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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages 52-58Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2014.01.033
Keywords
Microporous tube-in-tube microchannel reactor; Carbon dioxide capture; N-methyldiethanolamine; Volume mass transfer coefficient
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21176013, 21121064, 21106176]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China [NCET-12-0760]
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Global warming due to greenhouse effects is on the rise, and many efforts to reduce emissions of CO2 which is a major greenhouse gas from combustion of carbonaceous materials are being made. In this study, chemical absorption of CO2 into N-methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) solution combined with effective activator piperazine (PZ), from a gas mixture containing N-2 was carried out in a high-throughput microporous tube-in-tube microchannel reactor (MTMCR). As a novel microreactor, MTMCR greatly intensifies gas-liquid mass transfer due to its large gas-liquid interfacial area. The effects of different parameters on the overall volume mass transfer coefficient and CO2 removal efficiency were investigated. The results showed that both mass transfer coefficient and CO2 removal efficiency increased with an increase in the liquid flow rate, temperature and concentration of liquid solvent. Also, the gas-liquid mass transfer efficiency increased with a decrease in the size of the micropore and annular channel of MTMCR. The volume mass transfer coefficient and CO2 removal efficiency reached 1.70 s(-1) and 97%, respectively, at flow rates of 100 L/h and 5.32 L/h for gas and liquid respectively, with alkanolamine solutions containing 10 wt.% MDEA and 4 wt.% PZ. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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