Operation of the NETL Chemical Looping Reactor with Natural Gas and a Novel Copper-Iron Material

Technical Report · Wed Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1347568· OSTI ID:1347568

Bayham, Sanuel ^[1]; Straub, Doug ^[1]; Weber, Justin ^[1]

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1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Combustion Program, the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Research and Innovation Center (NETL R&IC) is investigating the feasibility of a novel combustion concept in which the GHG emissions can be significantly reduced. This concept involves burning fuel and air without mixing these two reactants. If this concept is technically feasible, then CO₂ emissions can be significantly reduced at a much lower cost than more conventional approaches. This indirect combustion concept has been called Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) because an intermediate material (i.e., a metaloxide) is continuously cycled to oxidize the fuel. This CLC concept is the focus of this research and will be described in more detail in the following sections.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• OSTI ID: 1347568
• Report Number(s): NETL--PUB-20912
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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