The cement industries alone emit 5% of the world's total green house gases. In Ethiopia, the current CO 2 emission from this sector is about five fold of the countries overall CO 2 emission in 2002. Mugher cement factory (MCF), a case study plant in this paper, alone emits 463,844 tons of CO 2 /year on average based on emission test and mass balance performed. Yet it accounts for less than 3% of the current CO 2 emission from this particular industry in the country. Of those technical approaches, separation of CO 2 before it joins the immediate atmosphere is getting wide spread interest. In relation to this, experiment on absorption of CO 2 is conducted to determine the effect of flow rate of the gas sample, concentration of the sodium hydroxide, flow rate of solvent and temperature of absorbent on absorption of CO 2 using the "Armfield" gas absorption column followed by the titrimetric analysis. Except temperature of solvent, all study variables showed strong relation with the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed (with a P-value < 0.05). Uniquely, this study has evaluated the potential for sodium bicarbonate production from the CO 2 absorbed using gravimetric analysis. It is also possible to recover over 28% crystal sodium bicarbonate.
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