Nur Syahirah Mohammed Hatta, Farihahusnah Hussin, Lai Ti Gew, Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua
{"title":"Isotherms, Thermodynamics and Regeneration Studies of CO2 Adsorption on Activated Carbon Impregnated With Waste-Sourced Natural Amino Acids","authors":"Nur Syahirah Mohammed Hatta, Farihahusnah Hussin, Lai Ti Gew, Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption isotherms, thermodynamic properties and regeneration efficiency of palm shell activated carbon (AC) impregnated with waste-sourced natural amino acids from egg white (EW), namely, ACEW-30. Initially, the performance of ACEW-30 was compared with AC impregnated with fresh EW and synthetic amino acids using fixed-bed adsorption system. The results revealed that ACEW-30 prepared from waste sources demonstrated comparable performance with other adsorbents tested, suggesting its potential for waste valorisation. Afterwards, the data were fitted to various adsorption isotherm models, namely, Langmuir, Freundlich, Sips, Toth, Dubinin–Radushkevich and Temkin, to characterise the adsorbate-adsorbent interaction between CO<sub>2</sub> molecules and ACEW-30 at different adsorption temperatures (25–50°C) and CO<sub>2</sub> partial pressures (0.15–0.30 vol.%). The isotherm results were used to evaluate thermodynamic properties using Van't Hoff and Clausius–Clapeyron equations. The effect of regeneration conditions (desorption temperatures and nitrogen purging flow rate) have also been investigated prior to cyclic adsorption–desorption experiments. Overall findings indicate that CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption on ACEW-30 was best fitted to Freundlich isotherm, spontaneous and exothermic in nature. The isosteric heat of adsorption was within 20–24 kJ/mol, suggesting that the adsorption mechanism lies within the intermediate region between purely physical and purely chemical. Remarkably, the results obtained from regeneration studies reveal that ACEW-30 exhibited high regeneration stability at 25°C and 800 mL/min purging flow rate, with more than 87% efficiency even after 20 cyclic adsorption–desorption.</p>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 4","pages":"472-486"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ghg.2354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diatomite as a Partial and Sustainable Cement Replacement: Chemical, Mechanical, and Thermal Properties","authors":"Younes El Miski, Oussama Zine, Mohamed Ameur, Yassine Kharbouch, Driss Taoukil","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2352","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated the use of Moroccan diatomite in its raw and calcined forms in mortar as a partial replacement for cement to reduce the primary energy consumption in cement production. For this purpose, a thermophysical and mechanical study was carried out. In addition, the energy consumption and global warming potential (GWP) associated with the production of these materials were assessed using a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment analysis. Several samples were prepared by replacing up to 40% of the cement with diatomite, while maintaining the same sand and water content in the mortar. The study found that diatomite reduced thermal conductivity and diffusivity owing to its high insulating potential. However, calcining diatomite up to 850°C altered the quality of the produced silica, resulting in lower values compared with raw diatomite mortars. The mortars’ compressive and flexural strengths slightly decreased when diatomite was used as a substitute, with reductions of up to 10%. Calcined diatomite mortars demonstrated a higher water absorption capacity than raw diatomite mortars. The study concluded that mortars in which 40% of the cement has been partially replaced by either raw diatomite or calcined diatomite offer the most satisfactory thermal performance, while retaining sufficient mechanical strength to enable them to be classified as construction mortars. Calcined diatomite mortars offer favorable performance compared to raw diatomite, suggesting the potential of calcined diatomite to reduce the environmental impact and improve mortar quality, opening prospects for environment-friendly mortars and cost optimization.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 3","pages":"394-408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144315263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Hui Law, Aisyah Ilyani Ismail, Graham Leverick, Elizabeth M. Bernhardt, Azlan Mohd. Kassim, Farihahusnah Hussin, Betar M. Gallant, Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua
Shayan Faghihi, Jamshid Moghadasi, Mohammad Jamialahmadi
