RESEARCH ARTICLE

Improved rate-based modeling of carbon dioxide absorption with aqueous monoethanolamine solution

  • Stefania MOIOLI 1 ,
  • Laura A. PELLEGRINI , 1 ,
  • Simone GAMBA 1 ,
  • Ben LI 2
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  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, I-20133 Milano, Italy
  • 2. School of Chemical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Anshan 114051, China

Received date: 05 Dec 2013

Accepted date: 11 Jan 2014

Published date: 05 Mar 2014

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

This paper focuses on modeling and simulation of a post-combustion carbon dioxide capture in a coal-fired power plant by chemical absorption using monoethanolamine. The aim is to obtain a reliable tool for process simulation: a customized rate-based model has been developed and implemented in the ASPEN Plus® software, along with regressed parameters for the Electrolyte-NRTL model worked out in a previous research. The model is validated by comparison with experimental data of a pilot plant and can provide simulation results very close to experimental data.

Cite this article

Stefania MOIOLI , Laura A. PELLEGRINI , Simone GAMBA , Ben LI . Improved rate-based modeling of carbon dioxide absorption with aqueous monoethanolamine solution[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2014 , 8(1) : 123 -131 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-014-1415-0

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