1D and 2D absorption-rate/kinetic modeling and simulation of carbon dioxide absorption into mixed aqueous solutions of MDEA and PZ in a laminar jet apparatus

Abstract The kinetics of the reaction between carbon dioxide (CO2) and mixed solutions of methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) and piperazine (PZ) was investigated experimentally in a laminar jet apparatus. The experimental kinetic data were obtained under no interfacial turbulence and over a temperature range from 313 to 333 K, MDEA/PZ wt% concentration ratios of 27/3, 24/6 and 21/9, and CO2 loadings from 0.0095 to 0.33 mol CO2/mol amine. In addition, a new absorption-rate/kinetics model for the kinetics of the mixed of solvents was developed, which takes into account the coupling between chemical equilibrium, mass transfer, and all possible chemical reactions involved in the CO2 reaction with MDEA/PZ solvent. The partial differential equations of this model were solved by the finite element numerical method (FEM) based on COMSOL software. The obtained experimental kinetics data were used to obtain the kinetic parameters of CO2 absorption into MDEA/PZ solutions. The reaction-rate constant obtained for PZ blended with MDEA was kPZ = 2.572 × 1012 exp(−5211/T). The 2D model for the blended amines MDEA/PZ has revealed the concentration profiles of all the species in both the radial and axial directions of the laminar jet which has enabled a better understanding of the correct sequence in which the reaction steps involved in the reactive absorption of CO2 in aqueous mixed MDEA/PZ solution occur. It also revealed that PZ may be depleted by the time the solvent blend of MDEA/PZ with a loading greater than 0.015 mol/mol amine is exposed to CO2 from the top of the laminar jet absorber.

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