Abstract
Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU) is a technological adaptation of CLC, most applicable for the combustion of solid fuels. In the CLOU process, an oxygen carrier in the fuel reactor, avoiding the direct contact of the fuel with the air, releases the oxygen needed for the fuel combustion. The oxygen carrier is regenerated with air in the interconnected air reactor. The present work explores the behavior of the system Mn/Mg/Si as oxygen carriers for chemical-looping with oxygen uncoupling (CLOU). Six different mixed oxides of the system Mn/Mg/Si were investigated for the CLC/CLOU process. Materials were prepared by spray drying with different metal ratios used in the investigation. The properties of interest for the viability of these materials are the lattice oxygen supply for CLC and the gaseous oxygen release for CLOU, properties that were explored in a TGA. Further, the fluidization behavior and the mechanical resistance were investigated in a batch fluidized bed reactor. In the TGA it was observed that the most reactive oxygen carriers for the CLOU process were materials without Si in the structure, more specifically M24Mg76 and M48Mg51 which had a molar ratio of Mn/Mg of 0.17 and 0.51 respectively. It was also observed that for the oxygen carriers with Si in the composition, the regeneration was very poor. Oxygen carriers M24Mg76 and M48Mg51 were selected for batch fluidized bed reactor testing showing good behavior with respect to the CLOU reactivity, and mechanical stability. One of the materials, the M24Mg76 showed activation during the experiments in the batch fluidized bed reactor experiments, increasing the oxygen transport capacity by 20 % during the experiment. However, 10 vol% of O2 was needed to regenerate both oxygen carriers at 850 °C. No agglomeration tendencies were seen, and the attrition rate was low, obtaining high-extrapolated lifetime values. The fact that highly reactive oxygen carriers can be made with cheap and highly available metals oxides, i.e. Mn and Mg, makes this system very promising and a possible alternative to benchmark Cu-based CLOU materials.
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