Solubility and thermodynamic modeling of hydrogen sulfide in aqueous (diisopropanolamine+2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol + piperazine) solution at high pressure

Natural gas as a clean source of energy contains several contaminates such as CO2 and H2S that is treated through a natural gas purification unit in gas industry. Moreover, for design and construction of gas contactor equipment, it is necessary to obtain experimental values of solubility for H2S and CO2 in aqueous amine/alkanolamines. In this work, the solubility of H2S in the blended aqueous diisopropanolamine (DIPA), 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP) and piperazine (Pz) are measured using a static high pressure apparatus through volumetric method. The values are measured at fixed 45 mass per cent of total amine so that the solubility of H2S in the present system is investigated under isothermal conditions at T = (313.15, 328.15 and 343.15) K and in the pressure range of (0.1 to 2.1) MPa. The experimental results are presented as the partial pressure of H2S against acid gas loading (moles H2S per total moles of amine). Also for modeling the solubility of H2S in the blended amine/alkanolamines, the Electrolyte-NRTL activity coefficient function is applied to the correlation and prediction of the partial pressure of H2S versus the acid gas loading. Considering the present results at the given conditions, it is observed that in the low gas loading region, the effect of enhancing Pz on the solubility of H2S is very low, but at high gas loading the absorption of H2S is intensified by enhancing mass fraction of Pz in alkanolamine. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.