Application of Polymeric Membrane in CO2 Capture from Post Combustion英文文献资料.docVIP

Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, 2012, 2, 336-341 /10.4236/aces.2012.23039 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/aces) Application of Polymeric Membrane in CO2 Capture from Post Combustion Shuangzhen Wang , Xiaochun Han * University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Email: wangshuangzhen@ * Received April 27, 2012; revised May 28, 2012; accepted June 8, 2012 ABSTRACT CO2 capture from post combustion does not need significant alteration of the current power generation facilities and is therefore of more interests to the research and industrial circles. Polymeric membrane separations, which are based mainly on physical phenomena, are easy for operation and to scale up. The details and future research trends are cov- ered in this most updated review, which serve as an excellent technique reference for the research circle and technology evaluation for the related industrial circle. Keywords: Polymeric Membrane; CO2 Capture; Hollow Fiber Membrane; Selectivity; Membrane Wetting 1. Introduction gas processing) [4]. Therefore, the 30-year’s commercial success strongly suggests polymer membrane’s potential for CO2 capture from flue gas [5-7]. Since the industrial revolution took place in the middle 18th century, 321 billion tons of CO2 has been released to the atmosphere and half of the CO2 emission has taken place in the recent 30 years (1971 to 2002) [1,2]. There- fore, the increasingly intensive energy requirement, which comes mainly from the fossil fuel combustion, accounts for the significant atmospheric CO2 increase and thus potentially the global climate change concerns. While renewable energy will reduce the CO2 emission in the long term, by switching the energy resource from the current fossil fuel based toward to emerging solar, biomass, wind and tides, CO2 capture and sequestration from the large stationary coal/natural fired power plants, cement plants, oil re