Absorption of Carbon Dioxide

Essay by eeh120, University, Bachelor's, A+, August 2005

download word file, 4 pages 3.7

Downloaded 23 times

Comment: you should have e-mail submissions so that charts and pics can be part of the work

Procedure

1.         Prepare 1 molar NaOH solution for liquid feed. Prepare 2 mol% CO2 gas feed.

2.         Record base feed conductivity (time = 0)

3.         Start vapor feed up the column.

4.         Start liquid feed down the column. (Turn on pump 2 after opening valves 6 and 7.)

5.         Let column reach pseudo-steady state. Monitor vapor flow rate using anubar. Measure bottoms flow rate by colleting bottoms output for 30 seconds. Monitor pressure drop across the column using anubar.

6.         Record conductivity of feed and bottoms streams every two minutes.

7.         Take 1 mL samples of entering and exiting vapor streams. Use gas chromatography to analyze CO2 composition in the entering and exiting vapor streams.

8.         Change the liquid flow rate after 40% carbonation and continue to record data as specified above.

ChemCAD Simulation

Table 1: Results from ChemCAD output and calculations of CO2 bottoms weight fraction and %recovery

        G         L         hM         F         wF         D         wD         B         wB         recovery

Effect         (m3/h)         (L/h)                  (kg/h)                  (kg/h)                  (kg/h)                  %

Avg.         350         400         0.5         451.149         0.03047         445.336         0.0079         419.337         0.02438         74.39

G         450         400         0.5         580.048         0.03047         573.528         0.00953         420.044         0.02907         69.09

L         350         500         0.5         451.149         0.03047         445.049         0.00772         523.005         0.01971         75.00

GL         450         500         0.5         580.048         0.03047         572.632         0.00800         524.322         0.02497         74.08

hM         350         400         0.4         451.149         0.03047         446.092         0.01110         419.545         0.02096         63.98

hM         350         400         0.3         451.149         0.03047         446.853         0.01506         418.784         0.01675         51.03

hM         350         400         0.2         451.149         0.03047         447.872         0.01962         417.765         0.01187         36.08

The weight fraction equivalent of carbon dioxide in the bottoms is calculated from a mass balance on carbon dioxide. The mass equivalent of carbon dioxide in the bottoms is equal to the entering mass of carbon...