CHAPTER EIGHT CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

8.1 Summary of thesis study

This research focused on developing a method for simultaneous inhibition of carbon steel (1020) corrosion and oxidative MEA degradation in the carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process from simulated post-combustion coal-fired flue gas by absorption with a chemical solvent (monoethanolamine; MEA) with the help of an ultimate inhibitor. The work was divided into three main parts: the study of the effect of flue gas composition on carbon steel (1020) corrosion, the study of the effect of a flue gas composition on oxidative MEA degradation, and studies on inhibition of the two processes. The studies of the effect of flue gas composition on both carbon steel (1020) corrosion and oxidative MEA degradation were done by varying additives under the base-case conditions, in which the additives represented different types of components typically present in a flue gas. Thus, two different chloride compounds (sodium chloride; NaCl and ferrous chloride; FeCl2) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) were selected to represent different sources of chlorides in a flue gas. Meanwhile, sulphurous acid (H2SO3), sulphuric acid (H2SO4), and nitric acid (HNO3) were selected to represent the aqueous solutions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), sulphur trioxide (SO3), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), respectively. Moreover, sodium bisulfite (NaHSO3), sodium sulfite (Na2SO3), sodium sulphate (Na2SO4), and ferrous sulphate heptahydrate (FeSO47H2O) were also introduced in the study of carbon steel corrosion. Then, the influences of each component on both carbon steel corrosion and oxidative

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