In this present work, a novel approach has been proposed by which a solvent absorption and membrane desorption methods can significantly reduce the carbon dioxide (CO) emission and energy consumption. In this method, the CO capture processing is based on the combination of membrane and physical solvent. Here, dimethyl carbonate and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-SiO nanocomposite were used as the physical solvent and desorption membrane, respectively. However, the main focus of this research was on the CO desorption behavior of PDMS-SiO hybrid membrane. To do so, the influence of the operating conditions and membrane properties on the pervaporation process to capture CO have been investigated. The PDMS-SiO hybrid membrane containing 10 wt % SiO was the most effective membrane. Results revealed that increase in CO concentration from 1.5 to 3 wt % led to decrease in the selectivity from 94 to 47 and increase in flux from 1.7 to 5.38 (kg/m·h). In addition, an increase in temperature increased the flux and reached the highest level (8.17 kg/m·h) at 40 °C. However, the selectivity decreased to 36.13. It was found that the addition of SiO nanoparticles to the PDMS membrane not only enhanced the membrane performance but also decreased the energy consumption about 75% compared with gas stripping method and mass transfer about 49% compared with pure PDMS membrane. Finally, these results illustrated that such a novel technique used for pervaporation separation process is a green and promising alternative to separate CO from the physical solvent.
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