Abstract
The chemical looping reaction is applied to the combustion and gasification of coal for effective energy conversion. The reduction of metal oxide is examined in the fixed / fluidized bed of 20 mm I.D. and 1120 mm in height. As a lattice oxygen carrier, iron oxide is used and coated on the porous alumina of 0.2 mm mean diameter. Taiheiyo coal of 0.5 g is dropped into the test section and gas production profiles were measured with the temperature range 793 K through 983 K. Initial stage of the reaction, only carbon dioxide is observed, while the hydrogen is produced simultaneously for the insufficient amount of lattice oxygen. Hydrogen yield is about 2.5 times of the carbon content and this exceeds 2.0 which is obtained from the complete reactions of the Water gas and Shift reactions. The extra hydrogen is produced from the hydrogen contained in coal and it may give higher cold gas efficiency.
