NaBr-Enhanced CaO-Based Sorbents with a Macropore-Stabilized

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NaBr enhanced CaO-based sorbents with a macropore-stabilized microstructure for CO2 capture Yongqing Xu, Haoran Ding, Cong Luo, Qi Zhang, Ying Zheng, Xiaoshan Li, Yingchao Hu, and Liqi Zhang Energy Fuels, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b01327 • Publication Date (Web): 25 Jun 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on July 2, 2018

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CO2 capture

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Yongqing Xu†; Haoran Ding†; Cong Luo∗,†; Qi Zhang‡; Ying Zheng†; Xiaoshan Li†;

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Yingchao Hu†; Liqi Zhang†

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† State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, School of Energy and Power

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Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R.

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China ‡ School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and

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Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China

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Abstract

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Calcium looping process(CaLP) is well considered as an cost-effective scenario for

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trapping CO2 from flue gas. However, the CO2 capture capacity of natural CaO-based

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sorbents spoiled rapidly over the long-term cycles. In this work, NaBr was introduced

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to enhance the cyclic CO2 capture capacity of CaO sorbents. The NaBr modified CaO

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showed an improved activity and durability for carbonation. After 100 cycles, the

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” maintained a capacity of 0.202 g-CO2/g-sorbent, which was

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about 185% higher than that of unmodified CaCO3 precursor. The mechanism of ∗

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enhancement was analyzed by Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer(STA), In-situ X-Ray

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Powder Diffraction(In Situ XRD), Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission

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Spectrometer(ICP-OES), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope Coupled

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Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer (FSEM-EDS) and N2 physical absorption, and

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the results showed that the modified sorbent formed a well-linked macro-pore

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structure, which was relatively stable at high temperature reactions; besides, NaBr

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incorporated inside the CaO crystal lattice promoted the durability of pore structures

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and cyclic CO2 capture capacity. NaBr is an effective promoter that has the ability of

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enhancing the cyclic CO2 capture capacity of CaO-based sorbents.

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Keywords: carbon dioxide, calcium looping process, NaBr, doping

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Introduction

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The global climate is outlining unequivocal signals of warming, resulting in

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sensible ascent in average ocean and air temperatures, as well as the alarming growth

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in the average sea level.1 The enormous anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases

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are the major contributory elements to the global warming and CO2 is accepted as the

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largest contributor.2 CO2 capture and storage(CCS)3,

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technologies that have the potential to isolating CO2 from power plants and some

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industrials. Among them, calcium looping process(CaLP)5 is considered as one of the

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most promising scenarios for CO2 capture, as show in Fig. 1 (schematic diagram).

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is serials of developing

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This process has several intrinsic advantages such as the high theoretical absorption

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capacity, abundance of raw materials (limestone6, carbide slag7, steel slag8 and so on)

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and wide applicability of the calcium looping process (no need to scale-up existing

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power station boilers) and so on. It is based on the reversible carbonation and

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decarbonation reactions between CaO(g) with CO2(s) as show in Eq. (1).

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CaO( s) + CO2 ( g ) ↔ CaCO3 ( s)

∆H r ,298 K = −178 kJ/mol

(1)

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Fig. 1 schematic diagram of calcium looping process(CaLP).

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The carbonation process is exothermic and the counterreaction process, calcination

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process, is endothermic, which means that calcination is favored by higher

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temperatures9. The calcination process will occurred only if the partial pressure of

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ambient CO2 is below the decomposition pressure of carbonate product, which is

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controlled by equilibrium thermodynamics10. Based on enough experiments, a thermal

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equilibrium diagram of the reaction temperature versus CO2 partial pressure was

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recorded and then a typical expression for equilibrium decomposition pressure Peq

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with ambient temperature is proposed11, 12, as shown in Eq(2).

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 20474  Peq = 4.137 × 107 exp  −  atm T  

(2)

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Nevertheless, the primary demerit of this process is sintering13, 14 occurred at the

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repeated high temperature reactions, accordingly, the CO2 capture capacity of the

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CaO-based sorbents decayed drastically during the long-term cycles. Grasa and

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Abanades et al.15 have presented a semi-empirical formula to analysis the attenuation

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of carbonation conversion of CaO in long-term cycles, as show in Eq. (3).

XN =

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1 1 + kN 1− Xr

+ Xr

(3)

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Where, X N is the carbonation conversion achieved after Nth carbonation, k is

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the de-activation constant and X r represents the residual carbonation conversion

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after infinite number of cycles.

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Sintering is the main reason for the drastic decay of carbonation conversion of CaO.

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Specifically, the pore structure and specific surface area of CaO are destroyed within

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the duration of high temperature reaction process.

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On the basis of a large amount of experimental data, German and Munir et al.16

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have modeled the decay rate of specific surface area at high temperatures, as

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illustrated in Eq. (4)

(

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S0 − S γ ) = K st S0

(4)

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Where γ is a mechanism-derived parameter and K s represents a sintering

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constant which grows-up exponentially with temperature ( min −1 ), t shows the

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sintering time (min), S0 and S represent specific surface areas before and after

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sintering.

