The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER) has teamed with Media and Process Technology Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) through support project FWP-FEW0242 to develop an intensified, innovative carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process. The project goals are to increase system efficiency and enable significant reductions in capital and operating costs of solvent-based post-combustion capture through: (1) the use of 3D-printed, two-channel structured packing material to control absorber temperature profile and increase the CO2 absorption rate, thereby allowing decreases in absorber size; (2) implementation of a zeolite membrane dewatering unit capable of substantial dewatering of carbon-rich solvent to decouple solvent concentrations that are optimum for CO2 absorption and desorption; and (3) utilization of a two-phase flow heat exchanger prior to the stripper, providing a secondary point of vapor generation for CO2 stripping resulting in significant energy savings.