At the 2013 Carbon Management Technology Conference (CMTC13), Tony Butterfield from the University of Utah presented teaching modules on carbon capture designed for high school teachers to help their students understand more about carbon capture (links to modules below). The modules were developed by Alissa Park, Columbia University, is association with the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (RCN-CCUS).
For more information on RCN-CCUS, visit: http://www.aiche.org/ccus-network
Carbon Capture in Water module: http://www.che.utah.edu/outreach/module?p_id=37
Carbon Captured Chalk module: http://www.che.utah.edu/outreach/module?p_id=36
For other K-12 outreach modules from the University of Utah, visit: http://www.che.utah.edu/~tony/OTM/
1. Carbon Capture
Chalk From CO2
Anthony Butterfield
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Utah
Based on a Teaching Module Developed by Alissa Park
Developed by The NSF Research Coordination Network on CCUS
http://www.aiche.org/ccus-network
http://www.che.utah.edu/outreach/module?p_id=36
2. Safety
• Everyone put on:
– A pair of safety glass.
– A pair of gloves.
CaCl2
Phenol Red
Na2CO3
26. What Would It Take
to Capture Your Carbon?
• Carbon footprint calculator:
– http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/ind-calculator.html
– https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+calculator
• If you don’t know an
answer use the given
American household
average.
28. What Would It Take
to Capture Your Carbon?
• If we use this set of reactions:
CO2(g) + 2 NaOH(aq) + CaCl2(aq) → CaCO3(s) + 2 NaCl(aq) + H2O
How much reactants will we need to use in
your personal carbon sequester plant each
day?
Formula
MW (g/mol)
CO2
3.76e7 g/yr
NaOH
40
CaCl2
111
CaCO3
83,000 lbs/yr
44
100
NaCl
58.4
H2O
18
29. What It Might
Look Like…
Stuff 2
Stuff 1
Process 1
Stuff 4
Stuff 3
Process 2
Stuff 6
Stuff 5
Process 3
Stuff 7
Stuff 8
Who Has the
Best Design?
Process 4
Stuff 9
30. Design Your Carbon Capture Plant
some things to consider…
• What process do you need to get CO2 out of
the air and into water?
• What should you use to mix the two solutions
you mixed today, and how big should it be?
• How are you going to separate your chalk
product apart from the salt water product?
• How can you ensure complete reactions?
• How can you save on resources? Recycle?
35. K-12 Carbon Capture
Chalk From CO2
Anthony Butterfield
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Utah
Based on a Teaching Module Developed by Alissa Park
Developed by The NSF Research Coordination Network on CCUS
http://www.aiche.org/ccus-network
http://www.che.utah.edu/outreach/module?p_id=36