A Review on Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors for Carbon Capture: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Energy need is predicted to increase by 48% in the next 30 years. Global warming resulting from continuously increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration becoming a serious and pressing issue that needs be controlled. capture storage/use (CCS/CCU) provide promising route mitigate environmental consequences of emission fossil fuel combustion. In recent years, hollow fiber membrane contactors are regarded as an advanced technique with several competitive advantages over conventional technologies such easy scale-up, independent control flow rates, more operational flexibility, absence flooding foaming well high interfacial area per unit volume. However, many factors material selection, proper choice solvent, module design critical success. this regard, paper aims at covering all areas related membranes, including material, modification, surface shape, solvent characterization, operating parameters costs, hybrid process, lifetime, energy consumption commercially available systems. Current progress, future potential, development pilot-scale applications strategy also assessed carefully. Furthermore, pore wetting main technical challenge contactor industrial implementation for post- pre-combustion processes investigated detail.