The
solubility of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in a mixed
solvent containing (19.5 to 35.5) mass percent of N-methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), (0 to 11.6) mass percent of piperazine
(PZ), (0 to 10) mass percent of sulfolane (SFL), and water at temperatures
of (313.15 to 353.15) K and H2S partial pressures of up
to about 2 MPa is reported. To determine the absorption of H2S, the density of the solutions in the corresponding temperature
range was measured using a vibrating-tube densimeter. The results
show that H2S solubility decreases with increasing temperature
and increases with partial pressure of H2S. In addition,
increasing PZ concentration can enhance the absorption capacity of
MDEA, as a benchmark alkanolamine, in aqueous and mixed aqueous sulfolane
solutions in the low-loading region. A thermodynamic model based on
the extended Debye–Hükel theory, namely Deshmukh-Mather
model for the liquid phase, combined with the Peng-Robinson equation
of state for the gas phase, was applied to correlate the H2S solubility data obtained. The average absolute deviation of the
correlated data from the experimental data is 6.5%, which implies
good correlative accuracy of the thermodynamic model employed in this
work.