ABSTRACT

Absorption is a phenomena where the solute from gas phase is being

absorbed in a liquid phase solvent. The gas and liquid phase are being contacted
and the component from gas phase diffuse to the liquid phase. The absorption
with chemical reaction will give a larger value of mass transfer coefficient than
the general absorption. The application of this absorption is especially for
separation processes in industries.
The objectives of this experiment are to get the value of overall mass
transfer coefficient (KG’.a), and also to understand the influences of NaOH
flowrate's and CO2 concentration's on the gas phase overall mass transfer
coefficient of CO2-NaOH system in the packed column.
The principal of this experiment is release CO2 gas in a packed column,
counter currently with the solvent (NaOH). The operation variable in the
experiment were CO2 gas concentration in the air, and NaOH flowrate. The
reaction is:
CO2 + 2 NaOH  Na2CO3 + H2O
From all datas and calculations, we can conclude that the overall gas
phase mass transfer coefficient increased with the increase of NaOH flowrate's,
and decreased with the increase of CO2 concentration's. The values of gas phase
overall mass transfer coefficients from the experiment are about 4,85x10-6 to
1,26x10-4mol/L.s.atm.