Xiao, G., Xie, Q., He, Y., Huang, X., Richardson, J. J., Dai, M., Hua, J., Li, X., Guo, J., Liao, X., & Shi, B. (2023). Synergistic Adsorption and In Situ Catalytic Conversion of SO2 by Transformed Bimetal-Phenolic Functionalized Biomass. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(34), 12911–12921. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c03827
Abstract:
SO2 removal is critical to flue gas purification. However, based on performance and cost, materials under development are hardly adequate substitutes for active carbon-based materials. Here, we engineered biomass-derived nanostructured carbon nanofibers integrated with highly dispersed bimetallic Ti/CoOx nanoparticles through the thermal transition of metal-phenolic functionalized industrial leather wastes for synergistic SO2 adsorption and in situ catalytic conversion. The generation of surface-SO32– and peroxide species (O22–) by Ti/CoOx achieved catalytic conversion of adsorbed SO2 into value-added liquid H2SO4, which can be discharged from porous nanofibers. This approach can also avoid the accumulation of the adsorbed SO2, thereby achieving high desulfurization activity and a long operating life over 6000 min, preceding current state-of-the-art active carbon-based desulfurization materials. Combined with the techno-economic and carbon footprint analysis from 36 areas in China, we demonstrated an economically viable and scalable solution for real-world SO2 removal on the industrial scale.
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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2022YFA0912800), National Excellent Young Scientists Fund (00308054A1045), Double First Class University Plan of Sichuan University, National Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2017ZX07402004), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21506036, 22178233), Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China (Grant No. 2022J01564, No. 2017J01412), Special Supported Project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
(Grant No. 2020T130599), Key Project of Fuzhou University’s Open Testing Fund for Expensive Instruments and Equipment (Grant No. 2023T004), China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201606655030), Talents Program of Sichuan Province, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (sklpme 2020-03-01), and Sichuan Tianfu Emei Project (2022-EC02-00073-CG)