Abstract:
With the global advancement toward carbon neutrality, the development of high-efficiency, low-energy CO
2 capture technologies has become a research priority. Although molten salt-modified MgO exhibits excellent CO
2 adsorption performance under pure CO
2 conditions as a representative intermediate-temperature adsorbent, its severe performance degradation under low CO
2 concentrations significantly limits its practical application. To address this critical challenge, this study proposes a K
2CO
3-enhanced strategy and optimizes the synthesis of a 40mol% K
2CO
3-10%(Li
0.3Na
0.6K
0.1)NO
3-MgO composite adsorbent. The results demonstrate that the optimized material achieves a CO
2 uptake of 1.38 mmol/g under 20% CO
2 at 300℃, representing a 13-fold improvement over the unmodified system. Through multi-scale characterization techniques, the influence of K
2CO
3 doping on MgO and the underlying CO
2 adsorption mechanism were systematically investigated. The developed adsorbent exhibits excellent cycling stability, maintaining a capacity of 1.30 mmol/g after 20 adsorption-desorption cycles, demonstrating promising potential for industrial applications. This study not only develops a highly active intermediate-temperature CO
2 adsorbent but also provides new insights for designing efficient low-concentration CO
2 capture materials.