Principal Investigator:
Wanda Andreoni
, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
HPC Platform used:
JUQUEEN of JSC
Local Project ID:
PRA069
The disastrous impact of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on the environment is very well known. The most mature technology for post-combustion CO2 capture, currently in use in the chemical industry, exploits a cyclic process, in which CO2 is selectively and reversibly absorbed in an amine (aqueous) solution. However, the operating costs are still too high to allow for large-scale implementation. A large empirical effort is ongoing worldwide primarily to reduce the high energy penalty required for amine regeneration and to increase the rate of CO2 absorption into the solvent.
