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Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification 165 (2021) 108447
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Intensification
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Rotating liquid sheet contactor: A new gas-liquid contactor system in CO2

absorption by nanofluids
Morteza Mehdipour , Peyman Keshavarz , Mohammad Reza Rahimpour *
Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71345, Iran
A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T
Keywords: In this work, the rotating liquid sheet (RLS) contactor was designed and introduced as a new gas-liquid contactor
Rotating liquid sheet with many benefits compared to conventional technologies for CO2 absorption from CO2/N2 gas mixtures using
Nanofluid aqueous SiO2 and ZnO nano solutions as physical absorbents. To evaluate the performance of the RLS system, a
CO2 separation
helical slot in the wall of central tube was used to provide a high interfacial contact area between gas and liquid
Absorption
Mass transfer
phases. The nanofluids were directly exposed to the gas stream to investigate the impact of different operational
parameters including tube rotation rate, nanoparticles concentration, gas flow rate and CO2 concentration in the
inlet stream. Obtained results clearly revealed that, tube rotation could enhance the characteristics of mass
transfer from the gas stream to the liquid phase. Moreover, increasing the gas flow rate and CO2 inlet concen
tration resulted in the capture efficiency to decrease. Also, the absorption flux improves with increasing of the
gas flow rate, while it first increases and then decreases with increment of CO2 inlet concentration. Ultimately,
the CO2 absorption measurements confirmed that separation enhances significantly in presence of nanoparticles
so that the ZnO nanofluids are more effective than SiO2 nanofluids at the all experimental conditions.
1. Introduction pure oxygen instead of air in fuel combustion process, whereby the
concentration of CO2 in flue gas would be approximately 80% (Oxy-fuel
Today, the emission of carbon dioxide has seen a dramatic upward combustion). As a result, CO2 purification would be simpler and more
trend to reach to a staggering 400 ppm in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels convenient. Needing a large amount of oxygen leads to high capital cost,
combustion, agricultural and land-use alterations as well as different which is the major disadvantage of this approach [5,6].
metals, cement and fertilizer productions are the most well-known Among the mentioned technologies, the post-combustion capture
human activities that are responsible to produce and release an annual has attracted many attentions as a result of simple existing retrofitting
30 billion tones CO2 to the atmosphere [1]. This notable value has for available flue gas streams [7,8]. There are various well-known ap
introduced CO2 as the most pollutant greenhouse gaseous with several proaches to remove CO2 from flue gas caused by power stations, for
catastrophic problems such as acid rains and climate change, etc. [2–4]. instance absorption via physical/chemical absorbents, adsorption by
Hence, seeking for an innovative, practical economical and environ solid sorbents and membrane processes [9–16]. Recently, benefiting
mentally friendly procedure to decline the level of this dangerous gas from some physical and chemical absorbents such as monoethanolamine
seems truly crucial. CO2 capture procedures are divided to three (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA), N-methyldiethanolamine (MDEA),
different sub-categories; the first procedure works on the CO2 removal of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP), N-methyl,2 pyrrolidone (NMP)
released gas during fossil fuels consumption (Post-combustion proced cold methanol (Rectisol process), dimethylether of polyethylene glycol
ure). The second procedure has focus on the reaction of fuel with air (Selexol process), propylene carbonate (Fluor solvent process), sulfolane
and/or oxygen with the purpose of CO2 separation along with hydrogen and sulfinol have been the most common methods applied in industrial
production as a fuel to generate energy (Pre-combustion procedure). The applications [14,17–23]. Yet, applying chemical absorbents results in
main drawback of this technology is related to the expensive capital several negative outcomes; for example, chemical absorbents have large
costs of the generating facility. The last procedure is a sort of modifi quantities of waste during the desorption processes because of strong
cation for the first method. Indeed, in this methodology, it is tried to use chemical reactions with CO2 in absorption units. They also need a
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: rahimpor@shirazu.ac.ir (M.R. Rahimpour).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2021.108447
Received 10 February 2021; Received in revised form 29 March 2021; Accepted 26 April 2021
Available online 2 May 2021
0255-2701/© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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