Abstract
Oxy-fuel combustion of fossil fuel is one of the most promising methods for producing electricity, together with a stream of concentrated CO2 ready for sequestration. Oxy-fuel fluidized-bed combustion (FBC) can also use limestone as a sorbent for in situ capture of sulfur dioxide. However, although a limited number of studies have been performed on sulfation of limestone under oxy-fuel combustion conditions, there are still a number of important but unanswered questions. Here, the effect of water vapor on the sulfation of limestone was studied, because it has not been examined in detail in previous sulfation studies and past studies on direct sulfation of limestone in FBC either did not explore the influence of H2O or did so under unrealistic conditions for oxy-fuel FBC. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of water vapor on direct sulfation of limestone under simulated oxy-fuel circulating FBC (CFBC) conditions. Direct sulfation of three limestones was conducted in a thermogravimetric anal...
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