TY - JOUR
T1 - Activated carbon nanofibers incorporated metal oxides for CO2adsorption
T2 - Effects of different type of metal oxides
AU - Othman, Faten Ermala Che
AU - Yusof, Norhaniza
AU - Samitsu, Sadaki
AU - Abdullah, Norfadhilatuladha
AU - Hamid, Muhammad Faris
AU - Nagai, Kazukiyo
AU - Abidin, Muhammad Nizam Zainal
AU - Azali, Mohd Ariff
AU - Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi
AU - Jaafar, Juhana
AU - Aziz, Farhana
AU - Salleh, Wan Norharyati Wan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Malaysian Ministry Education and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under UTM Prototype Research grant (UTMPR) ( Q.J130000.2851.00L41 ), Collaborative Research Grant (CRG) ( Q.J130000.2451.087G72 ) and ( Q.J130000.2451.08G26 ), UTM-TDR grant scheme ( Q.J130000.3551.06G07 ) and HICOE research grant ( R.J090301.7851.4J428 ). The authors would also like to acknowledge the technical and management support from Research Management Centre , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (RMC, UTM). One of the authors, Othman, F.E.C. would like to acknowledge the Zamalah Scholarship received from UTM, NIMS Internship Scholarship 2018 awarded by National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan and Mitacs-Globalink Research Award 2020 awarded by Mitacs and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. This work was supported by NIMS Electron Microscopy Analysis Station , Nanostructural Characterization Group . Special thanks to Ms. Ichie Koda for the assistance on TEM measurement
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Activated carbon nanofibers (ACNFs) incorporated with four different types of metal oxides; magnesium oxide (MgO), manganese dioxide (MnO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), and calcium oxide (CaO) were successfully prepared via a simple electrospinning and pyrolysis process. Optimum electrospinning and pyrolysis parameters were performed to obtain porous ACNFs composites for CO2 capture. The porous and textural characteristics of the resultant ACNFs composites were performed using N2 adsorption isotherms at 77 K, while the features and morphologies were observed using TEM and FE-SEM. The EDX and Raman analysis were used to determine and analyse the elemental composition in the ACNFs. It was observed that ACNFs incorporated MgO (ACNF2) exhibited the largest surface area (413 m2/g) and the highest micropore volume (0.1777 cm3/g) as compared to pristine ACNF (ACNF1) and other ACNFs composites. ACNF2 also possessed the smallest fiber diameter of 357.8 ± 16.7 nm as compared to other samples. The successful incorporation of all metal oxides in electrospun fibers were proven by EDX analysis. All resultant ACNFs exhibited D- and G-peaks in Raman spectra indicating the carbon-based materials structure. As expected, the ACNF2 attained the highest CO2 adsorption of 60 cm3/g at 298 K as compared to other ACNFs samples which is correspond to N2 adsorption capacity. The CO2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of the best composite sample (ACNF2) was measured at three different temperatures (273, 298, and 318 K) at 1 bar through a volumetric adsorption process and this result was compared to ACNF1. It shown that the CO2 adsorption capacity is inversely proportional to the increasing temperature in which as the adsorption temperature increased, the adsorbed amounts of CO2 decreased. These results indicated that the incorporation of MgO into ACNFs shows the best improvement in their physicochemical properties for enhanced adsorption performance of CO2 under practical conditions.
AB - Activated carbon nanofibers (ACNFs) incorporated with four different types of metal oxides; magnesium oxide (MgO), manganese dioxide (MnO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), and calcium oxide (CaO) were successfully prepared via a simple electrospinning and pyrolysis process. Optimum electrospinning and pyrolysis parameters were performed to obtain porous ACNFs composites for CO2 capture. The porous and textural characteristics of the resultant ACNFs composites were performed using N2 adsorption isotherms at 77 K, while the features and morphologies were observed using TEM and FE-SEM. The EDX and Raman analysis were used to determine and analyse the elemental composition in the ACNFs. It was observed that ACNFs incorporated MgO (ACNF2) exhibited the largest surface area (413 m2/g) and the highest micropore volume (0.1777 cm3/g) as compared to pristine ACNF (ACNF1) and other ACNFs composites. ACNF2 also possessed the smallest fiber diameter of 357.8 ± 16.7 nm as compared to other samples. The successful incorporation of all metal oxides in electrospun fibers were proven by EDX analysis. All resultant ACNFs exhibited D- and G-peaks in Raman spectra indicating the carbon-based materials structure. As expected, the ACNF2 attained the highest CO2 adsorption of 60 cm3/g at 298 K as compared to other ACNFs samples which is correspond to N2 adsorption capacity. The CO2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of the best composite sample (ACNF2) was measured at three different temperatures (273, 298, and 318 K) at 1 bar through a volumetric adsorption process and this result was compared to ACNF1. It shown that the CO2 adsorption capacity is inversely proportional to the increasing temperature in which as the adsorption temperature increased, the adsorbed amounts of CO2 decreased. These results indicated that the incorporation of MgO into ACNFs shows the best improvement in their physicochemical properties for enhanced adsorption performance of CO2 under practical conditions.
KW - Activated carbon nanofibers
KW - COadsorption
KW - Composite adsorbent
KW - Metal oxide
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101434
DO - 10.1016/j.jcou.2021.101434
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099731007
VL - 45
JO - Journal of CO2 Utilization
JF - Journal of CO2 Utilization
SN - 2212-9820
M1 - 101434
ER -