Book description
This book presents the current carbonaceous fuel conversion
technologies based on chemical looping concepts in the context of
traditional or conventional technologies. The key features of the
chemical looping processes, their ability to generate a
sequestration-ready CO2 stream, are thoroughly discussed. Chapter 2 is
devoted entirely to the performance of particles in chemical looping
technology and covers the subjects of solid particle design, synthesis,
properties, and reactive characteristics. The looping processes can be
applied for combustion and/or gasification of carbon-based material such
as coal, natural gas, petroleum coke, and biomass directly or indirectly
for steam, syngas, hydrogen, chemicals, electricity, and liquid fuels
production. Details of the energy conversion efficiency and the
economics of these looping processes for combustion and gasification
applications in contrast to those of the conventional processes are
given in Chapters 3, 4, and 5. Finally, Chapter 6 presents additional
chemical looping applications that are potentially beneficial, including
those for H2 storage and onboard H2 production, CO2 capture in
combustion flue gas, power generation using fuel cell, steam-methane
reforming, tar sand digestion, and chemicals and liquid fuel production.
A CD is appended to this book that contains the chemical looping
simulation files and the simulation results based on the ASPEN Plus
software for such reactors as gasifier, reducer, oxidizer and
combustor, and for such processes as conventional gasification
processes, Syngas Chemical Looping Process, Calcium Looping Process,
and Carbonation-Calcination Reaction (CCR) Process.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not
included as part of eBook file.
Liang-Shih Fan is Distinguished University Professor and C. John
Easton Professor in Engineering in the Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is the U. S.
Editor of Powder Technology and has served as a consulting editor of
ten other journals and book series, including the AIChE Journal, the
I&EC Research, and the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.
He has authored or coauthored four books, 330 journal articles, and
twenty five patents, and has received a number of awards in
recognition of his research and teaching, including ACS's E. V.
Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and AIChE's
Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research. He is a
member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, an Academician of
the Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Mexican Academy of
Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
