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Development and performance of iron based oxygen carriers containing calcium ferrites for chemical looping combustion and production of hydrogen

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Liu, W 
Dunstan, MT 
Scott, SA 

Abstract

Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a cyclic process in which an oxygen carrier (OC), is firstly reduced by a fuel, e.g. syngas, and then oxidised in air to produce heat. If the OC is Fe2O3, the oxidation can take place in steam to produce hydrogen, i.e. chemical looping hydrogen production (CLH). This paper presents an investigation of CaO modified Fe2O3 OCs for CLC and CLH. The performance of the mechanically mixed OCs were examined in a thermogravimetric analyser and a fluidised bed. It was found that the addition of CaO gives cyclic stability and additional capacity to produce hydrogen via CLH, at the expense of reduced oxygen carrying capacity for CLC, owing to the formation of calcium ferrites, such as Ca2Fe2O5.

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Chemical looping combustion, Chemical looping hydrogen production, Carbon dioxide capture, Fluidised bed, Calcium ferrites

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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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0360-3199
1879-3487

Volume Title

41

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Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I010912/1)
The authors would like to thank Prof. Clare Grey for her invaluable help in the XRD analysis and Z. Saracevic for support in operating the gas adsorption analyser. This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC grant EP/I070912/1). The first author is grateful to IDB (Islamic Development Bank) - Cambridge International Scholarship body for financial support for PhD study. W. L acknowledges funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.