The advanced method for CO2capture is currently one of the most important environmental issues in worldwide and it is therefore necessary to have available technologies, which minimize the discharge of CO2 including Carbon-14 from nuclear facilities into the atmosphere. A key aspect of this work is to provide the technically principal data required to improve a CO2 removal system for the utilization of regenerative sorbent use, specifically include suggestions regarding its modified column design (parallel dual-bed assembly), stop-restart operation and the economic feasibility of sorbent use. The removal performance of soda lime and the effects of relative humidity (RH) and packing bed-depth (BD) on CO2 removal were investigated. In a single-bed, it revealed that the utilization of soda lime for CO2 removal at line velocity of 13 cm/sec and bed depth of 12 cm increased with the increased relative humidity up to 85%. However, in the parallel dual-bed assembly applied with the stop-restart operation, a maximum utilization rate of soda lime for CO2 removal was obtained even at 55% of RH and 8 cm of BD, specifically the utilization rate of soda lime by using this CO2 removal assembly was about two-fold superior to that in a single-bed.

• Il-Hoon Cho(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
• Guen-Il Park(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
• Joon-Hyung Kim(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
• Taek-Sung Hwang(Chungnam National University)
• Mi-Kyoung Lee(Chungnam National University)