“…A variety of microporous materials such as activated carbon (AC), zeolites, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been studied and developed for physical adsorption of gas mixtures containing CO 2 (Dantas et al 2011a;Belmabkhout and Sayari, 2009;Bae et al, 2008). Activated carbons have been tested for applications in CO 2 separation from binary mixtures CO 2 -CH 4 (Buss, 1995;Ahmadpour et al, 1998;Dreisbach et al, 1999;Qiao et al, 2000;van der Vaart et al, 2000;Goetz et al, 2006;Bazan et al, 2008) due to their high surface area, micropore volume and suitable pore size distribution (Dantas et al, 2011b).…”