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Process Control Strategies in Chemical Looping Gasification - A Novel Process for the Production of Biofuels Allowing for Net Negative CO2 Emissions

Dieringer, Paul ; Marx, Falko ; Alobaid, Falah ; Ströhle, Jochen ; Epple, Bernd (2021)
Process Control Strategies in Chemical Looping Gasification - A Novel Process for the Production of Biofuels Allowing for Net Negative CO2 Emissions.
In: Applied Sciences, 2020, 10 (12)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00014068
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Process Control Strategies in Chemical Looping Gasification - A Novel Process for the Production of Biofuels Allowing for Net Negative CO2 Emissions
Language: English
Date: 2021
Year of primary publication: 2020
Publisher: MDPI
Journal or Publication Title: Applied Sciences
Volume of the journal: 10
Issue Number: 12
Collation: 26 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00014068
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Origin: Secondary publication
Abstract:

Chemical looping gasification (CLG) is a novel gasification technique, allowing for the production of a nitrogen-free high calorific synthesis gas from solid hydrocarbon feedstocks, without requiring a costly air separation unit. Initial advances to better understand the CLG technology were made during first studies in lab and bench scale units and through basic process simulations. Yet, tailored process control strategies are required for larger CLG units, which are not equipped with auxiliary heating. Here, it becomes a demanding task to achieve autothermal CLG operation, for which stable reactor temperatures are obtained. This study presents two avenues to attain autothermal CLG behavior, established through equilibrium based process simulations. As a first approach, the dilution of active oxygen carrier materials with inert heat carriers to limit oxygen transport to the fuel reactor has been investigated. Secondly, the suitability of restricting the air flow to the air reactor in order to control the oxygen availability in the fuel reactor was examined. Process simulations show that both process control approaches facilitate controlled and de-coupled heat and oxygen transport between the two reactors of the chemical looping gasifier, thus allowing for efficient autothermal CLG operation. With the aim of inferring general guidelines on how CLG units have to be operated in order to achieve decent synthesis gas yields, different advantages and disadvantages associated to the two suggested process control strategies are discussed in detail and optimization avenues are presented.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-140684
Classification DDC: 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering
Divisions: 16 Department of Mechanical Engineering > Institut für Energiesysteme und Energietechnik (EST)
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2021 12:11
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2021 12:11
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/14068
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