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Coble et al.17 put forward a model to estimate the decay of porosity of CaO at long-term high temperature sintering as illustrated in Eq. (5).

ε 0 − ε = k p ln(

t+a ) t0 + a

(5)

Where k p represents a constant on diffusion, ε is the porosity at time t , ε 0

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and t0 represent initial porosity and time at which grain shrinkage begins, a is a

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constant which is associated with the property of materials.

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The carbonation process is generally initiated with a rapid chemical reaction

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controlled stage which was followed by a precipitate transition to a product layer

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diffusion controlled stage with a very slow reaction rate18, 19. There is a critical

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thickness of product layer20, which is well regarded as 49nm (±19% of standard

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deviation), when the reaction kinetics of carbonation shifted to a slow product

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controlled stage from the fast chemical reaction controlled stage.

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During a typical calcium looing process(CaLP), the CaO sorbent was reutilized in

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long-term cycles. However, due to the drastic decay of CO2 capture capacity of CaO

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sorbents21, a mass of fresh CaO stocks were still needed, hence increasing the

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operating cost of the system22. Whereupon, recycling the waste calcium precursor23, 24

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has been well presented; besides, a great number of technologies have also been

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proposed for enhancing the CO2 capture capacity of CaO-based sorbents, including activation25,

hydration26,

organometallic

calcium

precursor27,

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steam

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acid-pretreatment29, templating with pore creating materials30,

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supporting33-35 with other oxides, improving the reaction conditions36, 37, employing

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some advanced preparation methods such as vapor-phase deposition38, 39, combustion

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synthesis40 and so on41, 42.

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, doping32 or

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Among these techniques, doping43 has been considered as a cost-effective method

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to enhance the CO2 capture capacity of CaO. However, alkali salt is well considered

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as low melting material which cannot enhance the cyclic CO2 capture behavior of

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CaO sorbents. There still a few researchers44-46 suggested that HBr can effectively

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enhance the cyclic CO2 capture capacity of the sorbents, but the HBr is an strong

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corrosive acid that not well suited for industrial CaL process. In our previous work,

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we have found that sea water hydrated lime sorbents kept a CO2 capture capacity of

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0.31 g of CO2/g of sorbent after 40 cycles, which was about 130% higher than that of

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original limestone precursor. However, that work failed to explore the enhancing

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mechanism due to the fact that limestone and sea salt were all mixtures. By means of

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DFT calculation, Wang et al.

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capacity of CaO, but the doping effect has not been detected by experiments yet. In

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this work, NaBr was doped to study the mechanism of Na+ on CO2 capture capacity

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enhancement of CaO sorbents.

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stated that Na+ doping can boost the CO2 capture

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2. Experimental section

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2.1 Materials and sorbent preparation

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The CaCO3 precursor and NaBr used in this paper were analytical grade purchased

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from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd, P. R. China. The preparation process is

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based on the method which has been reported in our previous work48. 10 g of CaCO3

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precursor was calcined at 850 oC, then it was poured into 50 ml of salt solution which

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had a given mass of NaBr dissolved. After that, the milk-like mixture was agitated

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continuously at 80 oC by a magnetic stirrer for 45 min, and then the mud-like mixture

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was dried at 100 oC for two days. At last, the lumpy product was ground and sieved to

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grains in 0.2-0.3 mm. For conveniently describing, the obtained doped sorbents were

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named as “NaBr/CaO-xx/100” (“xx/100” is the mole ratio of NaBr to CaO in the

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obtained sorbents).

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2.1 Experimental methods

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The cyclic carbonation/decarbonation performance of these sorbents were

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examined by a simultaneous thermal analyzer (STA 2500 Regulus, Netzsch), and the

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testing principle was illustrated in Fig. 2. Loading of about 8mg of samples, a

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measure crucible was held on the end of the measure holder, while another empty

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crucible was placed on the end of reference holder. A thermal analysis unit coupled

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with high sensitive analytical balance system was linked with these two holders. Prior

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to the calcium looping process, the samples were heated to 850 oC at a rate of 20

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o

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complete precalcination at 850 oC for 10min, 50 carbonation/decarbonation repeated

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tests were conducted continuously under the alternating of atmospheres as show in

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Table 1.

C/min under an N2 flow(high pure, 99.999%) of 170 ml/min in the STA. After

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Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of the simultaneous thermal analysis system.

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Table 1. Reaction conditions for calcium looping.

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The Nth and accumulative CO2 capture capacity are calculated as Eq. (6) and Eq. (7).

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(6)

n

C = ∑ CN

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k =1

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Where C N and mN are the CO2 capture capacity and the mass of CaO sorbent

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after Nth carbonation, m0 is the mass of CaO sorbent after completely calcination, C

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is the accumulative CO2 capture capacity.

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3 Results and discussion

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3.1 cyclic CO2 capture behavior of NaBr enhanced CaO-based sorbents.

