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Solid-sorbent fluidized-bed DAC with compression heat recovery

Direct air captureFluidized bedHeat recoveryCO2 liquefaction
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A second, lower-temperature DAC pathway alongside the liquid-KOH + rotary-kiln example: the captured CO2 loads onto a solid sorbent, which regenerates in an indirectly-heated fluidized bed (real Wen-Yu minimum-fluidization sizing + Arrhenius desorption kinetics, unitops/solids.py's FluidizedBed) at 120 degC -- the real low-temperature regime solid amine/physisorbent DAC sorbents actually use, versus the other example's ~977 degC calcination. The bed is fluidized by a recycled CO2 sweep (self-sweep with product gas, a real design choice that sidesteps needing a steam-condensate knockout step). The desorbed CO2 is compressed toward liquefaction pressure in one adiabatic stage -- hot enough (~780 K discharge) that routing it through a heat exchanger against process utility water genuinely converts that water from subcooled liquid to a boiling mixed-phase stream before the CO2 continues on to the same real liquefaction physics as the other DAC example. Honesty note: this recovers real compression waste heat into a genuinely useful utility stream (the actual mechanical-vapor-recompression principle -- reusing a compressor's own heat instead of rejecting it to cooling water) but does NOT feed that heat back into the fluidized bed's own desorption duty, which this unit op takes as a fixed wall-temperature parameter, not a second heating-utility stream -- a literal closed MVR loop onto the desorber itself isn't wireable with this unit op as built.

The flowsheet

The solved topology — every unit op's real duty, conversion, or split, read straight off a genuine converged solve.

AIR FEED
FAN
Contactor
AIR VENT
Loaded Sorbent FEED
CO2 Sweep FEED
feed
gas
solid
Desorber
Regenerated Sorbent Product
CO2 Compressor
Utility Water FEED
hot
cold
hot
cold
HEAT Recovery HX
Recovered HEAT Water Product
CO2 Refrigerant
Liquid CO2 Product

The stream table

Every stream's flow, temperature, pressure, and composition — real converged numbers, not placeholders.

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