Elsevier

Energy Procedia

Volume 1, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 1227-1234
Energy Procedia

Quantitative evaluation of the aqueous-ammonia process for CO2 capture using fundamental data and thermodynamic analysis

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Abstract

There is strong world-wide interest in developing new and improved processes for post-combustion capture of CO2, usually using chemical absorption. Developers of new processes make positive claims for their proposals in terms of low energy consumption, but these are usually difficult to validate. This paper demonstrates that rigorous application of thermodynamic analysis and process simulation provides a powerful way to quantitatively evaluate the energy requirements of CO2-capture processes by applying this methodology to the analysis of the chilled-ammonia process.

Keywords

Post-combustion CO2 capture
Thermodynamic analysis
Process modeling
Electrolytes
Absorption
Solution nonideality
Speciation
Alkanolamines
Ammonia
Heat of reaction

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