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State-of-the-art adsorption and membrane separation processes for carbon dioxide production from carbon dioxide emitting industries

Journal Article · · Separation Science and Technology
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  1. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering

With the growing concern about global warming placing greater demands on improving energy efficiency and reducing CO{sub 2} emissions, the need for improving the energy intensive, separation processes involving CO{sub 2} is well recognized. The US Department of Energy estimates that the separation of CO{sub 2} represents 75% of the cost associated with its separation, storage, transport, and sequestration operations. Hence, energy efficient, CO{sub 2} separation technologies with improved economics are needed for industrial processing and for future options to capture and concentrate CO{sub 2} for reuse or sequestration. The overall goal of this review is to foster the development of new adsorption and membrane technologies to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce CO{sub 2} emissions. This study focuses on the power, petrochemical, and other CO{sub 2} emitting industries, and provides a detailed review of the current commercial CO{sub 2} separation technologies, i.e., absorption, adsorption, membrane, and cryogenic, an overview of the emerging adsorption and membrane technologies for CO{sub 2} separation, and both near and long term recommendations for future research on adsorption and membrane technologies. Flow sheets of the principal CO{sub 2} producing processes are provided for guidance and new conceptual flow sheets with ideas on the placement of CO{sub 2} separations technologies have also been devised.

OSTI ID:
21187157
Journal Information:
Separation Science and Technology, Journal Name: Separation Science and Technology Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 44; ISSN 0149-6395; ISSN SSTEDS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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