In this study, system layouts for integrated gasification solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine (IG-SOFC/GT) systems were proposed and their performance was comparatively evaluated. A baseline IGCC was simulated, and the calculation models were validated. Based on the IGCC system, two IG-SOFC/GT...

Support for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) for coal power plants is limited, to some extent, by the high cost of electricity associated with available technologies. While a comparison of different capture methods favors oxy-combustion technology, the cost is still prohibitively...

This paper presents a detailed study on the effect of temperature on the concentration of 27 major and trace elements in bottom ash generated from oxy fuel-combustion. The major elements are Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca and Fe and the minor and trace elements are Li, Cr, V, Mn, Sr, Ba, Cu, Zn, Rb, Co, Ni,...

A broadband, RGB, two-color pyrometry technique for measuring the flame temperature and total emissivity of a two-dimensional image of a coal flame has been developed and used on an oxy-coal flame. The method uses a single, relatively inexpensive, RGB, digital camera. The camera software permits...

The increasing interest in the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies requires a great effort to reduce capital and operating costs and to demonstrate the potential application of these kind of systems on the commercial power generation plants.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), when applied to biomass cofiring systems, can remove atmospheric CO2 since the CO2 that is consumed by the biomass during growth is not released back into the atmosphere. Biomass cofiring can also potentially contribute to meeting renewable portfolio standards...

In this paper, we experimentally investigated the time evolution of compositions in the gas phase and the hydrate slurry during long-term operations of hydrate-based CO2 separation. We performed continuous gas separation experiments at pressure of 2.3MPa and temperature of 273.2K. We continually...

The iron-based Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL) combustion process is an alternative to conventional oxy-combustion technologies, where the oxygen used for fuel conversion in the CDCL process is provided by an iron-oxide based oxygen carrier instead of an air separation unit. The iron oxide...

The main drawbacks of developing carbon adsorbents from pine sawdust, an abundant biomass feedstock, are the low carbon yield of the process and the poor mechanical properties of the resulting carbons. In an attempt to overcome these limitations, the effect of the addition of coal tar pitch was...

A new CO2 sorbent was prepared from carbide slag, aluminum nitrate hydrate and glycerol water solution by combustion synthesis method. The effects of the sorbent preparation conditions (glycerol addition, combustion synthesis temperature, ratio of carbide slag to aluminum nitrate hydrate) and...