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With regard to the climate policy that has been adopted, the implementation of the carbon capture and storage and carbon capture and utilization technologies seems to be the unavoidable solution to reduce emissions from the energy sector. As most Polish energy is derived from coal, the government has taken steps to reduce CO2 emissions by initiating a strategic research program—“Advanced technologies for energy generation: Development of a technology for highly efficient zero-emission coal-fired power units integrated with CO2 capture.” This paper presents the results of an investigation of a process for continuous removal of CO2 from the gas stream on a laboratory unit. This study was conducted at the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze, Poland. The purpose of the tests that were conducted was to establish the effect of the sorption column load on CO2 recovery and on the process regeneration heat duty. In the second part of the paper, a simple comparison of three amine solvents is presented as a part of the solvent selection process for further pilot plant tests.
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Abbreviations
- MEA:
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Monoethanolamine
- AMP:
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2-Amino-2-methyl-1-propanol
- PZ:
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Piperazine
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Krótki, A., Więcław-Solny, L., Tatarczuk, A. et al. Laboratory Studies of Post-combustion CO2 Capture by Absorption with MEA and AMP Solvents. Arab J Sci Eng 41, 371–379 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-015-2008-z
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