“…Another approach to yield different morphologies of the sorbent particles is to use different precursors and precursor treatments. Early on, the CO 2 uptake of CaO derived from different calcium-based precursors, including calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH) 2 ), calcium propanoate (Ca(C 2 H 5 COO) 2 ), calcium acetylacetonate hydrate (Ca(C 5 H 7 O 2 ) 2 ), calcium acetate (Ca(CH 3 COO) 2 ), calcium d -gluconate monohydrate (Ca(C 6 H 11 O 7 ) 2 ·H 2 O), calcium L-lactate hydrate (Ca(C 2 H 5 O 3 ) 2 ·H 2 O), calcium citrate tetrahydrate (Ca 3 (C 6 H 5 O 7 ) 2 ·4H 2 O), calcium nitrate tetrahydrate (Ca(NO 3 ) 2 ·4H 2 O), calcium formate (Ca(HCOO) 2 ), calcium oxalate (CaC 2 O 4 ), and calcium 2-ethylhexanoate, has been compared. ,,− Depending on the type of precursor used, the transition to CaO occurs in several steps; the transition route affects the morphology of the sorbent (including surface area and pore volume distribution) and the crystallite size of the CaO, which all influence the CO 2 uptake performance of the resulting CaO. The combination of different precursors and pretreatment conditions (i.e., temperature, heating rate, p CO 2 , and p H 2 O ) provide rich opportunities to tune the physical properties of the CaO.…”