Abstract
With the catalytic induction of EG, anhydrous DMEA shows
CO2 absorption performance via chemical binding and
physical storage under normal pressure. Among the absorbents, pure DMEA
can hardly absorb CO2 directly but when the zwitterionic
alkylcarbonates are formed between CO2 and DMEA-EG which
can be characterized by 13C NMR and FTIR, the
absorption rate of CO2 will be improved at this time. An
increasing the CO2 loading as the mass fraction of EG in
DMEA-EG, 90wt.% EG captures up to 0.72 mol/mol. The amount of
chemically bound and physically stored is directly dependent on
temperature, within the range of 293 to 323K, an absorption-regeneration
cycle can be formed in a closed vessel because of the zwitterion
DMEA-EG-CO2 is unstable at the higher temperature. In
other words, DMEA-EG-CO2 can be easily regenerated upon
appropriate depressurization or heating, corresponding thermodynamic
calculations prove that the regenerative energy of
DMEA-EG-CO2 is 25.49kJ/mol.