Development of Cu-based oxygen carriers for chemical-looping combustion

Solid waste management of a chemical-looping combustion plant using Cu-based oxygen carriers.

Waste management generated from a Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) plant using copper-based materials is analyzed by two ways: the recovery and recycling of the used material and the disposal of the waste. A copper recovery process coupled to the CLC plant is proposed to avoid the loss of active material generated by elutriation from the system. Solid residues obtained from a 10 kWth CLC proto...

Ni-Cu OXYGEN CARRIERS TO REACH ZERO CO AND H2 EMISSIONS IN CHEMICAL-LOOPING COMBUSTION

Mapping of the Range of Operational Conditions for Cu-, Fe-, and Ni- based Oxygen Carriers in Chemical-Looping Combustion

Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) is a two-step combustion process that produces a pure CO2 stream, ready for compression and sequestration. A CLC system is composed by two reactors, an air and a fuel reactor, and an oxygen carrier circulating between the reactors, which transfers the oxygen necessary for the fuel combustion from the air to the fuel. This system can be designed similar to a cir...

Reduction Kinetics of Cu-, Ni-, and Fe-based Oxygen Carriers Using Syngas (CO+H2) for Chemical-Looping Combustion

The reactivity of three Cu-, Fe-, and Ni-based oxygen carriers to be used in a chemical-looping combustion (CLC) system using syngas as fuel has been analyzed. The oxygen carriers exhibited high reactivity during reduction with fuel gases present in syngas (H2 and CO), with average values in the range 8-30 % min. No effect of the gas products (H2O, CO2) on the reduction reaction rate was detect...

Effect of support on reactivity and selectivity of Ni- based oxygen carriers for Chemical-Looping Combustion

Different Ni-based oxygen carriers were prepared by dry impregnation using -Al2O3 as support. The reactivity, selectivity during methane combustion, attrition rate and agglomeration behaviour of the oxygen carriers were measured and analyzed in a termogravimetric analyzer and in a batch fluidized bed during multicycle reductionoxidation tests. * Manuscript