More Porous Carbon Captures More CO2

Jan-03-19 An innovative powder able to capture CO2 molecules at the source could double the efficiency of current filtration methods.

Developed by a team from the University of Waterloo, the powder relies on carbon’s abilities to attract CO2 molecules that come in contact with it. They created the new material by extracting black carbon power from plants using heat and salt, resulting in carbon spheres with “many, many” new pores, most of them with a diameter of less than one-millionth of a meter in diameter. The smaller, more numerous pores drastically increase the efficiency of the material, which could be put to work in fossil fuel power plants and then buried underground to prevent the CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

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