Electrochemical CO2 mineralization for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2022.02.002

中国化学工程学报 ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3): 14-23.DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2022.02.002

Electrochemical CO₂ mineralization for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis

Heping Xie^1,2, Yunpeng Wang¹, Tao Liu³, Yifan Wu³, Wenchuan Jiang³, Cheng Lan³, Zhiyu Zhao³, Liangyu Zhu⁴, Dongsheng Yang³

1. School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;
2. Institute of Deep Earth Science and Green Energy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China;
3. Institute of New Energy and Low-Carbon Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;
4. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

收稿日期:2021-08-30 修回日期:2022-02-03 出版日期:2022-03-28 发布日期:2022-04-28
通讯作者: Heping Xie,E-mail:Xiehp@scu.edu.cn
基金资助:
This work was funded by the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (2020YFH0012). We also thank the Analysis and Testing Center of Sichuan University and Ceshigo Research for help in characterizations.

Electrochemical CO₂ mineralization for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis

Heping Xie^1,2, Yunpeng Wang¹, Tao Liu³, Yifan Wu³, Wenchuan Jiang³, Cheng Lan³, Zhiyu Zhao³, Liangyu Zhu⁴, Dongsheng Yang³

1. School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;
2. Institute of Deep Earth Science and Green Energy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China;
3. Institute of New Energy and Low-Carbon Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;
4. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

Received:2021-08-30 Revised:2022-02-03 Online:2022-03-28 Published:2022-04-28
Contact: Heping Xie,E-mail:Xiehp@scu.edu.cn
Supported by:
This work was funded by the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (2020YFH0012). We also thank the Analysis and Testing Center of Sichuan University and Ceshigo Research for help in characterizations.

摘要/Abstract

摘要： CO₂ mineralization as a promising CO₂ mitigation strategy can employ industrial alkaline solid wastes to achieve net emission reduction of atmospheric CO₂. The red mud is a strong alkalinity waste residue produced from the aluminum industry by the Bayer process which has the potential for the industrial CO₂ large scale treatment. However, limited by complex components of red mud and harsh operating conditions, it is challenging to directly mineralize CO₂ using red mud to recover carbon and sodium resources and to produce mineralized products simultaneously with high economic value efficiently. Herein, we propose a novel electrochemical CO₂ mineralization strategy for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis, realizing mineralization of CO₂ efficiently and recovery of carbon and sodium resources with economic value. The system utilizes H₂ as the redox-active proton carrier to drive the cathode and anode to generate OH^- and H⁺ at low voltage, respectively. The H⁺ plays as a neutralizer for the alkalinity of red mud and the OH^- is used to mineralize CO₂ into generate high-purity NaHCO₃ product. We verify that the system can effectively recover carbon and sodium resources in red mud treatment process, which shows that the average electrolysis efficiency is 95.3% with high-purity (99.4%) NaHCO₃ product obtained. The low electrolysis voltage of 0.453 V is achieved at 10 mA·cm^-2 in this system indicates a potential low energy consumption industrial process. Further, we successfully demonstrate that this process has the ability of direct efficient mineralization of flue gas CO₂ (15% volume) without extra capturing, being a novel potential strategy for carbon neutralization.

关键词: CO₂ mineralization, Red mud, Electrolysis, Waste treatment, Flue gas

Abstract: CO₂ mineralization as a promising CO₂ mitigation strategy can employ industrial alkaline solid wastes to achieve net emission reduction of atmospheric CO₂. The red mud is a strong alkalinity waste residue produced from the aluminum industry by the Bayer process which has the potential for the industrial CO₂ large scale treatment. However, limited by complex components of red mud and harsh operating conditions, it is challenging to directly mineralize CO₂ using red mud to recover carbon and sodium resources and to produce mineralized products simultaneously with high economic value efficiently. Herein, we propose a novel electrochemical CO₂ mineralization strategy for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis, realizing mineralization of CO₂ efficiently and recovery of carbon and sodium resources with economic value. The system utilizes H₂ as the redox-active proton carrier to drive the cathode and anode to generate OH^- and H⁺ at low voltage, respectively. The H⁺ plays as a neutralizer for the alkalinity of red mud and the OH^- is used to mineralize CO₂ into generate high-purity NaHCO₃ product. We verify that the system can effectively recover carbon and sodium resources in red mud treatment process, which shows that the average electrolysis efficiency is 95.3% with high-purity (99.4%) NaHCO₃ product obtained. The low electrolysis voltage of 0.453 V is achieved at 10 mA·cm^-2 in this system indicates a potential low energy consumption industrial process. Further, we successfully demonstrate that this process has the ability of direct efficient mineralization of flue gas CO₂ (15% volume) without extra capturing, being a novel potential strategy for carbon neutralization.

Key words: CO₂ mineralization, Red mud, Electrolysis, Waste treatment, Flue gas

Heping Xie, Yunpeng Wang, Tao Liu, Yifan Wu, Wenchuan Jiang, Cheng Lan, Zhiyu Zhao, Liangyu Zhu, Dongsheng Yang. Electrochemical CO₂ mineralization for red mud treatment driven by hydrogen-cycled membrane electrolysis[J]. 中国化学工程学报, 2022, 43(3): 14-23.

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