Among them will be a paper outlining the progress made on efforts to modify the material to capture highly-corrosive sulfur dioxide, otherwise known as a sour gas. Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a low-cost filtering material to separate and capture CO2, from gas streams at natural gas gathering facilities. Cheaper and easier to make than other forms of activated carbon, the porous carbon material used for filtration will be commercially viable to produce at scale, says Saunab Ghosh, a research scientist at Rice. She adds that the material is also highly recyclable and can be used more than 200 or 300 times. The researchers found that they could remove up to 80 percent of CO2 produced by natural gas plants using this method.
Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a low-cost filtering material to separate and capture CO2, from gas streams at natural gas gathering facilities. Cheaper and easier to make than other forms of activated carbon, the porous carbon material used for filtration will be commercially viable to produce at scale, says Saunab Ghosh, a research scientist at Rice. She adds that the material is also highly recyclable and can be used more than 200 or 300 times. The researchers found that they could remove up to 80 percent of CO2 produced by natural gas plants using this method.