Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology is a new online-only scientific journal dedicated to the management of greenhouse gases.
The journal will focus on methods for carbon capture and storage (CCS), as well as utilisation of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a feedstock for fuels and chemicals. GHG will also provide insight into strategies to mitigate emissions of other greenhouse gases. Significant advances will be explored in critical reviews, commentary articles and short communications of broad interest. In addition, the journal will offer analyses of relevant economic and political issues, industry developments and case studies.
Readership
Research Scientists, Engineers and Managers in the energy/power industry, Research Institutes, Chemical Engineers, Chemists, Separation Scientists, Geochemists, Geophysicists, Geologists, Environmental Scientists, Scientists working in agriculture/agronomy/forestry, Policy Makers in Government, Civil Engineers, and Non-Government Organisations.
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Carbon dioxide capture
- Carbon dioxide storage
- Carbon dioxide transportation
- CO2 Utilisation
- Other greenhouse gases
- Regulation, economics and planning
Amino acid salts solutions have been proposed as potential absorption liquids for direct air capture of CO2 from the atmosphere, but little is known about their relevant CO2 solubilities, CO2 mass transfer rates, and susceptibility to oxidative and thermal degradation under conditions relevant to direct air capture. This study looked at the overall solubility of CO2 and CO2 mass transfer rates into a series of amino acid salts solutions, and assessed the robustness of these solutions to thermal and oxidative degradation. CO2 absorption rates into amino acid salts solutions were in the same order of magnitude as aqueous monoethanolamine. Considering the degradation, CO2 absorption capacity, and CO2 mass transfer rate data, the potassium salts of proline and sarcosine are proposed as the most promising amino acid salts for further evaluation in direct air capture processes. 
