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Solubility of Carbon Dioxide in Aqueous Solutions of Linear Polyamines

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Energy Efficient Solvents for CO2 Capture by Gas-Liquid Absorption

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For the analysis of energy consumption for carbon dioxide capture processes from flue gases, CO2 solubility in aqueous amine solutions of various amines at different temperatures and pressures are crucial. In this work, solubility of CO2 in aqueous solutions of five linear polyamines were determined at 313.15 and 393.15 K and CO2 partial pressure of about 1–500 kPa using the constant-volume method combined with gas chromatography analysis. The amines are diethylenetriamine, dipropylenetriamine, trimethylenediamine, tetraethylenepentamine, triethylene-tetramine. The relationship between molecular structure of these polyamines and capture performance is discussed. The results show that the capture performance is affected by the species and number of amino groups, the carbon number between the amino groups, and the chain length. The corresponding values of CO2 absorption reaction heat were estimated employing the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation and were also discussed with the molecular conformations. Compared with original solvents, polyamines are more energy efficient solvents.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51134017, 21276010 and 51373019), National Science and Technology Support Program of China (No. 2015BAC04B01 and 2015BAC04B02) and State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of China (SKL-ChE-12Z01).

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    Ruilei Zhang, Zhongjie Du & Jianguo Mi

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Chen, J., Zhang, R., Du, Z., Mi, J. (2017). Solubility of Carbon Dioxide in Aqueous Solutions of Linear Polyamines. In: Budzianowski, W. (eds) Energy Efficient Solvents for CO2 Capture by Gas-Liquid Absorption. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47262-1_12

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