Absorption-Desorption Characteristics of the Synthesized Deep Eutectic Solvents for Carbon Dioxide Capture

Abstract

The development of an environmentally friendly CO2 absorbent with significant energy utilization which can be an alternative to CO2 capture by an ethanolamine solution is presently an obligatory issue. In this work, binary and ternary deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were prepared according to their CO2 absorption/desorption performances. A series of DESs comprise different hydrogen bonding donor (HBD)- acceptor (HBA) pairs as CO2 capturing solvents; HBAs include choline chloride (ChCl) and tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB), and selected amines are represented as HBDs and include monoethanolamine (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA), and triethanolamine (TEA). Binary DESs synthesized of ChCl/MEA, ChCl/DEA, ChCl/TEA, TBAB/MEA, TBAB/DEA, and TBAB/TEA in a CO2 absorption cell at a mole ratio of 1:4. While selected amidines were represented as super-based (SB) and included 1,5-Diazabicyclo [4.3.0] non-5-ene (DBN) and 1,8-Diazabicyclo [5.4.0] undec-7-ene (DBU). The ternary DESs were prepared by adding DBN or DBU to the binary DESs system in a (1:4:3) molar ratio. CO2 absorption experiments were attained at atmospheric pressure and a temperature of 30 °C using 15 vol.% CO2 with 85 vol.% N2. On the other hand, the regeneration process for DESs was conducted at 90 oC. Binary DES synthesized from ChCl/MEA gives a higher absorption rate of CO2 of 0.0177 mole/kg. min, CO2 absorption loading of 2.9092 mole CO2/kg solvent, cyclic loading of 2.0001 mole CO2/kg solvent, and a regeneration efficiency of 68.75%. The synthesis DESs showed a better performance compare with a common Ionic liquids.