partial pressure in the permeate side. The CO
2
des-
orbed rate also increases at high vacuum level. However, low vacuum
pressures increase the additional work for both the vacuum pump and
compressor unit operation (discussed in section 3.3). Similar to the trend
in the regeneration temperature influence, only [emim][Ac] was able to
reach the process efficiency constraint (equal or higher than 90%)
operating with one HFMC (module characteristics given in
Table 2
).
Moreover, the pressure applied by the vacuum pump in the permeate
side was recommended to be greater than 0.035 bar, in order to avoid
wetting phenomena.
Additionally, the CO
2
-rich IL mole-flow has a negative effect on the
CO
2
desorption efficiency as shown
Fig. 7
a. The reason of this poor
performances at high rich solution mole-flow, could be the decrease of
the residence time through the HFMC, which decrease the capacity of
the CO
2
to be desorbed from the CO
2
-rich IL. However, the increase of
the rich solution mole-flow leads to a higher CO
2
regeneration flux as
shown in
Fig. 7
b. The optimal liquid flow-rates should then be estimated
by searching a trade-off between both, absorption and desorption pro-
cess performances, taking into account: (i) the drawbacks of high liquid
flow-rate such as the thermodynamic limitation of ILs and the risk of
membrane wetting due to the increase of the liquid pressure, and (ii) the
higher equipment size required associated to lower flow-rate, which
increases the total capital cost of the overall process.
Being analyzed the operating conditions, temperature, vacuum
pressure and liquid flow-rate, two more considerations that affect to the
contactor could be taken into account to achieve the efficiency
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