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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2015, Volume 9, Issue 6 doi: 10.1007/s11783-015-0812-z

Simultaneous CO

1. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.2. Jian Kun New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100085, China

Accepted: 2015-08-24 Available online: 2015-11-23

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Abstract

The chemical looping concept provided a novel way to achieve carbon separation during the production of energy or substances. In this work, hydrogen generation with inherent CO capture in single packed bed reactor via this concept was discussed. Two oxygen carriers, Fe O 60 wt.% and Fe O 55 wt.%/CuO 5 wt.% supported by Al O , were made by ball milling method. First, according to the characteristics of the reduction breakthrough curve, a strict fuel supply strategy was selected to achieve simultaneous CO capture and H production. Then, in the long term tests using CO as fuel, it was proved that CuO addition improved hydrogen generation with the maximum intensity of 3700 μmol H ·g Fe O compared with Fe-Al of 2300 μmol H ·g Fe O . The overall CO capture efficiency remained 98%–98.8% over 100 cycles. Moreover, the reactivity of deactivated materials was recovered nearly like that of fresh ones by sintering treatment. Finally, two kinds of complex gases consist of CO, H , CH and CO were utilized as fuels to test the feasibility. The results showed all components could be completely converted by Fe-Cu-Al in the reduction stage. The intensity of hydrogen production and the overall CO capture efficiency were in the range of 2000–2400 μmol H ·g Fe O and 89%–95%, respectively.

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