“…The technology for CO 2 separation is well established because CO 2 has a great number of industrial applications including in dry ice production, automatic welding, carbonation of beverages, plant cultivation, chemicals manufacture (e.g., urea, MgCO 3 , BaCO 3 , SrCO 3 ), and enhanced oil recovery. Separation technologies include adsorption (Karger et al, 1973;King, 1980), membrane separation (Stern, 1994;Baker, 2002;Wind et al, 2003), extraction and absorption (Danckwerts, 1979;Versteeg and Swaaij, 1988;Vá zquez et al, 1997), recrystallization (Berends et al, 1996;Yoo et al, 1999) and ion shift (Kusakabe et al, 1998;Shiflett and Yokozeki, 2005). Among these, adsorption, membrane separation, and extraction and absorption are thought to have potential industrial applications, but each process has advantages and disadvantages in terms of thermodynamics, chemical paths and economic viability.…”