Experimental studies on CO2 absorption and solvent recovery in aqueous blends of monoethanolamine and tetrabutylammonium hydroxide
2021
Perumal, Muthumari | Jayaraman, Dhanalakshmi | Balraj, Ambedkar
Solvent-based post-combustion CO₂ capture process is recently carried out using chemical absorption with aqueous blends of Monoethanolamine (MEA) and Ionic Liquids (IL) as promising solvents. In the present work, the blends of MEA and TetraButylAmmonium Hydroxide [TBA][OH] have been used for CO₂ absorption and desorption process. The solubility of CO₂ is investigated with aqueous mixtures for various carbon loading time by varying compositions of MEA and [TBA][OH] as 30 wt%, 28 wt%, 25 wt%, 20 wt% and 0 wt%, 2 wt%, 5 wt%, 10 wt% respectively. It increases with increasing IL concentration for all the aqueous mixtures. The solvent regeneration was also studied at different temperatures in order to recover and reuse the solvent for cyclic absorption. The slight decrease in CO₂ solubility was noted for 20 wt% MEA +10 wt% [TBA][OH] mixture. However, this mixture exhibits higher absorption/desorption rate and regeneration efficiency than other mixtures. The regeneration energy of this mixture was also calculated as 28.6 kJ/mol of CO₂, which is 32% less than that of baseline 30 wt% MEA. Furthermore, the physicochemical properties such as density, viscosity and surface tension for all the solvent blends were studied experimentally.
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