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Environmental Science & Technology 2018
Journal of Environmental Research
Page 25
March 29-31, 2018
Vienna, Austria
4
th
Edition of International Conference on
Environmental Science
& Technology 2018
G
raphene based adsorbent has been introduced as the next
generation CO
2
adsorbent by the scholars since 2012. CO
2
adsorption capacity on these adsorbents as an indicator has
been reported to evaluate their performance in comparison
with other adsorbents in the literatures. This parameter is
easily estimated by CO
2
adsorption isotherm data. On the
other hand, these indicator doses not present the performance
of the adsorbents in their end utilization. Recently, some
scholars develop an indicator called the efficiency indicator to
evaluate the performance of the adsorbents in the idealized
pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process. This new indicator
is defined as the amount of captured CO
2
to energy needed
for compressing the gaseous mixture in the PSA process.
In this study, for the first time, the recent indicator was used
to evaluate the performance of CO
2
capture on mesoporous
graphene oxide - TiO
2
nanocomposite. This adsorbent was
synthesized and characterized by N
2
adsorption-desorption
measurements, X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning
electron microscopy and FT-IR spectroscopy. Subsequently,
the pure single-component adsorption isotherms, including
CO
2
and N
2
were measured at 298 K to assess the efficiency
indicator of CO
2
capture on mesoporous graphene oxide - TiO
2
nanocomposite for different type of thermal power plant. The
CO
2
:N
2
binary gas mixtures, including the molar ratio of 5:95,
8:92, 10:90and15:85wereconsidered tocalculate this indicator
for combined cycle power plant, natural gas-fired steam power
plant, heavy oil-fired steam power plant and coal-fired steam
power plant respectively. The efficiency indicator of CO
2
capture on mesoporous graphene oxide-TiO
2
nanocomposite
was calculated to be 2.136, 1.170, 0.875 and 0.432 tonne/
GJ for above mentioned power plants. Besides, the results
indicated that CO
2
capture on this adsorbent had the higher
efficiency in comparison with other adsorbents, including
three-dimensional graphene based porous adsorbent, holey
graphene frameworks, thermally treated graphene nanosheets
and activated carbon.
Recent Publications
1. Nazari Kudahi S, Noorpoor A R and Mahmoodi N M
(2017) Determination and analysis of CO
2
capture
kinetics and mechanisms on the novel graphene-
based adsorbents. Journal of CO
2
Utilization 21:17-29.
2. Asgari S, Noorpoor A R and Boyaghchi F A (2017)
Parametric
assessment
and
multi-objective
optimization of an internal auto-cascade refrigeration
cycle based on advanced exergy and exergoeconomic
concepts. Journal of Energy 125:576-590.
3. Noorpoor A R and Rohani S (2016) Thermo-economics
analysis and evolutionary-based optimization of a
novel multi-generation waste heat recovery in the
cement factory. Int. Journal of Exergy 21:405-434.
4. Noorpoor A R and Nazari Kudahi S (2016) Analysis
and study of CO
2
adsorption on UiO-66/graphene
oxide composite using equilibrium modelling and
ideal adsorption solution theory (IAST). Journal of
Environmental Chemical Engineering 4:1081-1091.
5. Noorpoor A R and Nazari Kudahi S (2015) CO
2
emissions from Iran’s power sector and analysis of
the influencing factors using the stochastic impacts
by regression on population, affluence and technology
(STIRPAT) model. Journal of Carbon Management
DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2015.1090317.
Biography
Alireza Noorpoor was born 1974. In 1992, He moved to Mazandaran Uni-
versity for BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics) and graduated
BSc in 1996 as top student of department. He continued in
M.Sc.from1997
to 1999. He has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Iran Univer-
sity of Science and Technology (IUST) and started to teaching at IUST. In
2010 he moved to University of Tehran. Now, he is associate Professor of
Graduate Faculty of Environment at University of Tehran. He is the head of
Air Pollution and Energy Systems Research Group (FANPAYA Co.) and Edi-
tor-in-Chief Journals: Solar Energy Research (JSER) and Environmental Sci-
ences Studies (JESS). His interest fields are: Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD), Air Pollution, Bio-gas, Carbon Capture and Energy Systems Engineer-
ing. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences.
He has held more than 10 International conferences at University of Tehran.
noorpoor@ut.ac.irEvaluation of mesoporous graphene oxide - TiO
2
nanocomposite for
CO
2
capture of thermal power plants with idealized PSA process
Ali Reza Noorpoor
1
, Saeed Nazari Kudahi
1
and
Niaz Mohammad Mahmoodi
2
1
University of Tehran, Iran
2
Institute for Color Science and Technology, Iran
Ali Reza Noorpoor et al., J Environ Res, Volume 2