Investigating the Use of CaO/CuO Sorbents for in Situ CO<sub>2</sub> Capture in a Biomass Gasifier
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Abstract
The primary objective of this study was to investigate the integration of combined calcium looping (CaL) and chemical looping combustion (CLC) with steam gasification of biomass through the utilization of composite pellets consisting of limestone, CuO, and a calcium aluminate cement binder. In this process, the heat released from the exothermic reduction of CuO is used to calcine CaCO 3 . The technologies can be integrated by combining an oxygen carrier such as CuO with limestone within a composite pellet, or by cycling CuO and limestone within distinct particles. Using a thermogravimetric analyzer, it was demonstrated that the use of composite CaO/CuO/calcium-aluminate-cement pellets for gasification purposes required oxidation of Cu to be preceded by carbonation as opposed to the postcombustion case in which the pellets are oxidized prior to carbonation. Composite pellets were thus tested under this CO 2 capture sequence using varying carbonation conditions over multiple cycles. While the pellets exhibited relatively high carbonation conversion, the oxidation conversion declined for all tested conditions likely because of the CaCO 3 product impeding passage of O 2 molecules to the more remote Cu sites. The reduction in oxygen uptake was particularly important when the pellets were precarbonated in the presence of steam. Limestone-based pellets and Cu-based pellets were subsequently tested in separate CaL and CLC loops, respectively, to assess their performance in a dual-loop process. A maximum Cu content of 50% could be accommodated in a pellet with calcium aluminate cement as support with no loss in oxidation conversion and no observable agglomeration.
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