Development of high performance adsorption carbon capture systems using detailed experimentally-validated CFD models

The recent United Nation Climate Summit 2019 in New York have again warned of severe environmental consequences if drastic measures are not taken to limit CO2 emissions. Carbon capture and sequestration technology is highly needed to achieve the desired goals by 2050. Post carbon capture using adsorption separation is among the most economical and readily implementable solutions to existing large CO2 emitting plants, with minimum overhead. This research will focus on enhancing the CO2 adsorptive capacity of such systems through increasing the heat transfer from these systems. This will be done through the use of detailed computational modeling of the complicated adsorption process in these systems. A User-defined Function (UDF) code, will be developed and integrated with available commercial CFD codes to carry out the detailed simulations in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) configurations. Different adsorbent will be simulated including the commercial one such as 13X zeolites and novel ones such as MOF5 and MOF177. The improvement of such systems will make these systems more attractive for carbon capture purposes and hence having a positive impact on our environment.