How to Use sorbent in a Sentence

sorbent

noun

• Poor design can result in hot spots, degrading the sorbent with each use.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• This heats up the sorbent without warming the entire chamber.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• In Sustaera’s case, the company uses a solid sorbent made from an amino acid salt.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• In this approach, an electric current flows across a sorbent that is made of a conductive material.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• One of the challenges of the technique is making a sorbent that won’t degrade from the heat and that conducts electricity uniformly.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• About half of the room is taken up by a rack of tubes used for testing sorbents, and the other half by the DAC machine, nicknamed Phoenix.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• Once the sorbent has become fully saturated, these units are shut and then heated to release the CO2 again so it can be stored deep underground.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2024
• In this method, microwaves selectively break the bonds between CO2 and the sorbent, freeing them for collection.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• Both these methods consume much energy, either to cool surfaces so water vapor condenses or pry water molecules off sorbents through heat and pressure.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Then, steam fills the chambers, heating the sorbent and breaking its chemical bonds with CO2, freeing it for collection—a step called desorption.
  — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026
• Solid agents Climeworks, the Swiss company behind Mammoth in Iceland, uses solid sorbent materials.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• According to AirJoule Technologies, unlike traditional dehumidification systems, the technology uses advanced sorbent materials that efficiently absorb water vapor even at low humidity.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025