“…The selective absorption characteristics of MDEA have been widely reported in the literature (Barth et al, 1981;Bullin and Polasek, 1982;Cornelissen, 1980;Danckwerts, 1979;Savage and Funk, 1981;Daviet et al, 1984;Ammons and Sitton, 1981;MacKenzie et al, 1987;Bullin et al, 1984). MDEA's selective absorption ability is due to its relatively slow reaction rate with CO 2 .…”