How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?

Maintaining high CO2 uptake is critical for combined Ca-Cu looping applications, however, the long-term behaviour of combined Ca and Cu materials under repeated cycling conditions remains less understood. This study examined three materials with a fixed Cu/Ca mole ratio of 1.6 to analyse the materia...

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Main Authors: Yaoyao Zheng, Stuart A. Scott
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
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description Maintaining high CO2 uptake is critical for combined Ca-Cu looping applications, however, the long-term behaviour of combined Ca and Cu materials under repeated cycling conditions remains less understood. This study examined three materials with a fixed Cu/Ca mole ratio of 1.6 to analyse the material phase evolution and identify factors influencing CO2 uptake. The materials underwent 50 TGA cycles in two distinct looping applications: blast furnace gas (BFG) cycling (reduction-carbonation-oxidation) and flue gas cycling (carbonation-reduction-oxidation).Different preparation methods significantly affected the initial phase distribution. The multi-grain precipitate material (MGP), prepared to minimise the chemical contact between Ca and Cu, primarily contained separate CaO and CuO phases; while the multi-stage mechanically mixed materials (MM1 and MM2), in which there was extensive contact between the Ca and Cu, exhibited mixed Ca-Cu-O phases along with separate CuO. However, the initial phase distribution had little influence on the longer-term CO2 uptake with the accessibility of CaO and cycling conditions having a more significant impact. BFG cycling consistently resulted 70–100; % greater CO2 uptake than flue gas cycling, highlighting the strong influence of cycling conditions.
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spelling doaj-art-bffe8adeb18b4e3f82c01fa84c5180192025-08-20T03:21:16ZengElsevierCarbon Capture Science & Technology2772-65682025-06-011510038910.1016/j.ccst.2025.100389How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?Yaoyao Zheng0Stuart A. Scott1University of Cambridge, Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK; University of Nottingham, Faculty of Engineering, Nottingham, UK; Corresponding author at: Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.University of Cambridge, Engineering Department, Cambridge, UKMaintaining high CO2 uptake is critical for combined Ca-Cu looping applications, however, the long-term behaviour of combined Ca and Cu materials under repeated cycling conditions remains less understood. This study examined three materials with a fixed Cu/Ca mole ratio of 1.6 to analyse the material phase evolution and identify factors influencing CO2 uptake. The materials underwent 50 TGA cycles in two distinct looping applications: blast furnace gas (BFG) cycling (reduction-carbonation-oxidation) and flue gas cycling (carbonation-reduction-oxidation).Different preparation methods significantly affected the initial phase distribution. The multi-grain precipitate material (MGP), prepared to minimise the chemical contact between Ca and Cu, primarily contained separate CaO and CuO phases; while the multi-stage mechanically mixed materials (MM1 and MM2), in which there was extensive contact between the Ca and Cu, exhibited mixed Ca-Cu-O phases along with separate CuO. However, the initial phase distribution had little influence on the longer-term CO2 uptake with the accessibility of CaO and cycling conditions having a more significant impact. BFG cycling consistently resulted 70–100; % greater CO2 uptake than flue gas cycling, highlighting the strong influence of cycling conditions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772656825000296Chemical loopingCalcium loopingBlast furnace gasFlue gasCaO/CuO
spellingShingle Yaoyao Zheng
Stuart A. Scott
How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
Carbon Capture Science & Technology
Chemical looping
Calcium looping
Blast furnace gas
Flue gas
CaO/CuO
title How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
title_full How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
title_fullStr How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
title_full_unstemmed How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
title_short How do CaO/CuO materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles?
title_sort how do cao cuo materials evolve in integrated calcium and chemical looping cycles
topic Chemical looping
Calcium looping
Blast furnace gas
Flue gas
CaO/CuO
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772656825000296
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