Carbon capture research lab at Queen's University Belfast

The goal of the project is to develop efficient and economic gas purification technologies, as alternatives to the highly energy and chemical intensive multi-step operations currently in place that have a considerable contribution to GHG emissions.

The research focuses on strategies for biogas purification issues in a comprehensive way with a variety of absorbents such as liquids, polymers and hybrid materials. The objective is to design, produce, and evaluate these new materials to selectively scrub impurities, based for example in ionic liquids (ILs), deep eutectic solvents (DES), molten salts (MS), molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), cyclodextrins (CD) and other porogen materials.

Gas purification ability and efficiency of new materials will be screened via a new experimental screening method developed by our group and precise gas-liquid equilibria measurements will be performed with in-house designed equipment.

Contact: Dr Leila Moura, L.Moura@qub.ac.uk