Novel modified Kent-Eisenberg model and equilibrium CO2 solubility in
aqueous 2-[2-(dimethylamino)ethoxy]ethanol
Abstract
The equilibrium CO2 solubility of 2-[2-(dimethylamino)ethoxy]ethanol
(DMAEE) was investigated at the temperature range of 298.15-323.15 K
with the CO2 partial pressure from 5.0 to 60 kPa. A novel modified
Kent-Eisenberg model was proposed to predict the CO2 solubility of DMAEE
with the absolute average deviation (ADD) of 3.0% in this work, and
this model provides more accurate prediction than the reported
Kent-Eisenberg, Austgen, Hu-Chakma, and Li-Shen model. Then four
reported tertiary amines were used to validate the universality of the
proposed model and the obtained results indicate that the developed
model can be applied to the mentioned amines with an acceptable AADs
(4.80, 5.47, 8.56, and 3.65 %). In addition, the heat of CO2 absorption
and the dissociation constant (pKa) also were systematically evaluated
and compared with other reported amines, all obtained results indicates
that the DMAEE has a potential to be an alternative absorbent for
post-combustion CO2 capture.