Abstract
Efficiently using petroleum coke as fuel and reducing carbon emission meanwhile have become attractive in oil processing industry. The paper is focused on the application of Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) with petroleum coke, with the purpose of investigating its combustion performance and effects of potassium. Some experiments were performed in a laboratory scale fluidized bed facility with a natural manganese-based oxygen carrier. Experimental results indicated that the coke conversion is very sensitive to reaction temperature. The present natural manganese-based oxygen carrier decorated by K has little effect on the improvement of coke conversion. XRD, SEM–EDX, and H 2 -TPR were adopted to characterize the reacted oxygen carrier samples. After being decorated by K, the oxygen carrier's capacity of transferring oxygen was decreased. A calcination temperature above the melting point of K 2 CO 3 (891 °C) shows better oxygen transfer reactivity in comparison to the one calcined at a lower temperature. The natural oxygen carrier used in the work has a high content of Si, which can easily react with K to form K(FeSi 2 O 6 ). Further, irrespective of reaction temperature, the coke conversion can be significantly enhanced by decorating the coke with K, with a demonstration of remarkably shorter reaction time, faster average coke gasification rate and higher average carbon conversion rate.
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