Chemical-Looping Combustion with Liquid Fuels
Paper in proceeding, 2013

A project devoted to establishing chemical-looping combustion with liquid fuels currently being conducted by Chalmers University of Technology with support from Saudi Aramco is presented. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop technology capable of utilizing and processing heavy residual oils with inherent CO2 capture. Up to this point, a continuously operating reactor with the nominal effect 300 W has been designed, constructed, and successfully operated with nickel-, manganese-, copper- and iron-based oxygen-carrier particles using non-sulfurous and sulfurous kerosene as fuel. The results so far are very promising, and 99% conversion of fuel carbon to CO2 has been demonstrated with all four kinds of oxygen carrier materials. Chemical-looping reforming for synthesis gas production was also demonstrated using kerosene and the Ni-based oxygen carrier. Here, complete hydrocarbon conversion to CO and H2 was achieved. Future work includes design and construction of a larger 10 kW reactor system for direct combustion of heavier fuels such as fuel oil and heavy vacuum residues, as well as a techno- economic study. This paper provides an overview of the project and presents the main results and conclusions so far.

liquid fuel

chemical-looping combustion (CLC)

heavy oil residues

kerosene

Author

Magnus Rydén

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Energy Technology

Patrick Moldenhauer

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Energy Technology

Tobias Mattisson

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Energy Technology

Anders Lyngfelt

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Energy Technology

Mourad Younes

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)

Tidjani Niass

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)

Bandar Fadhel

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)

Jean-Pierre Ballaguet

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)

Energy Procedia

18766102 (ISSN)

Vol. 37 654-661

11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2012
Kyoto, Japan,

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Other Environmental Engineering

Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1016/j.egypro.2013.05.153

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