Carbon dioxide sequestration with magnesium hydroxide and regeneration of magnesium hydroxide
AssigneeCarbonfree Chemicals Holdings, LLC
InventorsJoe Jones, Al Yablonsky
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods of removing carbon dioxide from a gaseous stream using magnesium hydroxide and then regenerating the magnesium hydroxide. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can further comprise using the waste heat from one or more gas streams to provide some or all of the heat needed to drive the reactions. In some embodiments, magnesium chloride is primarily in the form of magnesium chloride dihydrate and is fed to a decomposition reactor to generate magnesium hydroxychloride, which is in turn fed to a second decomposition reactor to generate magnesium hydroxide.
Claims12
A method for sequestering carbon dioxide comprising:
- (a) heating a MgCl2 hydrate-containing material to form step (a) products comprising water, Mg(OH)Cl, and HCl;
- (b) reacting the Mg(OH)Cl with water to form Mg(OH)2 and HCl;
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- (c) reacting the Mg(OH)2 with CO2 and CaCl2 to form MgCl2, CaCO3, and water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.