Heat of Absorption of CO2 with Aqueous Solutions of MEA: New Experimental Data

Abstract

Heat of absorption of CO2 and partial pressure of CO2 with aqueous solutions of MEA has been measured in a reaction calorimeter CPA122 at 40, 80, and 120 oC for 30 wt% MEA solution and at 120 oC for 10 and 70 wt % MEA solutions. Heat of absorption measured in this work is also differential in loading, i.e. CO2 has been added to the reactor in steps. An experimental set-up used by Kim and Svendsen (2007) has been used in this work after a small modification. Experiments show that heat of absorption depends both on loading and temperature, though the temperature dependency is not as high as was reported earlier. Application of the Gibbs –Helmholz correlation for the estimation of the heat of absorption based on experimental PCO2 data is discussed.