Feasibility study of the use of by-product iron oxide and industrial off-gas for application to chemical looping hydrogen production

Won Chul Cho, Doyeon Lee, Chang Hee Kim, Hyun Suk Cho and Sang Done Kim

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 216, issue C, 466-481

Abstract: The chemical looping strategy for hydrogen production (CLH2) offers a potentially viable option for efficient fuel conversion to hydrogen with the simultaneous capture of CO2. Typically, this process uses an iron-based composite as an oxygen carrier and syngas or methane as a fuel. The environmental and economic concerns motivate the use of abundant by-product iron oxide and the industrial off-gas for CLH2. Here we showed that H2 could be simply recovered from the industrial off-gas in a circulating fluidized bed with a mixture of the inexpensive raw material of by-product iron oxide and sand particle. The fluidization of the by-product iron oxide powder, which showed poor fluidization behavior, is improved by adding 60 vol% of sand particle. The industrial off-gas was completely converted to CO2 and H2O in a two-stage fluidized mode with a solid reactant of Fe2O3 of the binary particles, and then H2 was produced by oxidizing the reduced by-product iron oxide powder with steam. The binary particles showed consistent catalytic activity under multiple redox cycles by providing macropores with a size of ∼5 μm which facilitated gas diffusion. These findings provided valuable information for the future development of CLH2 based on by-products.

Keywords: Chemical looping; Industrial off-gas; Hydrogen; By-product iron oxide powder; Fluidization; Redox cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.078

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