SIEVES PUT A LID ON GREENHOUSE GAS

摘要

The new gas separation technology can be fitted to existing power stations and petrochemical plants to produce hydrogen, a clean energy carrier, and capture CO_2, a greenhouse gas that worsens global warming. Brisbane and German scientists have teamed up in a 4.2 million dollars project to build and test this technology. The scientists working on the technology are from the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at The University of Queensland and a German industrial research institute, Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ). Professor Max Lu, director of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, said the technology involved pumping synthesis gas from coal through a metal-supported molecular sieve in a pressurised chamber.