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In the transition to a clean-energy future, CO separations will play a critical role in mitigating current greenhouse gas emissions and facilitating conversion to cleaner-burning and renewable fuels. New materials with high selectivities for CO adsorption, large CO removal capacities, and low regeneration energies are needed to achieve these separations efficiently at scale. Here, we present a detailed investigation of nine diamine-appended variants of the metal-organic framework Mg(dobpdc) (dobpdc = 4,4'-dioxidobiphenyl-3,3'-dicarboxylate) that feature step-shaped CO adsorption isotherms resulting from cooperative and reversible insertion of CO into metal-amine bonds to form ammonium carbamate chains. Small modifications to the diamine structure are found to shift the threshold pressure for cooperative CO adsorption by over 4 orders of magnitude at a given temperature, and the observed trends are rationalized on the basis of crystal structures of the isostructural zinc frameworks obtained from in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments. The structure-activity relationships derived from these results can be leveraged to tailor adsorbents to the conditions of a given CO separation process. The unparalleled versatility of these materials, coupled with their high CO capacities and low projected energy costs, highlights their potential as next-generation adsorbents for a wide array of CO separations.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) undertook a multiyear effort to understand the landscape of postcombustion CO₂ capture technologies globally. In this paper we discuss several central issues facing CO₂ capture involving scale, energy, and overall status of development. We argue that the scale of CO₂ emissions is sufficiently large to place inherent limits on the types of capture processes that could be deployed broadly. We also discuss the minimum energy usage in terms of a parasitic load on a power plant. Finally, we present summary findings of the landscape of capture technologies using an index of technology readiness levels.

We screen a wide selection of nano-porous materials with respect to CO2 capture from flue gas by employing the metric of parasitic energy designed to comprise the entire CCS process.

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