Study of carbon dioxide capture from industrial incinerator flue gas on a laboratory scale pilot

The paper presents a study of carbon dioxide capture from industrial incinerator flue gas on a laboratory scale. It first offers the project context and the incinerator gas features. Starting from these specificities, we propose a tool for evaluating the sustainability of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture with alkanolamine processes from incinerator flue gas and we chose the formulation of 30 %wt of monoethanolamine (MEA) in water as benchmark solvent. A summary of previous studies is presented for the solvent degradation and the experimental setups. The data needs were identified for a consistent evaluation of the CO2 capture from incinerator flue gas and an innovative pilot was designed to conduct the study. We present a detailed description of the experimental facility and analytical methods and we focus on the innovative features of the setup: A multipurpose tool for large parametric studies of process performance (energy cost and capturing efficiency) vs. process specification and input gas composition. A degradation measurement setup which complete previous works by studying degradation mechanisms in a full process loop and with corrosion control. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.