Facilely Tuning the Morphologies of Tertiary Amine-Functionalized SBA-15 for Optimizing Selective SO2 Capture

The amine -based materials pose high potential for the adsorption of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ). This work is aimed at modulating the morphologies of SBA -15 adsorbents by controlling the precursor self -assembly processes, for the sake of optimizing the utilization efficiency of amine species in the polytertiary amine (PTA)-functionalized SBA15. It results that worm -like SBA -15 (WLS) material shows a better particle aspect ratio and well-defined pore structure, which helps to optimize the adsorption sites invoked by the preferable dispersion and exposure of PTA, thus amplifying the chemisorption of SO 2 on the adsorbent. Consequently, the functionalized WLS-PTA adsorbent exhibits remarkable SO 2 adsorption performance (15.43 mmol/g), exceptionally high selectivities of SO 2 /N 2 (27522) and SO 2 /CO 2 (652). Surprisingly, the desulfurization capacity can be further enhanced by the positive effect of the water vapor co -fed. It is unveiled that the whole SO 2 adsorption process mainly follows the dual site Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm model and Bangham model. This work sheds light on the design of polymer -solid composite adsorbents for selective capture of SO 2 .