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ENERGY
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages 34-46Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.032
Keywords
Polygeneration; Chemical looping combustion; SNG; CO2 capture; Energy and economic analysis
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The current coal-to-SNG (synthetic natural gas) projects are facing two main issues, addressing on insufficient energy utilization and large amount of carbon emissions. For this reason, we proposed a coal based SNG and power cogeneration process, at the ability to achieve high-efficiency and achieve zero energy-penalty separation of CO2, by incorporation with chemical looping combustion (CLC). The main objective of this paper is to estimate thermodynamic performances under the effects of key parameters in order to pre-examine whether the proposed process is thermodynamically viable. At optimal condition (oxygen to carbon ratio (O/C) = 0.4, steam to carbon ratio (S/C) = 0.8 and recycling ratio of unreacted gas (Ru) = 3), the overall plant energy efficiency, exergy efficiency and energy saving ratio are 58.84%, 56.59% and 10.82%, respectively. The proposed process is compared with several traditional systems that aims to further demonstrate the superiority of such process design in terms of thermodynamic and preliminarily economic assessment. A sensitivity analysis is also included to examine the effects of different coal feedstocks and oxygen carriers of CLC on system performances. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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