화학공학소재연구정보센터
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Vol.132, 116-125, 2019
CO2 equilibrium solubility in and physical properties for monoethanolamine glycinate at low pressures
In practical applications, water vapor always coexists with natural gas. As such, the concentration of the ionic liquids (ILs), as promising absorbents for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal, is a crucial parameter sensitively affecting CO2 solubility. In this work, a novel amino acid anion (Glycinate) based IL was synthesized, characterized, and applied for CO2 uptake. Preliminary physicochemical measurements at temperatures of 303-323 K showed that increasing the IL purity has adverse effects on density, viscosity, and surface tension of the [MEA][GLY]. The impact of the presence of water in the IL samples was also investigated on the CO2 loadings over the temperature ranges of 303-323 K and up to a pressure of 600 kPa. Among the four aqueous solutions of the IL, the highest CO2 loading of 1.02 (mol CO2/mol IL) was achieved for aqueous IL of 25 wt% at an equilibrium pressure of 1.35 bar and a temperature of 303.15 K. It is found that with increasing equilibrium pressure to about 6.2 bar, the loading rate has reached 1.32 (mol CO2/mol IL), which is almost 2.64 times higher than that of the conventional primary amine (0.5 mol CO2/mol IL). It is found that although the proposed IL is a promising absorbent for the capture of CO2, highly concentrated of the [MEA][GLY] is not the feasible concentration for CO2 uptake. (C) 2019 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.