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Fabrication of coconut shell-derived porous carbons for CO2 adsorption application

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Biomass-derived porous carbons have been considered as the most potential candidate for effective CO2 adsorbent thanks to being widely-available precursor and having highly porous structure and stable chemical/physical features. However, the biomass-derived porous carbons still suffer from the poor optimization process in terms of the synthesis conditions. Herein, we have successfully fabricated coconut shell-derived porous carbon by a simple one-step synthesis process. The as-prepared carbon exhibits advanced textual activity together with well-designed micropore morphology and possesses oxygen-containing functional groups (reached 18.81 wt %) within the carbon matrix. Depending on the different activating temperatures (from 700 to 800 °C) and KOH/biomass mass ratios (from 0.3 to 1), the 750 °C and 0.5 mass ratio were found to be enabling the highest CO2 capture performance. The optimal adsorbent was achieved a high CO2 uptake capacity of 5.92 and 4.15 mmol·g−1 at 0 and 25 °C (1 bar), respectively. More importantly, as-prepared carbon adsorbent exhibited moderate isosteric heat of adsorption and high CO2/N2 selectivity. The results were revealed not only the textural feature but also the surface functional groups critically determine the CO2 capture performance, indicating coconut shell-derived porous carbon has a considerable potential as a solid-state adsorbent for the CO2 capture.

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Financial support was provided by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. LY21B070005), National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of China and Self designed scientific research project of Zhejiang Normal University (Grant No. 2021ZS06). Demir M would like to acknowledge financial support from TUBITAK 2247 with a project number of 121C217 and Gaziantep KOSGEB.

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  1. Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China

    Jiali Bai, Jiamei Huang, Qiyun Yu & Xin Hu

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Osmaniye, 80000, Turkey

    Muslum Demir & Eda Akgul

  3. College of Engineering Technology, Print and Graphic Media Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 14623, USA

    Bilge Nazli Altay

  4. Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, Marmara University, Istanbul, 34722, Turkey

    Bilge Nazli Altay

  5. Key Laboratory of Urban Rail Transit Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Technology and Equipment of Zhejiang Province, College of Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China

    Linlin Wang

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Bai, J., Huang, J., Yu, Q. et al. Fabrication of coconut shell-derived porous carbons for CO2 adsorption application. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. 17, 1122–1130 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-022-2292-6

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