“…However, energy consumption has been demonstrated to be the key factor reducing the efficiency of power plants by many researchers (Chakma, 1995;Oexmann and Kather, 2010;Tan et al, 2011). Recently, non-aqueous solutions have been extensively investigated using organic solvents, such as methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol (EG), diethylene glycol (DEG), triethylene glycol (TEG), diethylene glycol monomethyl ether (DGME), Nmethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and tributyl phosphate (TBP) (Leites, 1998;Jou et al, 2000;Park et al, 2005Park et al, , 2006aUsubharatana and Tontiwachwuthikul, 2009;Hwang et al, 2010;Tan et al, 2011), which provide significant advantages as for reducing solvent decomposition at high temperature and saving water evaporation energy in the CO 2 stripping process (Barzagli et al, 2013Yu et al, 2013.…”