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Amine Grafted Adsorbents for Efficient CO 2 Capture. Dr Joe Wood School of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham, UK. Midlands Energy Consortium International Showcase 5 th October 2011. Overview. Step-change Adsorbents For Carbon Capture
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Amine Grafted Adsorbents for Efficient CO2 Capture Dr Joe Wood School of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham, UK Midlands Energy Consortium International Showcase 5th October 2011
Overview • Step-change Adsorbents For Carbon Capture • Nottingham, Birmingham, UCL, Liverpool. Sponsors EPSRC & E.ON • Post-combustion capture • Hydrotalcite clays • Amine grafting • TGA studies of CO2 uptake • Next Generation of Activated Carbon Adsorbents for the Pre-Combustion Capture of CO2 UK-China CCS Call • Nottingham, Birmingham, UCL, Warwick, Tsinghua Universities, Chinese Inst. Coal Chemistry. UK Sponsor EPSRC • Pre-combustion capture • CO2 breakthrough curves • gProms modelling
Post-Combustion Technology Hydrotalcite solid adsorbent Absorption in to liquid amines Moving bed adsorption schematic
Step Change Adsorbents for Carbon Dioxide Capture • Aim: To develop advanced adsorbents capable of capturing > 3 mmol/g CO2 • Adsorbents should also have desirable kinetics, stability and ability to be regenerated Proposed operating conditions for capture plant based on a temperature swing adsorption process (Drage et al, J. Materials Chem 2011).
Hydrotalcite Clays • Hydroxycarbonate of Mg and Al • Brucite (Mg(OH)2) layers • Mg2+ ions substituted by other metals • (CO3)2- ions in the interlayer
Improved exfoliation method Mg2+ or Al3+ OH NH2 Adding certain amount of water (eg. 0.3ml/g) Si 90oC,24h Toluene US Dodecyl sulfate Brucite like layer Harlick, P. and Sayari, A. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2007, 46, 446-458.
Different Types of Aminosilanes • (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (N1) • N-(2-Aminoethyl-3-aminopropyl) trimethoxysilane (N2) • N-3-(Trimethoxysilyl)propyl) diethylenetriamine (N3)
CO2 Adsorption by TGA Switch from N2 to CO2 CO2 adsorbed
Next Generation of Activated Carbon Adsorbents for Pre-Combustion CO2 capture
Experimental Work Cycle 1 adjusted by 20% and cycle 2 by 10% Zeolite X adsorbent
Modelling and Simulation • Equations • Component Mass Balance • Adsorption rate equation • Approximated Langmuir equation • Assumptions • Ideal gas law; Pressure drop by Darcy’s equation; Isothermal operation; Bed in thermal equilibrium; No variation in radial direction
Modelling and Simulation Decreasing Bed Length
Acknowledgements • EPSRC and E.ON • Dr Jiawei Wang • Dr Trevor Drage, Prof. Colin Snape and STEPCAP project partners • Simon Caldwell, Dr Bushra Al-Duri