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CO2 Removal Techniques and Processes

The CO2 removal process step removes nearly all the CO2 from the reaction gas using chemical absorption with aqueous amine solutions like monoethanolamine or physical absorption with solvents like Selexol or propylene carbonate. Another emerging CO2 removal method is pressure swing adsorption, which can combine CO2 removal and methanation in one step if high CO2 purity is not required, otherwise a solvent scrubbing of the low pressure off-gas is used to recover pure CO2.

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CO2 Removal Techniques and Processes

The CO2 removal process step removes nearly all the CO2 from the reaction gas using chemical absorption with aqueous amine solutions like monoethanolamine or physical absorption with solvents like Selexol or propylene carbonate. Another emerging CO2 removal method is pressure swing adsorption, which can combine CO2 removal and methanation in one step if high CO2 purity is not required, otherwise a solvent scrubbing of the low pressure off-gas is used to recover pure CO2.

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CO2 removal

This process step removes the CO2 from the reaction gas and the quantity corresponds to nearly
all the carbon introduced as feed gas into the overall process. The residual CO 2 content is
usually in the range of 50 – 3000 ppmv. The CO2 is removed in a chemical or physical
absorption process. The solvents used in chemical absorption processes are mainly aqueous
amine solutions, e.g. mono ethanolamine (MEA) activated methyl diethanolamine (aMDEA) or
hot potassium carbonate solutions. Two typically used physical absorption solvents are glycol
dimethylethers (Selexol) and propylene carbonate. The MEA process requires a high
regeneration energy. Table 2.4 gives an overview.
Another emerging process is pressure swing adsorption (PSA). This process has the potential to
combine in one step both the classical CO2 removal and the methanation (next process step).
This is valid for all cases where the CO2 purity is unimportant. However, if pure CO2 is needed
as a product, then a classical solvent scrubbing of the low pressure off-gas of the PSA can be
used to recover CO2.

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