Guangping Hao
Guangping Hao is a professor and dean of the Chemical Technology Department in the School of Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology (DUT). Before joining DUT, he worked in TU Dresden as Humboldt research fellow and the University of Manchester as Marie-Curie research fellow, after receiving his PhD from DUT. His research interests include novel porous materials, adsorptive separation and purification, electrocatalytic synthesis, etc. He has led more than 10 national/ministerial research projects, and 70 peer-reviewed papers have been published in journals such as Nature Nanotech., Angew. Chem. etc, with a citation exceeding 6000. He serves as youth editorial board member/guest editor: Inorganic Chemicals Industry, Chinese Chemical Letters, New Carbon Materials etc. He is the recipient of a couple of awards such as CIESC fundamental research award (1st prize), Liaoning Revitalization Talents Award, Liaoning Province Natural Science Award (1st prize), Emerging Academic Researcher Award for Doctoral Candidates etc.
Presentation title: Nanoporous carbon materials for adsorptive CO2 capture
Abstract: Decarbonization is the process of reducing or eliminating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from various sources, which is of importance for a sustainable future. Adsorptive separation is one of the attractive technologies, which shows easy regeneration and high cycle stability, and thus reduced energy penalties and cost.[1,2] In this talk, the recent progress regarding the innovation of porous carbon adsorbents to the case study for CO2 separation practices will be included. In the adsorbent aspects, the key intrinsic properties such as pore structure, surface chemistry, preferable adsorption sites, and other structural features that would affect CO2 capture capacity, selectivity, and recyclability will be first discussed. Then, their performances from case to case will be studied and compared, including uptake and selectivity under dry and humid CO2 streams with different concentrations. Finally, a brief outlook on remaining challenges and potential directions for future low-concentration CO2 removal will be given. We hope that this report could inspire interdisciplinary activities between the design and modification of adsorbents and the practical CO2 separation or removal technologies.