Imperial College London

Prof Claire S. Adjiman FREng

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Chemical Engineering
 
 
 
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608Roderic Hill BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Papadopoulos:2016:10.1039/c6me00049e,
author = {Papadopoulos, AI and Badr, S and Chremos, A and Forte, E and Zarogiannis, T and Seferlis, P and Papadokonstantakis, S and Galindo, A and Jackson, G and Adjiman, CS},
doi = {10.1039/c6me00049e},
journal = {Molecular Systems Design & Engineering},
pages = {313--334},
title = {Computer-aided molecular design and selection of CO2 capture solvents based on thermodynamics, reactivity and sustainability},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6me00049e},
volume = {1},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - The identification of improved carbon dioxide (CO2) capture solvents remains a challenge due to the vast number of potentially-suitable molecules. We propose an optimization-based computer-aided molecular design (CAMD) method to identify and select, from hundreds of thousands of possibilities, a few solvents of optimum performance for CO2 chemisorption processes, as measured by a comprehensive set of criteria. The first stage of the approach involves a fast screening stage where solvent structures are evaluated based on the simultaneous consideration of important pure component properties reflecting thermodynamic, kinetic, and sustainability behaviour. The impact of model uncertainty is considered through a systematic method that employs multiple models for the prediction of performance indices. In the second stage, high-performance solvents are further selected and evaluated using a more detailed thermodynamic model, i.e. the group-contribution statistical associating fluid theory for square well potentials (SAFT-γ SW), to predict accurately the highly non-ideal chemical and phase equilibrium of the solvent–water–CO2 mixtures. The proposed CAMD method is applied to the design of novel molecular structures and to the screening of a data set of commercially available amines. New molecular structures and commercially-available compounds that have received little attention as CO2 capture solvents are successfully identified and assessed using the proposed approach. We recommend that these solvents should be given priority in experimental studies to identify new compounds.
AU - Papadopoulos,AI
AU - Badr,S
AU - Chremos,A
AU - Forte,E
AU - Zarogiannis,T
AU - Seferlis,P
AU - Papadokonstantakis,S
AU - Galindo,A
AU - Jackson,G
AU - Adjiman,CS
DO - 10.1039/c6me00049e
EP - 334
PY - 2016///
SN - 2058-9689
SP - 313
TI - Computer-aided molecular design and selection of CO2 capture solvents based on thermodynamics, reactivity and sustainability
T2 - Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6me00049e
UR - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000386624700008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/53552
VL - 1
ER -