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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
May. 08, 2007
Jennifer Lynn Molaison, Marietta, GA (US);
Alan Smithies, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jennifer Lynn Molaison, Marietta, GA (US);
Alan Smithies, Overland Park, KS (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for processing flue-gas, in an exemplary embodiment, includes providing an absorber unit having a membrane contactor, channeling a combustion flue gas along a first surface of the membrane contactor, and channeling an ammonia-based liquid reagent along a second opposing surface of the membrane contactor. The method also includes partially separating the ammonia-based liquid from the flue gas such that the ammonia-based liquid and the flue gas contact at gas-liquid interface areas, defined by a plurality of pores of the membrane contactor, to separate COfrom the flue gas by a chemical absorption of COwithin the ammonia-based liquid to produce a CO-rich ammonia-based liquid.