Patent ID: 8394350

Claim:
A method of harvesting carbon dioxide from a gas mixture, comprising the steps of: processing the gas mixture in a water wash producing water with the gas mixture dissolve in said water, providing sorbent pebbles, each of said sorbent pebbles including a sorbent pebble body made of a material that absorbs the carbon dioxide, providing a surface layer on said sorbent pebble body with said surface layer having an attached catalyst or enzyme that promotes the transformation of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid, adding said sorbent pebbles made of a material that absorbs the carbon dioxide with a surface layer having an attached catalyst or enzyme that promotes the transformation of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid to said water with the gas mixture dissolve in said water forming a slurry, and heating said slurry to the boiling point of water and releasing the carbon dioxide from said slurry for harvesting the carbon dioxide from the gas mixture.