Abstract: A method for removing acidic gases from a post combustion process stream, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the post combustion process stream into hollow fibers of at least one MBC cell, each hollow fiber gas permeable, liquid impermeable; passing a lean solvent in contact with an external surface of said hollow fibers; exchanging said acidic gas into the solvent through the hollow fiber; venting an acidic gas lean stream; exiting an acidic gas rich solvent.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designing and assessing the performance of a hollow fibre membrane contactor (MBC) in a natural gas sweetening process using a MBC model is described in an embodiment. The MBC model comprises model parameters, model equations and boundary conditions for calculating data associated with the natural gas sweetening process. The natural gas sweetening process comprises removal of acid gas from natural gas using a solvent comprising at least one component. The method comprises: (i) forming a regression model using empirical data; (ii) determining a Henry's constant of CO2 in the solvent using the regression model; (iii) inputting the determined Henry's constant of CO2 in the MBC model as one of the model parameters; and (iv) determining CO2 absorption in the solvent using the MBC model for designing and assessing the performance of the MBC.