Abstract:
The reactivity between the CaSO
4 oxygen carrier with CaO additive and coal under steam atmosphere was studied in a fluidized bed reactor. The experimental results show that the addition of CaO can improve the performance of both coal gasification and CaSO
4 reduction, and increase the reaction rate of coal gasification and CaSO
4 reduction and the CO
2 generating rate. However, the catalysis of CaO drops as the reaction temperature rises. And the optimum reaction temperature is 900 ℃, at which the releases of gaseous sulfides are remarkably decreased by 63.19% and 27.37% for SO
2 and H
2S, respectively, as the molar ratio of CaO to CaSO
4 is 1.18. Meanwhile, the amount of CO
2 absorbed by CaO can be controlled to less than 2%.