| dc.description.abstract | Carbon dioxide (CO2) which contributes to 80% of greenhouse gaseous can cause
global warming. Moreover, CO2 emission may create environmental and public health
issues if no further action taken to prevent or reduce it. Nowadays, among the most
effective and economic CO2 removal is by using amine solutions, for example MEA and
TEA in aqueous solution. Hence, the purpose of this research study is to investigate the
potential of carbon dioxide absorption by using amine solution based on different
parameters which include solution flow rate, air flow rate and concentration of amine
solutions in the absorption unit. The CO2 will flow through the gas absorption column and
in parallel, amine solvent flow through that column counter currently with the gas. Three
different concentrations of amine solvents were used and the readings were recorded every
5 minutes. It was found that, as the amine solution flow rate increased, the percentage of
CO2 absorbed decreased. In addition, increasing the air flow rate decreases the percentage
of CO2 absorbed which is found proportional to the former results. From this research,
optimum CO2 absorbed is 3.68% when MEA concentration is 1.0 M, solution flow rate is 1
GPM and air flow rate is 1.0 SCFM. | en_US |
