Advancing Green Hydrogen Purity with Iron-Based Self-Cleaning Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Hydrogen
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Green Hydrogen Generation in Fixed-Bed CLH
2.2. Investigation of the Carbon Deposition on the Support Pellets
2.3. Investigation of the Pore Structure Network in the Support Pellets
2.4. Carbon Deposition and Performance of the Oxygen Carrier
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Synthesis of the Oxygen Carrier
3.2. Chemical Looping Fixed-Bed Set-Up
3.3. Gas Chromatography
3.4. Thermogravimetric Analysis
3.5. SEM/EDX Analysis
3.6. Mercury Porosimetry
3.7. Infrared Spectroscopy
3.8. XRF
3.9. XRD
3.10. µ-CT Measurement
3.11. µ-CT Segmentation Analysis
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Blaschke, F.; Prasad, B.P.; Charry, E.M.; Halper, K.; Fuchs, M.; Resel, R.; Zojer, K.; Lammer, M.; Hasso, R.; Hacker, V. Advancing Green Hydrogen Purity with Iron-Based Self-Cleaning Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Hydrogen. Catalysts 2024, 14, 515. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14080515
Blaschke F, Prasad BP, Charry EM, Halper K, Fuchs M, Resel R, Zojer K, Lammer M, Hasso R, Hacker V. Advancing Green Hydrogen Purity with Iron-Based Self-Cleaning Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Hydrogen. Catalysts. 2024; 14(8):515. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14080515
Chicago/Turabian StyleBlaschke, Fabio, Biswal Prabhu Prasad, Eduardo Machado Charry, Katharina Halper, Maximilian Fuchs, Roland Resel, Karin Zojer, Michael Lammer, Richard Hasso, and Viktor Hacker. 2024. "Advancing Green Hydrogen Purity with Iron-Based Self-Cleaning Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Hydrogen" Catalysts 14, no. 8: 515. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14080515