Tiny 'Cages' Could Trap Carbon Dioxide And Help Stop Climate Change

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Source: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Posted: March 20, 2006
Tiny 'Cages' Could Trap Carbon Dioxide And Help Stop Climate Change

A natural physical process has been identified that could play a key role in secure sub-seabed storage of carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fuelled power stations.

The researchers are investigating how hydrates, ice-like crystalline compounds, could help with CO2 disposal. Within the hydrate structure water molecules form cage-like cavities which trap molecules of 2. (Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

With EPSRC funding, a team at the Centre for Gas Hydrate Research, at Heriot-Watt University is investigating how, in some conditions, seawater and carbon dioxide could combine into ice-like compounds in which the water molecules form cavities that act as cages, trapping the carbon dioxide molecules.

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