Author : Yitao Zhang
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis Development of Chemical Looping Combustion Technology for Energy Application - Process Modeling, Experimental Aspect, and Exergy Analysis by : Yitao Zhang
Download or read book Development of Chemical Looping Combustion Technology for Energy Application - Process Modeling, Experimental Aspect, and Exergy Analysis written by Yitao Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rising concern of climate change, extensive research has been conducted in recent years on the mitigation of global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are considered as the key driver of global warming. Among the various greenhouse gases, CO2 is the major contributor to the greenhouse effect. Therefore, mitigation of CO2 emission is the key to address global warming. Chemical looping is an energy conversion technology that can directly produce a concentrated CO2 stream, ready for sequestration and utilization, without the need for an individual CO2 separation step, and thus, has the potential to drastically reduce the energy consumption and cost associated with CO2 capture in carbonaceous fuel energy conversion systems. In this dissertation, process modeling and analysis are conducted on solid fuel power production processes to quantify the energy penalty and exergy losses associated with CO2 capture technologies, including state-of-the-art solvent-based CO2 absorption, oxy-combustion using high purity oxygen, and chemical looping combustion technology. Following the comparison of various power production processes using solid fuel with and without CO2 capture, a comprehensive analysis is performed to investigate the effect of varying operation conditions on the performance of chemical looping combustion reactor system. The coal-direct chemical looping process is a chemical looping combustion technology using moving bed reducer configuration that can directly use coal as the feedstock without requiring upstream gasification steps. An integrated 250 kWth coal-direct chemical looping pilot unit using iron-based oxygen carriers has been constructed and demonstrated for long-term continuous operations. The principles for the design and operation of the primary reactor system are discussed in this dissertation. The results of a successful 288-hour continuous demonstration with pulverized bituminous coal are reported. The results from the pilot unit highlight the concept of the chemical looping combustion process as a promising solid fuel combustion technology with CO2 capture. To investigate chemical looping technology for hydrogen production, process simulation and analysis is performed on two distinct configurations for chemical looping H2 generation process. The simulation results of two chemical looping H2 generation configurations are compared with the conventional steam-methane reforming system to underscore the attractiveness of the chemical looping configurations.