Lithium-sodium metazirco
nate solid solutions, Li
2-xNa
xZrO
3, were tested as CO
2 captors. The thermala
nalyses of these materials showed that all the solid solutions present similar behaviors under air and N
2.The samples lost weight due to two different processes, desorption of physisorbed water (~100
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C) anda decarbo
nation process (400-700
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C). In fact, the quantities of water and CO
2 desorbed increased as afunction of the sodium content. Thermal a
nalyses into a CO
2 flux showed that Li
2-xNa
xZr
2O
7 solid solutionspresent a high CO
2 absorption. The solid solutions absorb CO
2 between 400 and 600
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C, but samplescontaining the sodium phase absorbed CO
2 in two distinct steps. First, at low temperatures, there is aCO
2 chemisorption, only at the surface of the particles, forming a carbo
nate shell. Later, when thetemperature reaches 400
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
C, or more, a second absorption process takes place. In this process lithiumand/or sodium atoms diffuse from the core of the particles to the surface, through an exter
nal carbo
nateshell. The differences observed in the CO
2 sorption processes were explained with thermody
namic data.