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Chemical Looping Processes 1 -- Metal Oxides and Supports Chemical Looping Processes


Description:
Chemical Looping processes involve cycling a solid between two reactors to selectively transport a chemical such as oxygen (for combustion) or carbon dioxide (for CO2 removal).  The successful Chemical Looping Processes session is being held for the fifth year in a row to addresses advances in development of chemical looping processes such as combustion reforming, hybrid-combustion gasification, including systems for CO2 capture, hydrogen productions, and other novel chemical looping technologies.  Technical presentations that address the following issues are requested: - Carrier materials for chemical looping systems - Chemical looping combustion - Chemical looping reforming - Chemical looping systems for capture of CO2 (pre/post combustion) - Hybrid combustion-gasification using chemical looping - Chemical looping reactor design - Material and energy or exergy balances for chemical looping systems - Experience from operation of chemical looping systems - Modeling of chemical looping systems - Techno-economic feasibility analysis for chemical looping systems - Novel chemical looping processes

Sponsor:
Transport and Energy Processes
Co-Sponsor(s):
Environmental Division (09)


Chair:
Kevin Whitty
Associate Professor
University of Utah
Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE), Chem. Eng. Dept.
50 South Central Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Fax Number: +1-801-585-9291
Email: kevin.whitty@utah.edu

Co-Chair:
Shwetha Ramkumar
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co
3120 Buffalo Speedway
Houston, TX 77098
Phone Number: 713-431-4963
Fax Number: 713-431-6387
Email: shwetha.ramkumar@exxonmobil.com


Papers:
Synthesis and Redox Pathways of CuO-Al2O3 Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping Combustion
Qasim Imtiaz, ETH Zurich; Agnieszka Kierzkowska, ETH Zurich; Marcin Broda, ETH Zurich; Christian Koenig, Paul Scherrer Institute; Olga Safonova, Paul Scherrer Institute; Maarten Nachtegaal, Paul Scherrer Institute; Tilman J. Schildhauer, Paul Scherrer Institute; Christoph R. Müller, ETH Zurich
Novel Ferrite Materials for H2 Production Using Chemical Looping
Victoria J. Aston, University of Colorado at Boulder; Brian W. Evanko, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jonathan Scheffe, University of Colorado at Boulder; Alan W. Weimer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Reducible Supports for Nickel-Based Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Combustion
Saurabh Bhavsar, US DOE-National Energy Technology Laboratory; Götz Veser, US DOE-National Energy Technology Laboratory
Cu Oxidation Kinetics In a Chemical Looping Combustion Systems
Eli A. Goldstein, Stanford University; Reginald E. Mitchell, Stanford University
Carbonaceous Fuel Conversions Through Redox Reactions of Oxygen Carrying Materials - Effect of Support
Nathan Galinsky, North Carolina State University; Yan Huang, North Carolina State University; Arya Shafie-Farhood, North Carolina State University; Fanxing Li, North Carolina State University
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