CFD simulation of carbon dioxide in flue gas with monoethanolamine in structured packing
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    The method of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) containing reactive mass transfer is adopted to simulate the process of carbon dioxide capture from flue gases with MEA in structured packing. The simulation of complex flows with second order reaction of CO2 with MEA is built in representative elementary units (REU) of structured packed column. Various operating conditions including ratio of gas inlet flow to liquid inlet flow, CO2 inlet mass fraction, MEA mole fraction and pressure on CO2 capture process are examined. The absorption efficiency increases with the addition of MEA concentration and operating pressure, but decreases with CO2 concentration and gas-liquid flow ratio. The influences of different factors on the absorption are ordered as MEA mole fraction, CO2 mass fraction, ratio of gas inlet flow to liquid inlet flow and pressure. The CFD results of CO2 absorption rate at different operating parameters are consistent with the reported ones, and the optimal parameters are got.

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  • Received:November 22,2015
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