Professor Colin Snape

It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution (2020)
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Stanton, T., Kay, P., Johnson, M., Chan, F. K. S., Gomes, R. L., Hughes, J., Meredith, W., Orr, H. G., Snape, C. E., Taylor, M., Weeks, J., Wood, H., & Xu, Y. (2021). It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(1), Article e1490. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1490

Mismanaged plastic waste poses a complex threat to the environments that it contaminates, generating considerable concern from academia, industry, politicians, and the general public. This concern has driven global action that presents a unique oppor... Read More about It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution.

Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit (2020)
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Kim, J. Y., Woo, J. M., Jo, S. H., Kim, H., Lee, S. Y., Yi, C. K., Moon, J. H., Nam, H., Won, Y., Stevens, L. A., Sun, C., Liu, H., Liu, J., Snape, C. E., & Park, Y. C. (2020). Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit. Chemical Engineering Journal, 407, Article 127209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127209

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Polyethyleneimine (PEI)/silica adsorbents have been considered as a promising candidate for post-combustion CO2 capture, but the limited process study has been performed on a pilot-scale unit. Herein we report the 150 h continuou... Read More about Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit.

Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride (2020)
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Tapia-Ruiz, N., Gordon, A. G., Jewell, C. M., Edwards, H. K., Dunnill, C. W., Blackman, J. M., Snape, C. P., Brown, P. D., MacLaren, I., Baldoni, M., Besley, E., Titman, J. J., & Gregory, D. H. (2020). Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride. Nature Communications, 11, Article 4492. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6

As the only stable binary compound formed between an alkali metal and nitrogen, lithium nitride is a material with remarkable properties and a model material for energy applications involving the transport of lithium ions. Following a materials desig... Read More about Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride.

Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride (2020)
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Tapia-Ruiz, N., Gordon, A. G., Jewell, C. M., Edwards, H. K., Dunnill, C. W., Blackman, J. M., Snape, C. P., Brown, P. D., MacLaren, I., Baldoni, M., Besley, E., Titman, J. J., & Gregory, D. H. (2020). Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 4492. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6

© 2020, The Author(s). As the only stable binary compound formed between an alkali metal and nitrogen, lithium nitride possesses remarkable properties and is a model material for energy applications involving the transport of lithium ions. Following... Read More about Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride.

Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures (2020)
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Liu, X., Liu, J., Sun, C., Liu, H., Wang, W., Smith, E., Jiang, L., Chen, X., & Snape, C. (2020). Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(33), 17025-17035. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta01417f

Developing effective carbon materials for post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) has received great attentions over many recent years, owing to their desirable adsorption−desorption performance and exceptional thermo-oxidative stability compared to virtua... Read More about Design and development of 3D hierarchical ultra-microporous CO2-sieving carbon architectures for potential flow-through CO2 capture at typical practical flue gas temperatures.

Progress in the CO2 Capture Technologies for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Units—A Review (2020)
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Güleç, F., Meredith, W., & Snape, C. E. (2020). Progress in the CO2 Capture Technologies for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Units—A Review. Frontiers in Energy Research, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2020.00062

© Copyright © 2020 Güleç, Meredith and Snape. Heavy industries including cement, iron and steel, oil refining, and petrochemicals are collectively responsible for about 22% of global CO2 emissions. Among these industries, oil refineries account for 4... Read More about Progress in the CO2 Capture Technologies for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Units—A Review.

Demonstrating the applicability of chemical looping combustion for the regeneration of fluid catalytic cracking catalysts (2020)
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Güleç, F., Meredith, W., Sun, C. G., & Snape, C. E. (2020). Demonstrating the applicability of chemical looping combustion for the regeneration of fluid catalytic cracking catalysts. Chemical Engineering Journal, 389, Article 124492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.124492

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units are responsible for roughly 25% of CO2 emissions from oil refineries, which themselves account for 4–6% of total global CO2 emissions. Although post- and oxy-combustion technologies have been... Read More about Demonstrating the applicability of chemical looping combustion for the regeneration of fluid catalytic cracking catalysts.

Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor (2020)
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Zhang, W., Sun, C., Snape, C. E., Sun, X., & Liu, H. (2020). Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 95, Article 102975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2020.102975

To accelerate the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) based on the solid amine adsorbents towards a practical scale application relevant to Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plants, this study has evaluated the cyclic performance of... Read More about Cyclic performance evaluation of a polyethylenimine/silica adsorbent with steam regeneration using simulated NGCC flue gas and actual flue gas of a gas-fired boiler in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor.

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