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    Cecilia, Juan A.; Vilarrasa-García, Enrique; Morales-Ospino, Rafael; Bastos-Neto, Moisés; Azevedo, Diana C. S.; Rodríguez-Castellón, Enrique

    Adsorption : journal of the International Adsorption Society, 02/2020, Letnik: 26, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Mesoporous silica SBA-15 solids have been synthesized at different aging temperature with the goal of obtaining materials with different textural properties. The synthesized samples have been evaluated for their CO 2 adsorption capacity. In order to increase the CO 2 adsorption capacity and the CO 2 /N 2 selectivity, the SBA-15 synthesized at different aging temperatures were functionalized via grafting with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) and via impregnation with polyethyleniminethylenediamine branched (PEI) or tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA). In all cases, the adsorption isotherms of the amine functionalized silica are fitted to the Dualsite-Langmuir model, where physical and chemical adsorption sites are reported. The isotherms reveal that grafted-silicas with APTES displayed the coexistence of both adsorption sites, while the adsorption process of PEI or TEPA impregnated-silicas are mainly governed by chemical interactions. The adsorption isotherms show that the most promising adsorbent for CO 2 capture in terms of CO 2 adsorption capacity and CO 2 /N 2 selectivity is the SBA synthesized at 393 K (aging temperature) and functionalized with TEPA (50 wt%) (SBA-393-50T). This sample reached a CO 2 adsorption capacity of 2.83 mmol g −1 at 100 kPa and 338 K. The CO 2 adsorption capacity of this material decreased around 5% after the first adsorption/desorption cycle, maintaining a constant value for successive cycles. SBA-393-50T also showed an outstanding CO 2 /N 2 selectivity, increasing significantly as the CO 2 concentration decreases.