A holistic platform for accelerating sorbent-based carbon capture

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Charalambous, Charithea; Moubarak, Elias; Schilling, Johannes; Fernandez, Eva Sanchez; Wang, Jin-Yu; Herraiz, Laura; Mcilwaine, Fergus; Peh, Shing Bo; Garvin, Matthew; Jablonka, Kevin Maik; Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad; Van Herck, Joren; Ozturk, Aysu Yurdusen; Pourghaderi, Alireza; Song, Ah-Young; Mouchaham, Georges; Serre, Christian; Reimer, Jeffrey A.; Bardow, Andre; Smit, Berend; Garcia, Susana
• 署名单位: Heriot Watt University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite PSL; Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI); Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS); United States Department of Energy (DOE); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-4374
• DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07683-8
• 发表日期: 2024-08-01
• 页码: 89-94
• 关键词: swing adsorption model

摘要

Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions urgently requires the large-scale deployment of carbon-capture technologies. These technologies must separate CO2 from various sources and deliver it to different sinks(1,2). The quest for optimal solutions for specific source-sink pairs is a complex, multi-objective challenge involving multiple stakeholders and depends on social, economic and regional contexts. Currently, research follows a sequential approach: chemists focus on materials design(3) and engineers on optimizing processes(4,5), which are then operated at a scale that impacts the economy and the environment. Assessing these impacts, such as the greenhouse gas emissions over the plant's lifetime, is typically one of the final steps(6). Here we introduce the PrISMa (Process-Informed design of tailor-made Sorbent Materials) platform, which integrates materials, process design, techno-economics and life-cycle assessment. We compare more than 60 case studies capturing CO2 from various sources in 5 global regions using different technologies. The platform simultaneously informs various stakeholders about the cost-effectiveness of technologies, process configurations and locations, reveals the molecular characteristics of the top-performing sorbents, and provides insights on environmental impacts, co-benefits and trade-offs. By uniting stakeholders at an early research stage, PrISMa accelerates carbon-capture technology development during this critical period as we aim for a net-zero world. A framework that integrates materials, process design, techno-economics and life-cycle assessment can be used to accelerate the development of carbon-capture technology as we aim for a net-zero world.