Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 297-303Publisher
KOREAN SOC ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS - KSEE
DOI: 10.4491/eer.2016.042
Keywords
Carbon Capture; Carbon Utilization; Sodium Bicarbonate
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- Korea East West Power Co. (EWP)
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Global warming due to greenhouse gases is an issue of great concern today. Fossil fuel power plants, especially coal-fired thermal power plants, are a major source of carbon dioxide emission. In this work, carbon capture and utilization using sodium hydroxide was studied experimentally. Application for flue gas of a coal-fired power plant is considered. Carbon dioxide, reacting with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide, could be converted to sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3). A bench-scale unit of a reactor system was designed for this experiment. The capture scale of the reactor system was 2 kg of carbon dioxide per day. The detailed operational condition could be determined. The purity of produced sodium bicarbonate was above 97% and the absorption rate of CO2 was above 95% through the experiment using this reactor system. The results obtained in this experiment contain useful information for the construction and operation of a commercial-scale plant. Through this experiment, the possibility of carbon capture for coal power plants using sodium hydroxide could be confirmed.
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