High-efficiency CO2 capture

The establishment of low-cost and high-efficiency CO2 capture system is a crucial challenge for the lowering of CO2 emissions from various industrial sources standing on the fossil fueles. We are currently engaged in the researches to explore the new original high performance CO2 absorbents by the applications of core-shell type nanoparticels, molten ionic oxides,....etc., and design the advanced carbon capture processes based on these new absorbents.

• First-ever high temperature liquid fluidic CO2 capture using molten alkali-metal borates.
• Ultra-high capacity intermediate temperature CO2 capture by advanced core-shell MgO nanoparticles
• High efficiency direct air capture (DAC) based on new type of hierachical mesoporous solid adsorbents

Carbon-free hydrogen production

Carbon-free high-efficiency hydrogen production is a key technolgoy toward the future clean hydrogen societies.We focus on the new sorption enhanced steam methane reforming (SE-SMR) process with the advanced continuous CO2 capture system as a promising way to make the breakthrough on this challenge.

• Molten oxides based continuous SE-SMR for high efficiency carbon-free H2 production
• Nano-hybrid catalysts design for high-efficiency SE-WGS

Low-cost CO2 conversion process

The utilization of CO2 is also an important and indispensable piece to complte the cycle of carbon neutral. We explore the new advanced approaches based on the original ionic materials for high efficiency CO2 conversion to produce useful high energy chemicals.

• High-throughput computational materials screening of advanced photocatalysts for CO2 conversion
• Non-aqueous photo-electrochemically mediated CO2 conversion
• Molten salts based high temperature electrochemical CO2 conversion