Solid Waste Management of a Chemical-Looping Combustion Plant using Cu-Based Oxygen Carriers

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...

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...

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...

Syngas combustion in a 500 Wth Chemical-Looping Combustion system using an impregnated Cu-based oxygen carrier

Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) is an emerging technology for CO2 capture because separation of this gas from the other flue gas components is inherently to the process and thus no energy is expended for the separation. For its use with coal as fuel in power plants, a process integrated by coal gasification and CLC would have important advantages for CO2 capture. This paper presents the combu...