How Today's CCS works
Currently, people use either solid or liquid sorbents, solvents, and membranes for CCS methods. When air is sucked into a CCS machine, sorbents or solvents are deployed. In a different type of CCS machine, the gas has to pass through a membrane, coated with a solution that separates the desired gas from air.
In the diagram to the right, Flue Gas (Gases exiting to the atmosphere via a flue, which is a pipe or channel for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator) is sucked into the CCS machine. While the flue gas passes through a selective membrane, a reaction occurs, separating the CO2 gas from the flue gas. The type of gas you filter varies by the membrane you choose. While the CO2 gas continues down the line, the rest of the gases in the flue gas go to a "Stack", where access gases are stored.
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