Evaluating CO₂ Capture Performance of Trisolvent MEA–BEA–AMP with Heterogeneous Catalysts in a Novel Bench-Scale Pilot Plant

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide To reduce the huge energy cost of CO 2 capture technology applicable in industry, the CO 2 absorption–desorption performance was conducted in a novel bench-scale pilot plant with hot water as a heat source. The trisolvent MEA(monoethanol amine)–BEA(butylethanol amine)–AMP(2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol) was prepared at a specific concentration to analyze the CO 2 capture performance and compared with 5 M MEA as the benchmark. Meanwhile, several solid acid catalysts, blended H-ZSM-5/γ-Al 2 O 3 (1/2), or HND-8, were packed in the desorber, and the solid base catalyst, CaCO 3 or CaMg(CO 3 ) 2, was packed in the absorber with random packing. The CO 2 absorption efficiency (AE), cyclic capacity (CC), and heat duty (HD) were tested onto MEA–BEA–AMP and MEA under various operating conditions. Experimental results indicated that the performance of 4.3 mol/L MEA–BEA–AMP was significantly better than 5 M MEA under both catalytic and noncatalytic operation. The most energy efficient combination of this study was discovered as 0.3 + 2 + 2 mol/L MEA–BEA–AMP, with 50 g (CaCO 3 /CaMg(CO 3 ) 2 ) in the absorber and 150 g H-ZSM-5/γ-Al 2 O 3 (1/2) in the desorber. The heat duty reached as low as 2.4 GJ/tCO 2 at a F G of 7.0 L/min and a F L of 70 mL/min. These results were highly applicable in an industrial amine scrubbing pilot plant for CO 2 capture.