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[pleckner]

I'm going to address this more general than specific. There are a number of absorber internals you can conisider, just do some leg work and talk to some vendors.

You are obviously looking at using the sodium as the key component but what's formed after the reaction is what I'm more conerned with. You will have exceptionally high concentrations of chlorides at elevated temperatures. This is about the worst combination you can have for metallurgy. Do some research on this. The Hastelloys may work but there may be other materials even better. Use the vendors for this as well. I would consider cooling the gas upstream of the absorber to minimize this problem.

Your diameter will be a function of your gas velocity and pressure drop. Don't allow either to get too high. You The sodium concentration of sea water isn't that great so I expect you will need a fairly high flow rate. One way of helping the situation may be to recirculate the sea water at each stage.

I hope this helps get you going.