Chemical looping (CL) represents a versatile, emerging strategy for sustainable chemical and energy conversion. Designing metal oxide oxygen carriers with suitable redox properties remains one of the most critical challenges...
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current study reports LaNi0.5Fe0.5O3−δ as a robust redox catalyst for CO2 splitting and methane
partial oxidation at relatively low temperatures
(∼700 °C) in the context of a hybrid redox process. Specifically,
perovskite-structured LaNi
x
Fe1–x
O3−δ (LNFs) with nine different
compositions (x = 0.05–0.5) were prepared
and investigated. Among the samples evaluated, LaNi0.4Fe0.6O3−δ and LaNi0.5Fe0.5O3−δ showed superior redox performance,
with ∼90% CO2 and methane conversions and >90%
syngas
selectivity. The standalone LNFs also demonstrated performance comparable
to that of LNF promoted by mixed conductive Ce0.85Gd0.1Cu0.05O2−δ (CGCO). Long-term
testing of LaNi0.5Fe0.5O3−δ indicated that the redox catalyst gradually loses its activity over
repeated redox cycles, amounting to approximately 0.02% activity loss
each cycle, averaged over 500 cycles. This gradual deactivation was
found to be reversible by deep oxidation with air. Further characterizations
indicated that the loss of activity resulted from a slow accumulation
of iron carbide (Fe3C and Fe5C2)
phases, which cannot be effectively removed during the CO2 splitting step. Reoxidation with air removed the carbide phases,
increased the availability of Fe for the redox reactions via solid-state
reactions with La2O3, and decreased the average
crystallite size of La2O3. Reactivating the
redox catalyst periodically, e.g., once every 40 cycles, was shown
to be highly effective, as confirmed by operating the redox catalyst
over 900 cumulative cycles while maintaining satisfactory redox performance.
Integration of carbon dioxide capture from flue gas with dry reforming of CH4 represents an attractive approach for CO2 utilization. The selection of a suitable bifunctional material serving as a...
This study reports molten metals (bismuth, indium, and tin) as effective modifiers for iron-based redox catalysts in the context of chemical loopingbased hydrogen production at intermediate temperatures (450−650 °C) from lowcalorific-value waste gas (e.g., blast furnace gas). The effects of the bismuth promoter on both the surface and bulk properties of iron oxides were studied in detail. Transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS), low-energy ion scattering (LEIS), Raman spectroscopy, and 18 O 2 exchange experiment revealed that the bismuth modifier forms an overlayer covering the bulk iron (oxides), leading to better anti-coking properties compared to reference La 0.8 Sr 0.2 FeO 3 -and Ce 0.9 Gd 0.1 O 2 -supported iron oxides. The Bimodified sample also exhibited improved anti-sintering properties and high redox activity, resulting in a 4-fold increase in oxygen capacity compared to pristine Fe 2 O 3 (28.9 vs 6.4 wt %) under a cyclic redox reaction at 550 °C. Meanwhile, a small amount of bismuth is doped into the iron oxide structure to effectively enhance its redox properties by lowering the oxygen vacancy formation energy (from 3.1 to 2.1 eV) and the energy barrier for vacancy migration, as confirmed by the experimental results and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Reactive testing indicates that Bi-modified redox catalysts are highly active to convert low-calorific-value waste gases such as blast furnace gas. Our study also indicates that this strategy can be generalized to low-melting-point metals such as Bi, In, and Sn for iron oxide modification in chemical looping processes.
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