Capturing carbon dioxide before it leaves a coal-fired power plant and enters the atmosphere is the goal of a research project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, funded by $3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy.
RPI is one of eight institutions to receive the funding for the carbon capture work. Miao Yu, an associate professor of chemical and bio-engineering at the school, is leading the research. He tells WAMC’s Brian Shields a sorbent with pores will take in the carbon dioxide in the flue gas or exhaust from a power plant.