CO2 gasification of Powder River Basin coal catalyzed by a cost-effective and environmentally friendly iron catalyst

Fan Zhang, Deping Xu, Yonggang Wang, Morris D. Argyle and Maohong Fan

Applied Energy, 2015, vol. 145, issue C, 295-305

Abstract: CO2 gasification of a sub-bituminous Wyodak coal from the Powder River Basin (PRB) was conducted in a fixed-bed laboratory gasifier at atmospheric pressure with FeCO3 as a catalyst precursor. The effect of iron on the coal pyrolysis was evaluated by thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was employed to characterize the iron performance in the char gasification. The iron species and oxidation states during the coal gasification, characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Mössbauer spectroscopy, indicate a complex interaction between the reaction atmosphere and temperature, but generally proceed through reduction to FeO and metallic iron during pyrolysis, followed by subsequent reoxidation to Fe3O4 during gasification with CO2. The catalytic effect of iron was also quantitatively evaluated by kinetic analysis using shrinking core and random pore models, with the shrinking core model providing superior results. Results show that the apparent activation energy was 92.7kJ/mol for the untreated coal, which decreased to 58.3kJ/mol for the coal with 3wt% Fe. FeCO3 was shown to have a significant catalytic effect on the Wyodak coal gasification with CO2.

Keywords: Coal gasification; CO2; FeCO3; Kinetics; Catalysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.098

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