Surface Condensation of CO                         2                          onto Kaolinite

H. T. Schaef; V. A. Glezakou; A. T. Owen; S. Ramprasad; P. F. Martin; B. P. McGrail

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Surface Condensation of CO ₂ onto Kaolinite

H. T. Schaef, V. A. Glezakou, A. T. Owen, S. Ramprasad, P. F. Martin, B. P. McGrail

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The fundamental adsorption of CO ₂ onto poorly crystalline kaolinite (KGa-2) under conditions relevant to geologic sequestration has been investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. The QCM data indicated linear adsorption of CO ₂ (0-0.3 mmol of CO ₂ /g of KGa-2) onto the kaolinite surface up through the gaseous state (0.186 g/cm ³ ). However, in the supercritical region, the extent of CO ₂ adsorption increases dramatically, reaching a peak (0.9-1.2 mmol of CO ₂ /g of KGa-2) near 0.40 g/cm ³ , before declining rapidly. DFT studies of interactions of CO ₂ with kaolinite surface models confirm that surface adsorption is favored up to ∼0.34 g/cm ³ of CO ₂ , showing distorted T-shaped CO ₂ -CO ₂ clustering, typical of supercritical CO ₂ aggregation over the surface at higher densities. Beyond this point, the adsorption energy gain for any additional CO ₂ becomes smaller than the CO ₂ interaction energy (∼0.2 eV) in the supercritical medium, resulting in the desorption of CO ₂ from the kaolinite surface.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	142-145
Number of pages	4
Journal	Environmental Science and Technology Letters
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ez400169b
State	Published - Feb 11 2014
Externally published	Yes

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