and [Tf 2 N]anions were used in impregnation process. CO 2 sorption capacity and selectivity (CO 2 /N 2) of these materials were investigated. The best results regarding CO 2 /N 2 selectivity and CO 2 sorption were obtained with [Tf 2 N]anion. In relation to solid support, commercial alumina exhibited enhanced CO 2 uptake and higher selective capacity (CO 2 /N 2) (6.1 (± 0.1)). Combination of commercial alumina as support and 20 wt% of mbmim [Tf 2 N] resulted in higher CO 2 /N 2 selectivity of 9.5 ± 1.0. In addition, this material also showed fast sorption kinetics when compared to pure IL besides reuse capacity.
Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture from natural gas, and further utilization is an essential issue for greenhouse gas reduction. Poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) assemble ILs unique properties, with those of polymers being versatile materials for CO 2 capture from flue gas (CO 2 /N 2 ) and natural gas (CO 2 /CH 4 ). PILs based on polyurethanes obtained with different polyols and ILs cations were blended in different proportions aiming to improve PILs CO 2 sorption capacity. Two different polyols structures (PC and PG) and ILs counter cations (imidazolium and phosphonium) were tested to evaluate how they influence PILs blends CO 2 sorption performance. PILs and PILs blends were characterized by SEC, FTIR, DSC, TGA, DMTA, AFM, and CO 2 sorption that were carried out using the pressure-decay technique. PILs blends presented good thermal stability and mechanical properties. PILs blend polyurethane backbones compositions can be tuned aiming to increase CO 2 sorption capacity. As far as we know, all obtained PILs blends presented higher CO 2 sorption capacity results compared with other Poly(ionic liquid)s reported in the literature. The best CO 2 sorption result was obtained for PIL blend with imidazolium (PLIPC95-PG5-BMIM = 116.9 mgCO 2 /g at 303.15 K and 10 bar).
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