Abstract:
The chemical looping gasification (CLG) kinetics of biochars with calcium ferrite as oxygen carriers and the effects of different kinds of calcium ferrite and biochars were investigated by TGA. The properties of biochars and calcium ferrite were analyzed by XRD, SEM, BET, etc. The Škvára-Šesták method was used to determine the kinetic mechanism function. The results show that the reduction reaction rate and the oxygen carrying capacity of oxygen carriers follow the sequence: Ca
2Fe
2O
5 > CaFe
2O
4 > Fe
2O
3, and CaFe
2O
4 > Ca
2Fe
2O
5 > Fe
2O
3, respectively. The oxygen carriers can be completely reduced to Fe and CaO by biochar. The activation energy of CaFe
2O
4 reduction is in the range of 167.44–600.83 kJ/mol; and the activation energy of Ca
2Fe
2O
5 reduction is in the range of 413.62–583.51 kJ/mol. The CaFe
3O
5 generated during the reduction of CaFe
2O
4 may have a negative influence on the lattice oxygen diffusion. The reduction of CaFe
2O
4 can be divided into two stages: when the conversion degree
α is less than 0.15, the CaFe
2O
4 is reduced to Ca
2Fe
2O
5 following the random nucleation and nuclei growth model; when
α is greater than 0.15, Ca
2Fe
2O
5 is further reduced to CaO and Fe following the 3-D diffusion mechanism. The mechanism function of the reduction of Ca
2Fe
2O
5 is the same as that of the second stage of CaFe
2O
4 reduction.