{"title":"Continuous CO2 Injection for Simultaneous Geological Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery: Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Permeability Heterogeneity","authors":"Shayan Faghihi, Jamshid Moghadasi, Mohammad Jamialahmadi","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2350","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated the effects of absolute permeability on the performance of continuous CO<sub>2</sub> injection for a CO<sub>2</sub>-enhanced oil recovery and storage process (CO<sub>2</sub>-EOR and Storage) in a water-invaded zone. First, the CO<sub>2</sub> solubility in dead-oil and brine samples and the oil swelling factor were measured using a visual high-pressure–high-temperature cell. Following this, several continuous immiscible CO<sub>2</sub> injection core flooding tests at a constant rate of 0.5 cm<sup>3</sup>/min and in situ reservoir conditions were conducted. The core samples were taken from a carbonate depleted oil reservoir located in southern Iran. The results revealed that more than 30% of the injected CO<sub>2</sub> was trapped primarily by residual-phase and solubility-trapping mechanisms. In addition, it was found that the core samples with lower absolute permeability provided higher storage efficiency. In contrast, the ones with the highest absolute permeability showed the least potential for CO<sub>2</sub> storage. From the EOR point of view, on average, 18% of the residual oil was produced mechanistically through swelling as well as physical displacement. Although the results showed a declining trend in the amount of oil produced with increased absolute permeability, no clear relationship could be established.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 4","pages":"458-471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fahd Mohamad Alqahtani, Menad Nait Amar, Hakim Djema, Khaled Ourabah, Amer Alanazi, Mohammad Ghasemi
{"title":"Machine Learning–Based Estimation of Hydrogen Solubility in Brine for Underground Storage in Saline Aquifers","authors":"Fahd Mohamad Alqahtani, Menad Nait Amar, Hakim Djema, Khaled Ourabah, Amer Alanazi, Mohammad Ghasemi","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2353","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Saline aquifers are considered among the most attractive porous media systems for underground hydrogen storage (UHS) because of their wide availability and the considerable capacity of storage. The successful implementation of UHS in saline aquifers depends on many vital factors and parameters. Among these factors, the solubility of hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) in brine remains a relevant consideration, particularly due to its influence on potential bio-geochemical reactions that may occur within underground formations. Given the significant expense and time demands associated with experimental methods for determining hydrogen solubility in brine, there is a growing need for a reliable and low-cost alternative capable of delivering accurate predictions. In this research, a suite of robust machine learning (ML) schemes, including multilayer perceptron (MLP), genetic programming (GP), and the group method of data handling (GMDH), is employed to construct predictive models for hydrogen solubility in brine, specifically under challenging high-pressure and high-temperature scenarios. The obtained results demonstrated the promising performance of the newly suggested ML-based paradigms. MLP optimized with Levenberg–Marquardt (MLP-LMA) yielded the best statistical metrics, including an <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> of 0.9991 and an average absolute relative error (AARE) of 0.9417%. The findings of this study are important because they demonstrate that ML-based approaches embodied in intelligent paradigms are accurate and efficient and therefore have potential for use in reservoir simulators to assess dissolution processes associated with UHS in porous media.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 3","pages":"409-420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144315403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziyong Li, Qingdan Huang, Tingyan Wang, Huihong Huang, Haoyong Song
{"title":"Influences of Diamine Molecular Structures on the Phase-Change CO2 Capture From Flue Gas","authors":"Ziyong Li, Qingdan Huang, Tingyan Wang, Huihong Huang, Haoyong Song","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2347","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The amino groups and its substituents of organic amine absorbents have an important influence on the CO<sub>2</sub> absorption and desorption performance. In this study, four diamines with the same primary amino group and another different amino groups were selected as absorbents, including 1,3-propanediamine (1,3-PDA), 3-methylaminopropylamine (MAPA), 3-dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA), and 3-diethylaminopropylamine (DEAPA). The phase-change absorption system uses a mixture of polyether and H<sub>2</sub>O as the solvent. The CO<sub>2</sub> absorption performance of flue gas was studied with the analysis on absorption and desorption rate, cycle capacity, and desorption ratio. The effect of diamine molecular structures on phase-change CO<sub>2</sub> capture was investigated by nuclear magnetic carbon spectroscopy. The results show that DEAPA exhibits highest absorption capacity of 1.21 mol CO<sub>2</sub>/mol amine and recycling capacity of 1.09 mol CO<sub>2</sub>/mol amine. The absorption rate of primary and secondary diamines in the phase-change system is significantly higher than that of primary and tertiary diamines. The diamine system with tertiary amino groups has significantly faster desorption rate, higher desorption ratio, and cycle capacity than the primary and secondary diamine systems. The intramolecular tertiary amino group is more conducive to promoting the absorption of CO<sub>2</sub> than the intermolecular tertiary amino group, which can increase the absorption rate of CO<sub>2</sub> by the primary amino group and enhance the CO<sub>2</sub> desorption.