Abstract

Diamines have shown promise as CO2 capture solvents, yet very little is known about their pathway for thermal degradation. In this study, diamine thermal degradation was quantitatively monitored in lab-scale experiments on four aqueous diamine solvents; ethylenediamine (EDA) 1,2-propanediamine (1,2-DAP), 1,3-diaminopropane (1,3-DAP) and N-methyl-1,2-ethanediamine (NMEDA), to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their degradation pathway(s). The major degradation products were identified by high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS). Degradation pathways were proposed showing that the primary thermal degradation route for this class of amine are through carbamate formation followed by intermolecular cyclization to form an imidazolidinone or nucleophilic attack by a free amine to form a diamine urea.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Energy Procedia, v. 114, p. 2030-2038.

© 2017 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1337

Funding Information

The authors acknowledge the Carbon Management Research Group (CMRG) members, including Duke Energy, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Kentucky Department of Energy Development and Independence (KYDEDI), and Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities (KU) for their financial support.

Share

COinS