Formulation Study of N-Aminoethyl Piperazine and Sodium Glycine CO2 Absorbent

Abstract

Chemical absorption method is one of the most widely used technologies to capture CO2 from flue gas of coal-fired power plants, but it has problems of low absorption capacity and high regeneration energy consumption. Therefore, it is one of the current research focuses to develop a new efficient CO2 absorbent to replace the traditional monoethanolamine (MEA) absorbent..To study the CO2 absorption and desorption performance of aminoethylpiperazine (AEP)+sodium glycinate (SG) complex solution with different proportions, 30%MEA was used as a reference standard. By adding different additives to adjust the pH value of the solution, the regeneration performance of the absorbent was improved. According to the absorption capacity, absorption rate, desorption capacity, desorption rate, absorption-desorption cycle performance and regeneration energy consumption of the absorbent, 35%AEP+5%SG+1% citric acid was selected as the best compound absorbent. The results show that the ratio of 35%AEP+5%SG+1% citric acid absorbent CO2 absorption is 3.70 mol/L, desorption capacity is 3.55 mol/L, desorption rate is 96.05%, unit regeneration energy consumption is 136.75 kJ/mol. Compared with 30%MEA, the absorption capacity is increased by 1.18 times, desorption capacity is increased by 2.17 times, desorption rate is increased by 30.93%, and regeneration energy consumption is decreased by 33.90%. After 10 cycle tests, the compound solution has good cycle stability and good regeneration performance, and has potential application value.

Keywords

• carbon dioxide
• coal-fired power plant
• co2 absorbent
• n-aminoethyl piperazine
• sodium glycine
• citric acid