Development of Covalent Organic Polymers (COP-4) Adsorbent Using Microwave Reactor for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Natural Gas

The presence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in natural gas stream become a problem since it brought negative impact to the heating value of the natural gas, as well as causing corrosion to pipelines and hydrate formation problem. Recently the new kind of adsorbent has been discovered to have the high capacity for CO2 adsorption that includes Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), Covalent-Organic Framework (COF) and Covalent Organic Polymer (COPs). This research is concentrated to develop the COP-4 adsorbent using microwave reactor method. The main challenges in this research are the limitation information from literature regarding the COP synthesis using microwave reactor as well as longer time preparation by using conventional method. This method propose a faster synthesis method of COP-4 and theoretically will give higher yield and less reaction time. After synthesis, COP-4 sample undergo the characterization test included FTIR, TGA, SEM, XRD and BET. The results will be compared to the COP material developed using conventional method. Consequently, this study will contribute towards the development of sustainable CO2 removal technologies.