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- Biochar in carbon sequestrationPublication . Shirzad, Mohammad; Karimi, Mohsen; Rodrigues, Alírio; Silva, José A.C.The increase of carbon dioxide emissions and the global warming consequences is today a considerable environmental concern. On the contrary, the rapid growth in the energy consumption throughout the world has exacerbated the CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Accordingly, carbon capture sequestration and utilization have been considered as a potential emission mitigation strategy. In this way, several strategies and technologies including: absorption, membranes, adsorption etc. have been proposed, which adsorption technology using solid sorbents due to the lower environmental side-effects also lower energy consumption is one of the most favorable strategies. However, despite the significant efforts made for developing novel solid adsorbents for CO2 mitigation, still the elements of cost and synthesis have remained as main challenges. To this end, biochar carbon materials have been employed as a source of adsorbent through CO2 capture and sequestration process not only to satisfy these factors but also as a pathway to the solid waste management. Herein, the key concepts on the carbon capture and sequestration also adsorption processes have been discussed. Next, the capability of biomass/biochar as a low-cost origin of potential adsorbent is extensively discussed.
- Biomass/biochar carbon materials for CO2 capture and sequestration by cyclic adsorption processes: a review and prospects for future directionsPublication . Karimi, Mohsen; Shirzad, Mohammad; Silva, José A.C.; Rodrigues, AlírioThe persistent enhancement of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere originated from anthropogenic activities, especially CO2, resulted in several serious global challenges. In this way, employing biomass, biochar, etc., as a low-cost precursor for CO2 adsorbent is promising not only in the view of hydrophobic character and abundant resources, but also is an illustrious strategy for solid wastes management as a consequence of the exponential population expansion. Herein, key concepts on adsorption technology, waste management, and different activation techniques on raw carbons materials have firstly been discussed. Afterwards, almost all accomplished studies on cyclic adsorption processes e.g. PSA, TSA, VSA, etc., which employed biomass/biochar as a source of adsorbents have been extensively reviewed, that gives a precise knowledge for large scale application of these materials. Furthermore, in the last part of this work, biomass/biochar adsorbent based samples, which have already been studied for CO2 capture, but till now, they have not been evaluated at the bench/pilot scale by cyclic adsorption process, are introduced for future directions. Also for the reader’s of this work, key concepts of each section have been summarized in the form of simple figures and tables that will help to identify clearly the prominent accomplished works till now.
- Carbon dioxide separation and capture by adsorption: a reviewPublication . Karimi, Mohsen; Shirzad, Mohammad; Silva, José A.C.; Rodrigues, AlírioRising adverse impact of climate change caused by anthropogenic activities is calling for advanced methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Here, we review adsorption technologies for carbon dioxide capture with focus on materials, techniques, and processes, additive manufacturing, direct air capture, machine learning, life cycle assessment, commercialization and scale-up.
- Moving bed reactors: challenges and progress of experimental and theoretical studies in a century of researchPublication . Shirzad, Mohammad; Karimi, Mohsen; Silva, José A.C.; Rodrigues, AlírioMoving bed reactors (MBRs) have been proposed as a sign of significant progress in the reaction engineering area for performance improving and energy saving. Since their advent in 1890, the MBRs have attracted a wide acceptance in different industries, while they were first developed for the drying industries. The progress that this technology has made during its evolution led to the introduction of these reactors as a pioneer strategy in other industries including petroleum, petrochemical, pyrolysis, and biomass industries. In the traditional reaction systems, the process performance decreases during the operational conditions, while MBRs have obviated this drawback by having an all-around permanent acceptable efficiency. In this context, the present work provides an overview on the evolution of MBRs by investigating the main experimental and theoretical studies. In this way, the experimental studies have typically taken into account operational conditions and production rates of different products, while in the theoretical research, modeling, and simulation of conventional processes, the evaluation of novel configurations and the optimization techniques have been investigated. In the end, some suggestions are proposed to modify the traditional MBRs as helpful ideas for further studies.
- Statistical analysis and optimal design of polymer inclusion membrane for water treatment by Co(II) removalPublication . Karimi, Mohsen; Shirzad, MohammadRecently, there is a huge volume of polluted wastewater released from the industries, which adversely affects the environment and human health. As a result, finding a simple, inexpensive, and efficient strategy for water purification is one of the major concerns of researchers. In this study, based on the scope of heavy metals removal from the polluted water, the polymer inclusion membrane has been employed for Co(II) removal. In this way, the main separation parameters in the membrane structure and aqueous phases including carrier percentage, percentage of plasticizer, pH of source phase, and receiving phase acid concentration have been considered at the room temperature and atmospheric pressure, simultaneously, by applying the response surface methodology. The range of considered parameters varied between 5 and 35%wt (total weight of the reference membrane), 40–70%wt (total weight of the reference membrane), 2.5–6.5, and 0.5–2.5 mol L–1 for the carrier percentage, percentage of plasticizer, pH of the source phase, and receiving phase acid concentration, respectively. The statistical analysis of experimental tests showed an admissible agreement between these values and model outputs by developing acceptable results for Adj-R2 (0.9978) and p-value (p 0.0001). Also, the ion removal has been optimized by maximizing the removal factor at a constant time of 24 h (%RFmax = 73.25%) to achieve the optimum quantities of considered parameters. A test in the optimal operational conditions with the removal factor of 73.99% verified the reliability and accuracy of the proposed model. Finally, the interaction coefficients between the considered variables are completely analyzed to have a better grasp about the polymer inclusion membranes.