Porous carbons derived from beached Posidonia Oceanica to CO2 capture performance

Activated carbons (AC) have attracted the attention of many researchers due to their excellent properties, such as thermo-stability, high performance, large surface area and high adsorptive capacity [1,2,3]. Carbons adsorption properties (CO2), which are mainly determined from their porous structure and high internal surface areas, have achieved the attention for different energetic applications such as storage and CO2 capture (eg CO2 capture from the syngas stream arising from gasification process) [4]. The most common precursors used for the preparation high grade of AC are organic materials that contain lignin, cellulose and lignocellulose. Accordingly, use of biomasses could represent a valid opportunity to produce porous carbons by renewable raw materials. In this paper the feasibility to use a local biomass (Posidonia Oceanica) as a raw precursor, for the production of activated carbons (AC) with a high surface area and remarkable CO2 adsorption properties process was investigated.