Reliable data for the solubility
of carbon dioxide in aqueous solutions
of monoethanolamine are required for the design and evaluation of
postcombustion carbon capture processes. As published experimental
data for the solubility of carbon dioxide in aqueous solutions of
monoethanolamine show considerable scatter, the solubility of carbon
dioxide in aqueous solutions containing (15 and 30) mass percent of
monoethanolamine; that is, (2.9 and 7.0) mol·(kg H2O)−1 respectively, was measured at molar ratios
of carbon dioxide to monoethanolamine in the liquid solution from
0.1 to 1.3 at (313, 353 and 393) K. An apparatus based on headspace
gas chromatography (on the synthetic gas solubility method) was used
for the experiments at low (high) gas loadings, that is, at partial
pressures of carbon dioxide from (1 to 80) kPa (from (0.4 to 8.6)
MPa). The new experimental results are compared to literature data
and used to parametrize a physicochemical thermodynamic model based
on the extended Pitzer equation for the Gibbs excess energy of the
liquid mixture. Furthermore, model predictions for the ion speciation
in the liquid phase are compared to literature data from NMR spectroscopy.