Farayandno

Farayandno

Laboratory study of CO2 removal from gas mixture using membrane contactor technology

Document Type : Original research

Author
Parya Amirabedi
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Behbahan Khatam Alanbia University of Technology, Behbahan, Iran
10.22034/farayandno.2025.2070418.2014
Abstract
Membrane contactors are one of the effective technologies for reducing CO2 emissions in the environment. Accordingly, in the present study, membrane contactors containing polyvinyl chloride/calcium carbonate membranes were fabricated to remove CO2 from a gaseous feed with a composition similar to the flue gas composition of a reference cement plant. The average results of contact angle measurements for pure and nanocomposite membranes were 78° and 92°, respectively, indicating an increase in the hydrophobicity of the membranes due to the presence of nanoparticles. Also, the results showed that increasing the gas velocity had a negative effect on the absorption efficiency, but on the contrary, increasing the operating pressure and absorbent velocity increased the absorption efficiency. In addition, analysis of the CO2 absorption results showed that at an absorbent velocity of (200 ml/min), the nanocomposite membrane had the highest CO2 absorption efficiency (88%) and the highest absorption flux (2.17 × 10-3 mol/m2s).
Keywords
CO2
cement plant
membrane contactors
absorption efficiency

Subjects

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