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CFD Analysis of Chemical Looping Combustion with Special Emphasis on Indian Coal: A Review

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Soaring of average temperature and change in climate pattern is posing challenge to find out a reliable and economical solution of reducing carbon dioxide percentage from the atmosphere. Out of various methods of capturing carbon dioxide, chemical looping combustion (CLC) is proving to be the most efficient and economical method. Although many researchers did experimental investigation of CLC, prior to experimentation, it is necessary to perform numerical simulation to determine the optimum working parameters. The literature on CFD simulation of CLC is very limited. This paper reviews the recent work done by researchers on CFD simulation of CLC with different qualities of coal including Indian coal.

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Abbreviations

AR:

Air reactor

CD-CLC:

Coal direct CLC

CFD:

Computational fluid dynamics

CLC:

Chemical looping combustion

CLOU:

Chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling

DEM:

Discrete element method

FR:

Fuel reactor

OC:

Oxygen carrier

PDE:

Partial differential equation

TG-DSC-MS:

Thermal analyser-differential scanning calorimeter-mass spectrometer

TGA:

Thermal-gravimetric analyser

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Kumar, P., Parwani, A.K. (2021). CFD Analysis of Chemical Looping Combustion with Special Emphasis on Indian Coal: A Review. In: Goel, M., Satyanarayana, T., Sudhakar, M., Agrawal, D.P. (eds) Climate Change and Green Chemistry of CO2 Sequestration. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0029-6_5

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