VLE data of€02 and Monoethanolamine (MEA)

A majorapplication of technology is the removal of CO2 from natural gas or synthesis gasby
absorption in solutions of amines. The accurate knowledge of VLE for each of pure
components and multicomponent mixtures is required for the design purpose of separation
process. Since modeling VLE data is mostly only justified for ideal case, experimental
method will be used to obtain VLE data for this study.
Monoethanolamine (MEA) is chosen as the amine for this study due to its manyadvantages:
higher capacity, lower heat or reaction and low corrosion problems. The physical properties
and hazards ofthe chemicals involved are taken into consideration.
The process flow on how the experiments will be done has been identified, along with the
problems and constraints expected. Simulation on HYSYS was carried out to provide a
general idea of the experiment. For the initial test run done, more research and discussions
need to be done to overcome the problems faced.