Chemical looping combustion Wikipedia. Chemical looping combustion CLC is a technological process typically employing a dual fluidized bed system circulating fluidized bed process where a metal oxide is employed as a bed material providing the oxygen for combustion in the fuel reactor. The reduced metal is then transferred to the second bed air reactor and re oxidized before being reintroduced back to the fuel reactor completing the loop. Isolation of the fuel from air simplifies the number of chemical reactions in combustion. Employing oxygen without nitrogen and the trace gases found in air eliminates the primary source for the formation of nitrogen oxide NOx, producing a flue gas composed primarily of carbon dioxide and water vapor other trace pollutants depend on the fuel selected. DescriptioneditChemical looping combustion CLC uses two or more reactions to perform the oxidation of hydrocarbon based fuels. In its simplest form, an oxygen carrying species normally a metal is first oxidised in air forming an oxide. This oxide is then reduced using a hydrocarbon as reducer in a second reaction. As an example, a nickel based system burning pure carbon would involve the two redox reactions 2. Nis O2g 2. Ni. Os1Cs 2. Ni. Os CO2g 2. Nis2If 1 and 2 are added together, the reaction set reduces to straight carbon oxidationthe nickel acting as a catalyst only i. Cs O2g CO2g3. Fig 1 Sankey diagram of energy fluxes in a reversible CLC system. CLC was first studied as way to produce CO2 from fossil fuels, using two interconnected fluidized beds. Later it was proposed as a system for increasing power station efficiency. The gain in efficiency is possible due to the enhanced reversibility of the two redox reactions in traditional single stage combustion, the release of a fuels energy occurs in a highly irreversible manner departing considerably from equilibrium. In CLC, if an appropriate oxygen carrier is chosen, both redox reactions can be made to occur almost reversibly and at relatively low temperatures. View the most recent ACS Editors Choice articles from ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering. See all ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering ACS Editors Choice. There is no single international journal at the moment that deals with the problem of performance of products, systems and services in its totality as the. Theoretically, this allows a power station using CLC to approach the ideal work output for an internal combustion engine without exposing components to excessive working temperatures. Microsoft Office 2007 Complete Version Cd Key Zip. ThermodynamicseditFig 1 illustrates the energy exchanges in a CLC system graphically, and shows a Sankey diagram of the energy fluxes occurring in a reversible CLC based engine. Studying Fig 1, a heat engine is arranged to receive heat at high temperature from the exothermic oxidation reaction. After converting part of this energy to work, the heat engine rejects the remaining energy as heat. Almost all of this heat rejection can be absorbed by the endothermic reduction reaction occurring in the reducer. This arrangement requires the redox reactions to be exothermic and endothermic respectively, but this is normally the case for most metals. Some additional heat exchange with the environment is required to satisfy the second law theoretically, for a reversible process, the heat exchange is related to the standard state entropy change, So, of the primary hydrocarbon oxidation reaction as follows Qo ToSo. However, for most hydrocarbons, So is a small value and, as a result, an engine of high overall efficiency is theoretically possible. CO2 captureeditAlthough proposed as a means of increasing efficiency, in recent years, interest has been shown in CLC as a carbon capture technique. Carbon capture is facilitated by CLC because the two redox reactions generate two intrinsically separated flue gas streams a stream from the oxidiser, consisting of atmospheric N2 and residual O2, but sensibly free of CO2 and a stream from the reducer containing CO2 and H2. O with very little diluent nitrogen. The oxidiser exit gas can be discharged to the atmosphere causing minimal CO2 pollution. The reducer exit gas contains almost all of the CO2 generated by the system and CLC therefore can be said to exhibit inherent carbon capture, as water vapour can easily be removed from the second flue gas via condensation, leading to a stream of almost pure CO2. This gives CLC clear benefits when compared with competing carbon capture technologies, as the latter generally involve a significant energy penalty associated with either post combustion scrubbing systems or the work input required for air separation plants. This has led to CLC being proposed as an energy efficient carbon capture technology,56 able to capture 9. CO2 from a Coal Direct Chemical Looping CDCL plant, a promising clean coal technology. Technology developmenteditFirst operation of chemical looping combustion with gaseous fuels was demonstrated in 2. Total operational experience in 3. MW is more than 9. Oxygen carrier materials used in operation include monometallic oxides of nickel, copper, manganese and iron, as well as various combined oxides including manganese oxides. Also natural ores have been in use, especially for solid fuels, including iron ores, manganese ores and ilmenite. Cost and energy penaltyeditA detailed technology assessment of chemical looping combustion of solid fuel, i. MWth power plant shows that the added boiler costs as compared to a normal circulating fluidized bed boiler are small, because of the similarities of the technologies. Major costs are instead CO2 compression, needed in all CO2 capture technologies, and oxygen production. Oxygen production is needed for achieving full conversion of the gas coming from the fuel reactor. In all the added costs were estimated to 2. CO2 whereas the energy penalty was 4. Variants and related technologieseditA variant of CLC is Chemical Looping Combustion with Oxygen Uncoupling CLOU where an oxygen carrier is used that releases gas phase oxygen in the fuel reactor, e. Cu. OCu. 2O. 1. 3 This is helpful for achieving high gas conversion, and especially when using solid fuels, where slow steam gasification of char can be avoided. CLOU operation with solid fuels shows high performance1. Chemical Looping can also be used to produce hydrogen in Chemical Looping Reforming CLR processes. Comprehensive overviews of the field are given in recent reviews on chemical looping technologies1. In summary CLC can achieve both an increase in power station efficiency simultaneously with low energy penalty carbon capture. Challenges with CLC include operation of dual fluidized bed maintaining carrier fluidization while avoiding crushing and attrition, and maintaining carrier stability over many cycles. Cost analysis. See alsoeditReferenceseditLewis, W., Gilliland, E. Sweeney, M. 1. 95. Gasification of carbon. Chemical Engineering Progress. Richter, H. J. Knoche, K. F. 1. 98. 3. Reversibility of combustion processes, in Efficiency and Costing Second law analysis of processes. ACS symposium series 2. Jerndal, E., Mattisson, T. Lyngfelt, A. 2. 00. Thermal analysis of chemical looping combustion. Trans IChem. E, Part a Chem. Eng. Res. And Des. 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