Simultaneous CO 2 /SO 2 capture characteristics of three limestones were investigated in a pilot scale fluidizedbed reactor. For each of these sorbents, the measured CO 2 capture capacity decreased as the number of cycles increased and as the SO 2 concentration increased. On the other hand, the SO 2 capture increased with the number of cycles and the SO 2 concentration. The total calcium utilization decreased as the number of cycles increased, but the effect of SO 2 concentration on the total calcium utilization depended on the sulfation pattern of limestone. For one limestone (with unreacted-core-type sulfation), the total calcium utilization decreased with increasing SO 2 concentration. However, for the other two limestones (with uniform-type sulfation), the total calcium utilization was almost independent of SO 2 concentration for the range investigated. The results show that SO 2 reduces the CO 2 capture capacity of limestone and indicate that the sulfation patterns affect the CO 2 capture capacity.

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The chemical-looping gasification (CLG) of coal is a clean and effective technology for syngas generation. Sharing principles with chemical-looping combustion (CLC), CLG also uses oxygen carriers to transfer lattice oxygen to the fuel. Investigations into CLG with different O/C ratios are carried out in a fluidized bed reactor with steam used as the gasification− fluidization medium. The effect of the active component content of the oxygen carrier on the gas selectivity is performed, and reaction mechanisms between the Fe 2 O 3 oxygen carrier and coal with steam as the gasification agent are discussed. Moreover, we also assessed the reactivity of the CaO-decorated iron-based oxygen carrier particles in multicycle reactions. The carbon conversion efficiency is increased from 55.74 to 81% with increasing O/C ratio, whereas the content of H 2 first decreases and then increases. The addition of CaO can increase the carbon conversion efficiency and the gasification rate substantially and reduce the generation rate of H 2 S from 1.89 × 10 −3 to 0.156 × 10 −3 min −1 . Furthermore, X-ray diffraction (XRD) images indicate that the CaO-decorated iron-based oxygen carrier particles were completely regenerated after six redox cycles. Finally, the peak fitting of gasification reaction rate curves is used to explore the reaction mechanism between coal char and the CaOdecorated iron-based oxygen carrier, indicating that the reactions in the CLG include three stages: the complex reactions involved an oxygen carrier, coal char, and steam; the gasification of coal char; and the reduction of Fe 3 O 4 to FeO. The two-segment modified random pore model (MRPM) fits the experiment data well.