High temperature sequestration of CO2 using lithium zirconates

Equilibrium and kinetics of CO2 reaction with lithium zirconates synthesised by two different methods are reported. Considerably faster rates of high temperature reaction were obtained for the new material synthesised by a soft-chemistry route without the use of alkaline metal dopants, in comparison with the available literature data, with the highest rate 0.83 wt% min−1. Lithium zirconate was found to be stable in consecutive forward–backward reaction cycles. Reaction rate dependency on the partial CO2 pressure was examined. The apparent slow reaction rates at pCO2