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ArticleFrontiers in chemistry2021

Feasibility of Solar Updraft Towers as Photocatalytic Reactors for Removal of Atmospheric Methane-The Role of Catalysts and Rate Limiting Steps.

Yanfang Huang, Yimin Shao, Yang Bai, Qingchun Yuan, Tingzhen Ming, Philip Davies, Xiaohua Lu, Renaud de Richter, Wei Li

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Article in Frontiers in chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yanfang HuangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Nantong Vocational University, Nantong, China.
Yimin ShaoInstitute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Yang BaiInstitute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Qingchun YuanSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Tingzhen MingSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Philip DaviesSchool of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Xiaohua LuState Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.
Renaud de RichterTour-Solaire.fr, Montpellier, France.
Wei LiInstitute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the alarming speed of global warming, greenhouse gas removal from atmosphere will be absolutely necessary in the coming decades. Methane is the second most harmful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. There is an emerging technology proposed to incorporating photocatalysis with solar updraft Towers (SUT) to remove methane from the air at a planetary scale. In this study, we present a deep analysis by calculating the potential of methane removal in relation to the dimensions and configuration of SUT using different photocatalysts. The analysis shows that the methane removal rate increases with the SUT dimensions and can be enhanced by changing the configuration design. More importantly, the low methane removal rate on conventional TiO

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climate changemethanenon-CO2 greenhouse gasesphotocatalysissolar updraft

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PMID34568287
PMCPMC8461309

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