Mass Transfer Phenomena for Novel Carbon Dioxide Adsorbents in Biocompatible Media

Improvement in carbon capture percentage was calculated as most effective in 10 mg/L-MEA BG-11 media, with improvement in carbon capture of 1.012% over the control. In studying the effect of agitation at 150 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) with a magnetic stir bar, it was found that mass transfer actually decreased. Future investigations are warranted to fully characterize the effect of different alkanolamine types, concentrations, and mixing regimens on mass transfer of CO2. In this thesis, emphasis was placed on experimental setup to allow for a discussion of the unexpected characteristics of the findings of the mass transfer experiments. Understanding the effect of experimental setup on mass transfer will be important in designing more effective methods of CO2 absorption for improving growth of cyanobacteria.