CFD Study of the Numbering up of Membrane Microreactors for CO2 Capture

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the major atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG). The continuous increase CO2 concentration and its long lifetime may cause long-term negative effects on climate. It important to develop technologies capture minimize those emissions into atmosphere. objective this work design study theoretically experimentally a numbering-up/scale-out membrane microreactor in order be used as system. main aim obtain an even flow distribution at each plate reactor. Nearly uniform was achieved layer numbering-up according carried-out CFD models. maximum difference between average velocities less than 6% for both gas liquid flows. To better microreactor, radius inlet/outlet tube optimized. Results from experimental simulations do not match, slightly maldistribution system due phase breakthrough imperfections fabrication plates. Moreover, comparing single channel scale-out latter showed poorer performance removal while expecting reactors have similar performance. By installing inserts with different widths, results were identical original case.