Densities and viscosities of partially carbonated nonaqueous blends of 2-(methylamino)ethanol with 2-alkoxyethanols at temperatures of (293.15 to 353.15) K

Nonaqueous blends of alkanolamines with 2-alkoxyethanols have recently attracted much attention for an energy-efficient CO 2 capture process. In this work, densities and viscosities of partially CO 2 -loaded mixtures of 2- (methylamino)ethanol (MAE) with 2-methoxyethanol (EGME), 2-ethoxyethanol (EGEE) and 2-butoxyethanol (EGBE) were measured at atmospheric pressure over the temperature range of (293.15 to 353.15) K with amine mass fractions of (0.10, 0.30 0.40 and 0.50) containing various CO 2 loading. It was observed that both densities and viscosities of the carbonated solutions showed noticeable changes as increasing CO 2 loading, amine concentration and temperature. Dimensionless parameters from the CO 2 -free and CO 2 -loaded property data were fitted by proposed correlations. The calculated values of density and viscosity from the correlation models matched well with the experimental results of MAE + CO 2  + 2-alkoxyethanols, with AARDs within 0.28% and 2.20% for density and viscosity respectively. These results are useful to evaluate the mass transfer and hydrodynamic performance in a CO 2 capture process using these nonaqueous absorbents.