“…Amines have moderate working capacities for CO 2 and sufficiently low vapor pressure to enable practical designs but are imperfect from an environmental and health perspective , and are susceptible to thermal, , oxidative, and contaminants-based , degradation. Amines react with SO x and NO x to form stable salts in the liquid phase, − some of which may be hazardous. , Reclamation technologies ,, are well developed to recover the contaminated amines, but for CO 2 capture to be cost effective, the contaminants should be removed in an upstream acid gas treatment , or in a sacrificial section of the absorber . The primary issue that has held back the larger-scale deployment of amines, however, and by extension carbon capture technologies more generally, is the high energy demand associated with regenerating the amine and releasing high purity CO 2 in the desorber. ,, Demixing sorbents phase separate into CO 2 -rich and CO 2 -lean phases, and by passing only the CO 2 -rich phase to the desorber, a more efficient process may be possible.…”