Monoethanolamine (MEA) was one of the alkanolamines introduced for CO2 absorption already in the 1930s and has been industrially important since then.
There is, however, still potential for improvement of the much-used absorption process using MEA in spite of all the development work done over these years.
To this end stirred cells will be important as a part of the arsenal of scientific methods to study the kinetics of gas-liquid reactions that are key issues in CO2 capture.
Efficient use of stirred cells might be a better line of investigation to follow than some of the semi-quantitative so-called screening tests in the sense that specific quantitative information would be produced.