A prospective approach to separate industrial carbon dioxide and flue gases

ABSTRACT As the industrial revolution progresses, carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) are major concerns because they are the main contributors to greenhouse gases. The concentration of these harmful gases in the industry is very high, which is emitted by workers and industrial materials. Therefore, it is required to maintain a safe percentage of CO2, SO2, and other harmful gases in the air of industry and ensure safety from fire accidents. This paper presents a compressor driven system that could capture harmful gases including CO2 and SO2 from the polluted air of different industries and households. The captured and separated CO2 works as a fire extinguishing agent to safeguard fire accidents for large industries and households. Thus, this system ensures a protected working place and a healthy atmosphere for industrial workers. Besides, this system can be applied in place of the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system in small industries and for a four-wheeler, internal combustion engine, as this system could capture and separate the harmful carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. This paper also presents a developed model of different polymeric membranes to simulate the separation of carbon dioxide after the post-combustion process. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been performed by COMSOL 5.5 to observe the carbon dioxide separation by polymeric membranes like polycarbonate (0.07 mol/m3) and polytetrafluoroethylene (0.1 mol/m3) polymeric membranes for specific pore sizes which is comparable to experimental data (0.05 mol/m3).