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Title: Sequential Oxygen Reduction and Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Purification for Flue Gas Applications

Abstract

Sequestration or utilization of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) produced from fossil fuels depends on the ability to transform flue gas into purified streams. Recent developments in oxy‐combustion have improved the efficiency of energy generation and carbon capture (>90% CO 2 ). The subsequent removal of oxygen (O 2 ) from this flue gas is critical, but such a process is energy intensive, technologically challenging, and unsolved. Herein, a simulated flue gas stream is purified by the catalytic conversion of oxygen using methane (CH 4 ). The supported palladium (Pd) catalyst selectively reduces oxygen to an effluent gas with 99.7% CO 2 and 0.3% O 2 . Using a higher Pd loading has no impact on the oxygen conversion, whereas feeding excess CH 4 decreases the selectivity to CO 2 . A complete removal of O 2 is achieved using a copper‐based oxygen scavenger placed after the Pd catalyst bed, yielding a 100.0% pure CO 2 stream.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA
  2. Illinois State Geological Survey University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Champaign IL 61820 USA
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1503366
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐FE0029161
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Energy Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Energy Technology Journal Volume: 7 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2194-4288
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Kuhn, Andrew N., Chen, Zhitao, Lu, Yongqi, and Yang, Hong. Sequential Oxygen Reduction and Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Purification for Flue Gas Applications. Germany: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/ente.201800917.
Kuhn, Andrew N., Chen, Zhitao, Lu, Yongqi, & Yang, Hong. Sequential Oxygen Reduction and Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Purification for Flue Gas Applications. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201800917
Kuhn, Andrew N., Chen, Zhitao, Lu, Yongqi, and Yang, Hong. Mon . "Sequential Oxygen Reduction and Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Purification for Flue Gas Applications". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201800917.
@article{osti_1503366,
title = {Sequential Oxygen Reduction and Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Purification for Flue Gas Applications},
author = {Kuhn, Andrew N. and Chen, Zhitao and Lu, Yongqi and Yang, Hong},
abstractNote = {Sequestration or utilization of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) produced from fossil fuels depends on the ability to transform flue gas into purified streams. Recent developments in oxy‐combustion have improved the efficiency of energy generation and carbon capture (>90% CO 2 ). The subsequent removal of oxygen (O 2 ) from this flue gas is critical, but such a process is energy intensive, technologically challenging, and unsolved. Herein, a simulated flue gas stream is purified by the catalytic conversion of oxygen using methane (CH 4 ). The supported palladium (Pd) catalyst selectively reduces oxygen to an effluent gas with 99.7% CO 2 and 0.3% O 2 . Using a higher Pd loading has no impact on the oxygen conversion, whereas feeding excess CH 4 decreases the selectivity to CO 2 . A complete removal of O 2 is achieved using a copper‐based oxygen scavenger placed after the Pd catalyst bed, yielding a 100.0% pure CO 2 stream.},
doi = {10.1002/ente.201800917},
journal = {Energy Technology},
number = 4,
volume = 7,
place = {Germany},
year = {Mon Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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