Determination of Dew Point Conditions for CO2 with Impurities Using Microfluidics
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- 作者：Wen Song ; Hossein Fadaei ; David Sinton
- 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：March 18, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：48
- 期：6
- 页码：3567-3574
- 全文大小：522K
- 年卷期：v.48,no.6(March 18, 2014)
- ISSN：1520-5851
文摘
Impurities can greatly modify the phase behavior of carbon dioxide (CO2), with significant implications on the safety and cost of transport in pipelines. In this paper we demonstrate a microfluidic approach to measure the dew point of such mixtures, specifically the point at which water in supercritical CO2 mixtures condenses to a liquid state. The method enables direct visualization of dew formation ( 1鈥? 渭m diameter droplets) at industrially relevant concentrations, pressures, and temperatures. Dew point measurements for the well-studied case of pure CO2-water agreed well with previous theoretical and experimental data over the range of pressure (up to 13.17 MPa), temperature (up to 50 掳C), and water content (down to 0.00229 mol fraction) studied. The microfluidic approach showed a nearly 3-fold reduction in error as compared to previous methods. When applied to a mixture with nitrogen (2.5%) and oxygen (5.8%) impurities鈥攖ypical of flue gas from natural gas oxy-fuel combustion processes鈥攖he measured dew point pressure increased on average 17.55 卤 5.4%, indicating a more stringent minimum pressure for pipeline transport. In addition to increased precision, the microfluidic method offers a direct measurement of dew formation, requires very small volumes (10 渭L), and is applicable to ultralow water contents (<0.005 mol fractions), circumventing the limits of previous methods.