Researchers at the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences have developed a water-based technique for removing carbon dioxide from industrial emissions. According to the Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT the invention could be a game-changer for reducing one of industry’s most pernicious greenhouse gases.
In recent years there hasn’t been much progress in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However a team of researchers at the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences appears to have made a major breakthrough in recovering the greenhouse gas from industrial emissions, offering some hope for reversing the creep of climate change.
Current techniques for removing carbon dioxide from emissions employ harmful chemicals that may harm the environmental or human health. The Mikkeli test laboratory in Savonlinna has been removing carbon dioxide by percolating it through clean water.
“We dissolve the flue gas emissions in water and using low pressure we separate the carbon dioxide from the liquid as a gas,” explained researcher Teijo Linnanen.
The recovery device developed by Linnanen and his colleagues has already been patented and VTT estimates that the Finnish invention could work as well in the real world as it does under lab conditions. (more)
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Source: YLE