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United Arab Emirates University

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2009

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Carbon Dioxide Capture From Flue Gases, Mohamed Rashid Al Rashid Jan 2009

Carbon Dioxide Capture From Flue Gases, Mohamed Rashid Al Rashid

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Global warming and climate change are believed to be caused by the greenhouse effect. CO2 has been regarded as the main contributor to global climate change which directly results in serious environmental problems. Half of the anthropogenic CO2 emission sources are emitted from the combustion of fossil fuels in industries and power plants worldwide. The absorption behavior of Carbon dioxide from flue gases can be studied using conventional absorber and polymeric hollow fiber membrane contractors. An industrial absorber data was compared with simulated data using hollow fiber membrane contractor using the gPROMs software package. In this analysis, with …