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 3","pages":"346-356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144315271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geochemical Assessment for Carbon Sequestration in the Conasauga Group, Northwest Georgia, USA","authors":"Nora V. Lopez Rivera, Lauren E. Beckingham","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2344","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Sedimentary geological formations are known to be great candidates for geological carbon sequestration. Published studies suggest the southeast of the United States contains many formations suitable for carbon storage. The Cassville 1 Stratigraphic Borehole well could act as a potential carbon reservoir for nearby energy resource facilities in Georgia, United States. Although studies have shown that porous formations are adequate for geological carbon sequestration, it is important to understand possible geochemical reactions between CO<sub>2</sub> and the targeted geological formation before injecting any fluids. In this study, a sandstone sample from the Cassville 1 well is being considered for geological carbon sequestration in the Conasauga Group in Northwest Georgia. The collected sandstone sample, consisting of quartz, K-feldspar, micas, kaolinite, and carbonate minerals such as calcite and dolomite, has a 6% porosity. Leveraging the formation composition and porosity, a one-dimensional continuum reactive transport model was built using CrunchFlow to assess possible geochemical reactions between injected CO<sub>2</sub> and the geological formation. Simulation results show that the carbonate minerals, calcite and dolomite, dissolve during the injection period of 10,000 days, increasing formation porosity from 6% to as much as 30%. The rate and extent of carbonate mineral dissolution and resulting porosity increase are highly sensitive to mineral reactive surface area values. No evidence of mineral precipitation was observed, suggesting that dissolution reactions will control porosity evolution during the CO<sub>2</sub> injection period.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 4","pages":"423-431"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maziyar Nazemi, Shahin E. Dashtgard, Francyne Bochi do Amarante, Hassan Hassanzadeh, Andrew D. La Croix
{"title":"Geological Screening for CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers in the Lower Mainland British Columbia (LMBC), Canada","authors":"Maziyar Nazemi, Shahin E. Dashtgard, Francyne Bochi do Amarante, Hassan Hassanzadeh, Andrew D. La Croix","doi":"10.1002/ghg.2345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.2345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deep saline aquifers and depleted reservoirs are prime candidates for CO<sub>2</sub> storage, but feasibility assessments remain limited in regions with little oil and gas activity, such as the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (LMBC), Canada. This study evaluates the CO<sub>2</sub> storage potential of the Georgia Basin strata beneath the LMBC, focusing on three intervals (Nanaimo Group, Huntingdon Formation, and Boundary Bay Formation) in Western, Central, and Eastern LMBC. Eastern LMBC holds limited potential for CO<sub>2</sub> storage due to both the shallow depth of strata in that region and the high geological uncertainty resulting from limited subsurface data. The Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group across the entire LMBC is unsuitable for CO<sub>2</sub> injection because it has very poor reservoir quality (generally <1 mD permeability and <8% porosity). In contrast, the Paleogene Huntingdon Formation in Western and Central LMBC contains thick successions of reservoir-quality rock (average thickness: 110 m, porosity: 15%), though its low permeability (≥10 mD) may restrict injection rates. Its estimated CO<sub>2</sub> storage capacity is ∼400 Mt, making it a secondary target. The Neogene Boundary Bay Formation, also in Western and Central LMBC, offers the most favorable conditions, with higher permeability (13–67 mD), porosity (18%–21%), and thick reservoir intervals (up to 155 m). It has an estimated CO<sub>2</sub> storage capacity of ∼430 Mt. With low fault density and minimal wellbore leakage risks, the Boundary Bay Formation and then the Huntingdon Formation below Western and Central LMBC are recommended as the primary targets for CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":12796,"journal":{"name":"Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology","volume":"15 4","pages":"432-448"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ghg.2345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}