Calcium Carbonate Production through Direct Mineral Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Abstract:

Mineral carbon dioxide sequestration provides a leakage free and permanent method of CO₂ disposal to produce environmentally benign and stable solid carbonates. FGD gypsum as a source of calcium was proposed as the potential feedstock in this study. The purpose of this laboratory study was to investigate the effects of reaction parameters such as CO₂ pressure, reaction temperature, particle size, and ammonia solution concentration on calcium carbonate purity through Merseburg process. Increasing the reaction temperature as well as the pressure was very effective in improving the calcium carbonate purity. High purity calcium carbonate was produced when reaction temperature and CO₂ was increased to 400 °C and 70 bar, resulting in 93% and 94% purity, respectively. Experimental results showed that reducing particle size was also effective in enhancing the calcium carbonate purity in which the smallest particles produced higher purity calcium carbonates rather than larger particles. The role of ammonia solution on calcium carbonate purity was found to be beneficial in improving the calcium carbonate purity in which increasing the ammonia solution increased calcium carbonate purity significantly in all experiments.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 699)
• Pages: 1020-1025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.699.1020
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Amin Azdarpour, Radzuan Junin*, Mohammad Asadullah, Hossein Hamidi, Muhammad Manan, Ahmad Rafizan Mohamad Daud
• Keywords: Ammonia Solution, Carbon Capture, Carbon Dioxide Mineral Carbonation, FGD Gypsum, GHGs, Storage

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