Carbon emission is a very serious environmental problem. International contracts aim to reduce the release of this gas into the atmosphere. The more carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, the faster the global warming. Researchers have developed a new membrane to stop carbon emissions. Thanks to this material, carbon dioxide is captured just before it enters the atmosphere and is separated from other gases. Capturing carbon dioxide without spreading According to the statement published by the team, the technique they use is a technique that has never been tried before. In this technique, the gas separation membrane is fed with a small amount of precious metal. This ensures that carbon dioxide can be collected on small silver crystals or dendrites. These dendrites dramatically increase the effectiveness of the structure. This paves the way for large amounts of carbon dioxide and oxygen to be captured using less valuable metal than previous methods. Greg Mutch, a carbon capture engineer from Newcastle University, explained that they didn’t make the entire membrane in silver. Instead, they added that they added a small amount of silver and made it grow within the membrane, and also provided the functions they wanted. This work also goes into carbon capture and storage. Advances in this area actually date back decades. Since then, different membranes have been produced with different materials. Costs were intimidating Cost is the main obstacle to the spread of carbon capture and storage techniques. This is the biggest obstacle to the realization of the work carried out in laboratories. Because many bright ideas are stuck at this point. Although there are many different methods for capturing carbon, they all focus on the selective permeable structure called membrane in one way or another. These researchers also added traces of silver to aluminum oxide pellets. Of course, these materials are not cheap, but with the new method, it is possible to use smaller amounts of material. As a result of the studies, the researchers managed to create a network of silver dendrites and capture carbon dioxide with this network. Thus, a cost-effective structure that can be used very effectively has been built. According to the team, this method will also significantly reduce operating costs required for the operation of the necessary equipment and equipment.
