Effect of Viscosity of a Deep Eutectic Solvent on CO2 Capture Performance in an Energy-Efficient Membrane Contactor-Based Process

Coin, Zachary; Dangwal, Shailesh; Irwin, Mary Hannah; Knight, Thomas; Bhave, Ramesh; Rother, Gernot; Sacci, Robert; Arifuzzaman, Md; Bocharova, Vera; Ivanov, Ilia; Sholl, David S.; Islam, Syed Z.

doi:10.1021/acsomega.4c06816

Effect of Viscosity of a Deep Eutectic Solvent on CO₂ Capture Performance in an Energy-Efficient Membrane Contactor-Based Process

Journal Article · Mon Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2025 · ACS Omega

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c06816· OSTI ID:2496760

Coin, Zachary ^[1]; ^[1]; Irwin, Mary Hannah ^[2]; Knight, Thomas ^[3]; ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; Arifuzzaman, Md ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[4]; ^[5]; ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Innovation Institute; Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Greenhouse gas contributions to climate change have driven intense interest in the separation of CO₂ from wet flue gas streams. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are an emerging class of highly selective CO₂ absorbents. A prototypical DES, reline, is a mixture of choline chloride and urea. Reline is a thermally stable, nontoxic, and biodegradable solvent with negligible volatility and is inexpensive. We demonstrate a scalable and energy-efficient hollow fiber membrane contactor (HFMC)-based process using a green solvent for CO₂ capture. This process uses reline in HFMC to provide close interfacial interactions and contact between DES and CO₂. This approach overcomes the disadvantages associated with direct absorption in DES and could potentially be applied to a variety of solvent-based CO₂ capture methods. Commercial, low-cost polymer hollow fiber membranes were evaluated for the capture of CO₂ with reline. From a mixed gas containing N₂ and CO₂, the DES-based HFMC separated CO₂ with a purity of 97 mol %. The effect of the viscosity of reline on the CO₂ capture performance was investigated by adding water to the reline. The addition of water to reline significantly reduced its viscosity, which led to a permeate flux of 170 mmol/(m²·h) at 35 °C, 4 bar, and 60 wt % water in solvent, which was approximately 8 times higher than that of the pure reline in the membrane contactor system. In situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) revealed that reline absorbs CO₂ by physical absorption without forming new chemical compounds and that CO₂ separation by reline occurs via the pressure swing mechanism. This research provides fundamental insights about green physical solvent-based separation processes and a pathway toward industrial deployment.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2496760

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2538430

Journal Information:: ACS Omega, Journal Name: ACS Omega Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 10; ISSN 2470-1343

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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