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Modeling and Simulation of Chemical Looping Combustion Using a Copper-Based Oxygen Carrier in a Double-Loop Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor System
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posted on 2017-11-25, 00:00 authored by Yuanwei Zhang, Øyvind Langørgen, Inge Saanum, Zhongxi Chao, Hugo A. JakobsenIn this work, a computational fluid
dynamics simulator has been
developed for a novel double-loop circulating fluidized bed reactor
which is used for a chemical looping combustion process. The simulator
is implemented in an in-house code including the kinetic theory of
granular flow and reaction models. Methane is used as fuel, and copper
oxide-based particles are used as oxygen carrier. The process is configured
with an air reactor and a fuel reactor. The two reactors are modeled
and solved by a sequential approach. The connection between the two
reactors is realized through time-dependent inlet and outlet boundary
conditions. The model is validated with the experimental data obtained
in the current work. At a thermal input of 100 kW, a methane conversion
of 98% was achieved. For the cases studied in this work, temperature
is the most important factor for the reactor performance, followed
by the gas velocity and methane concentration of fuel. The increase
of the methane concentration could decrease the methane conversion,
which is due to the decrease of specific inventory. As the gas velocity
is increased, the residence time and the degree of gas–solid
contact decreases, causing a decrease in reactor performance. Besides
the effect of the single factor, the combination effect of the gas
velocity and methane concentration is also important to the reactor
performance.
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methane conversionfluid dynamics simulatorfluidized bed reactorreactor performancecopper oxide-based particlesCopper-Based Oxygen CarrierChemical Looping CombustionDouble-Loop Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor Systemchemical looping combustion processgas velocityoutlet boundary conditionsmethane concentration
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