Potassium carbonate solution is a widely used solvent for CO2 removal due to its benefit in energy consumption and other economic concerns like degradation and corrosion problem. In this study, the solubility of CO2 in aqueous solutions of potassium carbonate was measured using pressure-decay method at temperatures of 313.15 K, 323.15 K, and 333.15 K, different pressures (up to 1.2 MPa), and different solution concentrations of 15 %wt., 20 %wt., and 30 %wt. Also, two equations of state were utilized to anticipate CO2 solubility in aqueous solution of potassium carbonate. The model is a combination of chemical equilibrium in the liquid phase and physical equilibrium between the liquid and vapor phases. For vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations, Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR-EOS) was used to present the fugacity coefficient in the vapor phase. The activity coefficient in the liquid phase was presented by Pitzer equation. Also, the values of the primitive interaction coefficients were optimized using the available literature data of the similar system. The results demonstrated that the performance of the thermodynamic modeling procedure was acceptable and the average absolute relative deviation (AARD) between the experimental and the predicted data was less than 2.7%.
Compounds
#
Formula
Name
1
CK2O3
potassium carbonate
2
CO2
carbon dioxide
3
H2O
water
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above).
POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied;
the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.