Global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions rose by 0.9% to an all-time high of 36.8 Giga tons estimated by the International Energy Agency in 2022. Chemical-based CO 2 absorption is one of the promising techniques where thermal energy is used to strip CO 2 out of the solvents. The main purpose of this study is to regenerate the aqueous carbon-rich solvents, namely, monoethanolamine (MEA), piperazine (PZ), and 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP) using a microwave (MW) technique. The aim is to understand the MW exposure effects on carbon loading, CO 2 stripping efficiency, stripping rate, cyclic capacity, energy demand, change in the physical properties such as pH, viscosity (μ), density (ρ), and surface tension (σ), and CO 2 stripping kinetics. From the experimental investigation, the maximum stripping efficiency obtained with the higher nominal power input is observed to be 68.62% for MEA, 71.05% for PZ, and 67.74% for AMP. The temperature rise is very prompt within 2 min of MW exposure, where the solution reaches 80−88 °C, and in another 3 min, 92−100 °C was reached, indicating that the highest stripping rate of 7.88 × 10 −4 kg/s was achieved in a short span of 2 min of regeneration for MEA at 30% power input level. AMP exhibits the highest cyclic capacity of 0.42 mol/mol, followed by MEA and PZ, and the corresponding energy consumption was 0.52 MJ/mol CO 2 . Increasing the MW power level has the direct influence on increased CO 2 stripping, and this facilitates decreasing μ, ρ, and σ of the lean solvents. During regeneration, the pH of the lean solvent increases due to CO 2 stripping. The desorption kinetic results revealed that CO 2 stripping is kinetically controlled.