NOx Removal from Air through Super Hydrophobic Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors
Corresponding email: sutrasno@che.ui.ac.id
Published at : 24 May 2019
Volume : IJtech
Vol 10, No 3 (2019)
DOI : https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v10i3.2907
Kartohardjono, S., Saksono, N., Supramono, D., Prawati, P., 2019. NOx Removal from Air through Super Hydrophobic Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors. International Journal of Technology. Volume 10(3), pp. 472-480
| Sutrasno Kartohardjono | Process Intensification Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia |
| Nelson Saksono | Process Intensification Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia |
| Dijan Supramono | Thermodynamic, Energy and Environmental Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia |
| Popphy Prawati | Process Intensification Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia |
NOx, a generic term for
nitrogen oxides, is an air pollutant that can causes damage to the ozone layer,
and produces greenhouse effects, acid rain and photochemical smog. It is mainly
produced by diesel engine exhaust due to the reaction between nitrogen and oxygen,
especially at elevated temperatures. NOx needs to be reduced from flue gas in
order to fulfil environment regulations due to its hazardous nature. This study
aims to remove NOx from air through absorption using a mixture of H2O2
and HNO3 solutions as an absorbent in the membrane contactors. In
the experiment, the feed gas and the absorbent were flowed in the shell side
and the lumen fibers, respectively. The flow rates of absorbent and feed gas,
as well as the fiber number the membrane contactor, greatly influence the
efficiency of NOx removal, mass transfer coefficients and fluxes. The highest
values of NOx removal efficiency, mass transfer coefficient and flux achieved
in the study were 47%, 8.7×10-5 cm.sec-1, and 3.1×10-5
mmole.cm-2.sec-1, respectively.
Air pollutant; Flux; Mass transfer coefficient; Membrane contactors; Nitrogen oxides
Nitrogen oxides (NOx), besides CO2, are key pollutants in the flue gas emitted from the fossil fuel combustion process, and are very hazardous, having harmful effects on the human and global environment, such as damage to the ozone layer, greenhouse effects, formation of acid rain and photochemical smog (Wang et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2014; Bueno-López et al., 2016; Ahmad et al., 2017; Yu et al., 2017; Cheng et al., 2018; Nimcharoen et al., 2018). Diesel engines are among the main contributors of NOx emissions into the atmosphere (Zhu et al., 2008; Choi & Lee, 2014; Cheng et al., 2018). Demand for diesel-engined vehicles is steadily growing due to an increase in their fuel consumption efficiency of 20-30% over gasoline vehicles (Li et al., 2009; Choi & Lee, 2014). However, around 80% of the NOx emitted is from such vehicles (Zouzelka & Rathousky, 2017). The formation of NOx in a diesel engine is due to the presence of a mixture
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are very
hazardous pollutants and can have negative effects on human health and the
global environment. Several methods have been applied for NOx removal; however,
the temperature applied in these is high. The removal of NOx from air by
absorption using a mixture of H2O2 and HNO3
solutions through hollow fiber membrane contactors at room temperature has been
performed in this study. The amount of NOx absorbed, the flux and the overall mass transfer coefficient were enhanced by an increase in the absorbent as well as the
feed gas flow rates, due to
increased turbulence in the absorbent and gas boundary layers, respectively. The absorption
efficiency of NOx increases in line with the absorbent flow rate, but decreases
with the feed gas flow rate. An increase in the
number of fibers in the membrane contactor will have an incremental effect on
the amount of NOx absorbed and removal
efficiency, but will have a decreasing effect on the flux and the overall mass
transfer coefficient. The highest values
of NOx removal efficiency, mass transfer coefficient and flux achieved in the
study were 47%, 8.7×10-5 cm.sec-1, and 3.1×10-5
mmole.cm-2.sec-1, respectively. It is expected that the proposed
method could be used as an alternative technique for reducing NOx content in
exhaust gas from burning fossil fuels.
The authors acknowledge the
financial support from the PDUPT Grant through Contract No.
422/UN2.R3.1/HKP05.00/2018 and is partially supported by the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Sustainable Higher
Education Research Alliance (SHERA) Program for Universitas Indonesia’s
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