“…Thus, climate changes forced by CO 2 depend primarily on cumulative emissions, making it progressively more and more difficult to avoid further substantial greenhouse effects (NOAA, 2013); their mitigation has become a challenge for many years because of their deleterious effects on social, economic and environmental aspects. Therefore the interest in the development of CO 2 capture technology has increased due to the rising effects of global warming (IPCC, 2012) and many techniques have been developed, the most commonly applied being absorption by chemical solvents (Diamantonis et al, 2013;Khan et al, 2011;Lucquiaud and Gibbins, 2011;Mores et al, 2011Mores et al, , 2012Posch and Haider, 2013;Sofia et al, 2014). This technology is a mature technology, with monoethanolamine (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA) and methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) (Khoo and Tan, 2006;Langé et al, 2013;Pellegrini et al, 2011Pellegrini et al, , 2013; * Corresponding author.…”