YTU Department of

FACULTY OF CHEMICAL Chemical

AND METALLURGICAL Engineering
ENGINEERING

Chemical Engineering Laboratory I

Professor in Charge of the Experiment: Assoc. Prof. Emel AKYOL
Research Assistant in Charge of the Experiment: Res. Assist. Selen Ezgi ÇELİK

THE NAME OF THE EXPERIMENT:

EXPERIMENT 1: GAS ABSORPSTION

Group 6E

Number Name, Surname

1805B020 Raif Öztürk

1805B603 Sare Özdemir

18051801 İbrahim Uruç Tarım

1805B021 Merve Mammacıoğlu

1805B905 Areg Al-Dhubhani

1805B013 Ali Canberk Coşkun

1805B070 Ece Melisa İşler

1805B049 Dilay Al Jamali

1805B068 İrem Gökçe Uslu

1805B916 Bayan Hakki

Contents
Contents ...................................................................................................................................... 2
1. Name of the experiment: ..................................................................................................... 3
2. Purpose of the Experiment .................................................................................................. 3
3. Theoretical Background ...................................................................................................... 3
4. Calculations......................................................................................................................... 4
5. Comments ........................................................................................................................... 5
6. References ........................................................................................................................... 5
 1. Name of the experiment:
Gas Absorption

2. Purpose of the Experiment

Calculating the amount of CO2 that absorbed in water. And determining the pressure drop.

3. Theoretical Background
Gas absorption is a procedure of a chemical unit that separates gases by scrubbing a gas
mixture with an appropriate solvent. One or all the gas mixture's components degrade or are
dissolved in the solvent and may hence be separated from the mixture for the aim of providing
a solution in the liquid. Absorption processes are performed by the diffusion rules by the gas-
liquid equations and absorption rate. Besides this, the process that the opposite of absorption
is desorption, and it means stripping; through the liquid-vapor interface, one component of a
liquid streams goes with using mass transfer into a vapor phase. There are two types of
absorption processes which are ‘Physical Absorption that refers to non-reactive processes and
based on the properties physically like: solubility, pressure, temperature...and for Chemical
Absorption becomes as the atoms or molecules absorbed chemical reaction is occurred.’
There are two types of columns which are packed and tray columns. Packed column offers a
lower pressure drop, better for corrosive liquids and better at handling foaming systems. Tray
columns are better at handling solids or other sources of fouling and better at handling lower
liquid rates and it offers better predictability than packed towers. The packing materials inside
an absorption column should have low density, high surface area/volume ratio, high cross-
sectional area and it should be affordable and durable for more efficient absorption. Types of
gas, types of solvent, and packing materials inside the column, solubility of the absorbed gas
effects the gas absorption.
 4. Calculations
The amount of sample drawn into the Hempel apparatus: 40 ml.
Inlet air 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
flow
(l/min)
Pressure 9 12 14 19 20 27 30 31
value (mm
H2O)
Table 4.1

Pressure Drop Graph

1,6
y = 0,6298x + 0,2775
1,4

1,2
Log Pressure (mm H2O)

0,8

0,6

0,4

0,2

0
0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1 1,2 1,4 1,6 1,8 2
Log Inlet Air Flow (l/min)

Figure 4.1 Logarithmic Pressure Drop Graph Against Logarithmic Inlet Air Flow
Rise observed in Hempel apparatus: 12 ml.

Fa = (F2+F3) *yi – (F2+F3-Fa) *y0

yi = F3/(F2+F3)
Fa = F3 - (F2+F3-Fa) *y0
F3 = 15 l/min
F2 = 30 l/min
y0 = 12ml/40ml
Fa= 15 l/min – (30 l/min + 15 l/min – Fa) *(12ml/40ml)
Fa = 15 l/min – (13.5 – 0.3Fa)
0.7Fa = 1.5 l/min
Fa = 2.142 l/min

Ga= Fa/22.42 *(column pressure mm HG/760) * (273 / column temperature °C + 273)

Our pressure = 14mm H2O * (73.556 mm HG / 1000mm H2O) = 1.03 mm Hg
Ga= 2.142 / 22.42 * (1.03mm Hg / 760) * (273 / 273+21) = 1.20*10^-4 mol/min
Ga= 1.20*10^-4 mol/min* 1min/60s = 2*10^-6 mol/s
 5. Comments
We observed the pressure drop with the inlet air flow rate. After that, we plotted a log-log
graph to see relation between inlet air flow rate and the pressure drop.
We calculated the amount of absorbed CO2. This amount can be change with the increase or
decrease of the surface area. If we want big amounts of absorption, we have to increase the
surface area.
After the calculations, we realize if observed rise in Hempel apparatus increases, the
absorbed CO2 increases too.

6. References
• Erin Hansuld, Lauren Briens, Cedric Briens, Acoustic detection of flooding in
absorption columns and trickle beds, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process
Intensification, 10.1016/j.cep.2007.02.006, 47, 5, (871-878), (2008). accessed 5 April
2021,
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• YTU Department of Chemical Engineering (2020). KMM3522 Chemical Engineering
Laboratory I Experiments