Experimental investigation of chemical-looping hydrogen generation using Al 2 O 3 or TiO 2 -supported iron oxides in a batch fluidized bed

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (15) ◽  
pp. 8915-8926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyi Chen ◽  
Qiliang Shi ◽  
Zhipeng Xue ◽  
Xiaoyan Sun ◽  
Wenguo Xiang
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyi Chen ◽  
Zhipeng Xue ◽  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Changchun Xu ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
...  

Chemical-looping hydrogen generation (CLHG) integrates chemical-looping combustion (CLC) and the steam-iron process. It is a process for hydrogen production with inherent CO2 separation. CLHG includes three reactors: a fuel reactor, a steam reactor and an air reactor, with iron oxide as oxygen carrier. This paper presents a compact fluidized fuel reactor for CLHG to produce reductive FeO with CO2 sequestration. An iron ore as oxygen carrier was tested, and CO and syngas were used as fuels. The results showed that through this compact fuel reactor, reductive FeO for further hydrogen generation was obtained and a high concentration CO2 was separated at the outlet of the fuel reactor. The influence of riser temperature, bubble fluidized bed temperature and Fe2O3/CO ratio on the bed performance was investigated. It revealed that the bubble fluidized bed temperature and Fe2O3/CO ratio had a significant impact on the fuel conversion while the effect of riser temperature was marginal. The iron ore exhibited good reactivity and no agglomeration was found in the experiment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 02035
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Xue ◽  
Junfeng Xu ◽  
Minmin Zhao

Chemical-looping hydrogen generation can produce hydrogen from fossils fuels with inherent separation of CO2. In this article, a novel compact fluidized bed is used for CLHG to solve the problem of low fuel gas conversion causing by thermodynamic limit. Based on the compact fluidized bed, a modelling of three-reactor system for CLHG process is built to study the operating range of this system. The results show that the low limit of the system temperature is 650°C, or else unexpected reaction will occur in reactors. The system can achieve heat-integrated by mixing a certain amount of inert support into oxygen carrier and adjusting a suitable temperature different among reactors. Moreover, an operational range of the oxygen carrier recycle rate between 6 and 8 mol Fe/mol CH4 is recommended for more extensive operating region and relative higher CH4/H2 ratio can be obtain. Finally, a fitting formula described the operating range of this system is proposed to provide a reference for the experiment and simulation in further work.


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