- Title
- Chemical characterization of MEA degradation in PCC pilot plants operating in Australia
- Creator
- Cruickshank, Alicia; Verheyen, Vincent; Adeloju, Samuel; Meuleman, Erik; Chaffee, Alan; Cottrell, Aaron; Feron, Paul
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70317
- Identifier
- vital:6609
- Identifier
- ISSN:1876-6102
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013.05.180
- Abstract
- An important step towards commercial scale post-combustion CO2 capture from coal-fired power stations is understanding solvent degradation. Laboratory scale trials have identified three main solvent degradation pathways for 30% MEA: oxidative degradation, carbamate polymerization and formation of heat stable salts. This paper probes the semi-volatile organic compounds produced from a single batch of 30% MEA which was used to capture CO2 from a black coal-fired power station (Tarong, Queensland, Australia) for approximately 700 hours, followed by 500 hours at the brown coal-fired power station (Loy Yang, Victoria, Australia). Comparisons are made between the compounds identified in this aged solvent system with MEA degradation reactions described in literature. Most of semi-volatile compounds tentatively identified by GC/MS have previously been reported in laboratory scale degradation trials. Our preliminary results show low levels of degradation products were present in samples after its use in the pilot plant at Tarong (black coal) and consequent 13 months storage, but much higher concentrations were later found in the same solvent during its at use in the pilot plant at Loy Yang Power (brown coal). Further work includes identifying the cause of poor GC/MS repeatability and investigating the relative rates of reactions described in literature. The impact of inorganic anions and dissolved metals on MEA degradation will also be explored.
- Relation
- Energy Procedia Vol. 37, no. (2013), p. 877-882
- Rights
- Copyright Elsevier
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Monoethanolamine; Degradation; Black coal; Brown coal; Post-combustion CO2 capture; 01 Mathematical Sciences; 06 Biological Sciences; 08 Information and Computing Sciences
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