A solvent and method for removing carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture flow with high carbon dioxide partial pressures are disclosed. The solvent includes a secondary or tertiary amine, an amine activator, a physical solvent (e.g., thioalkanol), and a carbonate buffer. The solvent contains less than about 60% by weight of water and is in a single liquid phase.

A non-aqueous solvent system configured to remove acidic gas from a gas stream comprises a solution formed of a chemical absorption component and a physical absorption component. The chemical absorption component includes a nitrogenous base, wherein the nitrogenous base has a structure such that it reacts with a portion of the acidic gas. The physical absorption component includes an organic diluent that is non-reactive with the acidic gas and that has a structure such that it absorbs a portion of the acidic gas at a pressure above atmospheric pressure. The solvent system has a solubility with water of less than about 10 g of solvent per 100 mL of water.

Provided is a method for upgrading a bio-based material, the method including the steps of pre-treating bio-renewable oil(s) and/or fat(s) to provide a bio-based fresh feed material, hydrotreating the bio-based fresh feed material, followed by separation, to provide a bio-propane composition.

The present invention relates to a method for the production of hydrogen. Hydrogen is used in many different chemical and industrial processes. Hydrogen is also an important fuel for future transportation and other uses as it does not generate any carbon dioxide emissions when used. The invention provides for a process for producing hydrogen comprising the steps of partially oxidizing a hydrocarbon to obtain a synthesis gas, providing the synthesis gas to a reactor in which carbon monoxide is converted to carbon dioxide, removing the carbon dioxide to obtain hydrogen. The carbon dioxide is used in a chemical process and/or stored in a geological reservoir.

Disclosed herein are methods of electrochemically enhanced amine-based CO.sub.2 capture and systems for performing the methods of amine-based CO.sub.2 capture. The present methods and systems advantageously may be carried out at ambient temperatures and allow for reusing the amine through multiple cycles.

An absorbent liquid which absorbs at least one of CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2S from a gas, including a secondary linear monoamine; a tertiary linear monoamine or a sterically hindered primary monoamine; and a secondary cyclic diamine, wherein a concentration of each of the secondary linear monoamine, the tertiary linear monoamine or the sterically hindered primary monoamine; and the secondary cyclic diamine is less than 30% by weight.

A reclaimer system and methods for using said reclaimer system to reclaim one or more amine agents from a fluid containing one or more degradation products that have been formed from the reaction of one or more acid gas components with the one or more amine agents.

A process for producing a deacidified fluid stream from a fluid stream comprising methanol and at least one acid gas and an apparatus for carrying out the process. The process comprising a) an absorption step in which the fluid stream is contacted with an absorbent in an absorber to obtain an absorbent laden with methanol and acid gases and an least partly deacidified fluid stream; b) a regeneration step in which at least a portion of the laden absorbent obtained from step a) is regenerated in a regenerator to obtain an at least partly regenerated absorbent and a gaseous stream comprising methanol, water and at least one acid gas; c) a recycling step in which at least a substream of the regenerated absorbent from step b) is recycled into the absorption step a); d) a condensation step in which a condensate comprising methanol and water is condensed out of the gaseous stream from step b); e) a distillation step in which at least a portion of the condensate from step d) is guided into a distillation column to obtain a top stream comprising methanol and a bottom stream comprising water; which comprises recycling at least a portion of the bottom stream from step e) into the regenerator.

A capture system for offshore carbon dioxide capture and a method for offshore carbon dioxide capture are described. A capture system for offshore carbon dioxide capture, the system comprising: a pressurised flue gas source configured to provide a pressurised flue gas 101; a solvent source configured to provide a liquid solvent; and a two-phase atomising nozzle in fluid communication with the pressurised flue gas source and the solvent source; wherein the two-phase atomising nozzle is configured for two-phase flow of a mixture of the pressurised flue gas and the liquid solvent in order to generate an atomised solvent spray of the liquid solvent.

An absorbing liquid which absorbs the CO.sub.2 or H.sub.2S or both contained in a gas, and which comprises 1) at least one tertiary-monoamine main agent selected from a tertiary-monoamine group and 2) at least one secondary-diamine first additive selected from a secondary-diamine group, the secondary-diamine concentration being within the range of 0.05 to 0.5 in terms of the additive concentration index represented by the following expression (I).

(Additive concentration index)=[(secondary-diamine acid dissociation index) (pKa)/(tertiary-monoamine acid dissociation index) (pKa)](index ratio)×[(secondary-diamine molar concentration) (mol/L)/(tertiary-monoamine molar concentration) (mol/L)](molar ratio)  (I).