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The cyclic CO2 capture performance of these modified samples was examined by

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the STA for 100 cycles, and the CO2 capture capacity C N of the samples were

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calculated by mass change, assuming that the mass change were only resulted from

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the carbonation and decarbonation of CaO. As the results shown in Fig. 3, the CO2

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capture capacity of CaCO3 precursor decayed dramatically over 100 cycles, from 0.59

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g-CO2/g-sorbent during the 1st carbonation to 0.071 g-CO2/g-sorbent during the 100th

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carbonation. But all of the NaBr modified sorbents showed continuously increase of

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capture capacity in the initial 4 cycles, after that the rate of loss-in-capacity of this

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modified sorbents were much slower than that of CaCO3 precursor with the increase

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of cyclic numbers. Over the long-term cycles, the stability of CO2 capture activity of

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the modified sorbent was enhanced with the increase of doping ratios. After 100

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cycles, the “NaBr/CaO-10/100” held a capacity of 0.202 g-CO2/g-sorbent(about 184%

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higher than that of CaCO3 precursor), which was tightly followed by the

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“NaBr/CaO-5/100”, “NaBr/CaO-1/100” and “NaBr/CaO-0.5/100”, with roughly

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178%, 147%, 101% higher than that of CaCO3 precursor. Hence, it can be speculated

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that the cyclic CO2 capture capacity became more stable as the NaBr doping ratio

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increase.

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Fig. 3. Cyclic CO2 capture behavior of the NaBr enhanced sorbents.

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The CaO sorbents would be reused to cyclic carry off CO2 from flue gases. Thus

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the accumulative CO2 carry capacity over the long-term cycles should be evaluated

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and the results were listed in Table 2. After 100 repeated cycles, the

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“NaBr/CaO-5/100” captured 24.370 g CO2(about 108% higher than that of CaCO3

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precusor),

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“NaBr/CaO-1/100” and “NaBr/CaO-0.5/100” , with about 24.370, 22.460 and 21.320

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g of CO2 carrying capacity.

which

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100”,

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Table 2. Accumulative CO2 capture capacity over 100 calcium looping process.

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The mechanism of cyclic CO2 capture capacity enhancement of doped CaO should

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be further investigated. The “NaBr/CaO-50/100” was examined by the STA to analyze

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the effect of NaBr on doped CaO, and the result as shown in Fig. 4 revealed that the

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sample underwent a severe weight loss over 750 oC, which illustrated that NaBr

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would sublimate rapidly when the temperature of the sample higher than 750 oC. A

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marked endothermic peak appeared at 750 oC, which suggested a drastic sublimation

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rate at this high temperature.

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Fig. 4 Thermoanalysis of NaBr doped CaO by a STA at high temperature.

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To analyze the ratio of NaBr remained inside the sorbent, the “NaBr/CaO-10/100”

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was tested by an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer

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(ICP-OES). Before the test, the samples were calcined at 850 oC, and then dissolved

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by dilute nitric acid. The result was listed in Table 3 that the atom ratios of Na to Ca

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inside the sample decreased from 10:100 to 3.7:100 after calcination at 850 oC, which

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illustrated that there was still NaBr remained inside the doped sample.

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Table 3. Mole ratio of Na:Ca (tested by ICP-OES)

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To characterize the crystal structure change of the doped samples, the

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” was examined by an In-situ XRD apparatus(D8 Advance,

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Bruker), and the interplanar spacing was calculated by Braggs law as shown in Eq. 8.

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As the result illustrated in Fig. 5, the interplanar spacing of (200), (311) and (222)

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became larger when the temperature gone up, while the spacing changed back to its

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original state when the temperature reduced. The lattice expansion was the results of

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the high temperature, accordingly trapped sodium atoms inside the grains. Besides,

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the (311) and (222) revealed convincing additional diffraction peaks, which

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represented some potential doping atoms inside the crystal structures. The enhanced

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cyclic CO2 capture capacity of the CaO may be resulted from the Na+ inside the CaO

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crystal lattice.

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2d sin θ = nλ , n=1,2......

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(8)

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Fig. 5 In situ XRD patterns of “NaBr/CaO-10/100” at different temperatures (step

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size= 0.020481) (1#, room temperature ; 2#, heating up to 650 oC; 3#, heating up to

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850 oC; 4#, cooling back down to 650 oC; 5#, cooling back down to room

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temperature)

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To analyze morphology of the calcined sorbents after long-term cycles, a Field

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Emission Scanning Electron Microscopic Coupled Energy Dispersive X-Ray

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Spectroscopy (FSEM-EDXS) was employed and the topographies of the various

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calcined CaO were displayed in Fig. 6. After 50 cycles, the topography of calcined

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“CaCO3 precursor” seemed coarse, as illustrated in Fig. 6(a) and (b), which were

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slightly fluffier than that of the “NaBr/CaO-1/100” as shown in Fig. 6(c) and (d).

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While the “NaBr/CaO-10/100” showed much more porous than “NaBr/CaO-1/100”

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after the same 50 cycles, as represented in Fig. 6(e) and (f).

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It is well stated that porous structure49 is beneficial to the diffusion of CO2 into the

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CaO pore walls, accordingly enhance the CO2 capture capacity of the sorbents. The

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” held a host of uniform macro-pores (about 1 um) inside the CaO

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particle, and the well inter-connected micro-scale pores should be good depressor that

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inhibited the agglomeration of CaO grains.

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Fig. 6 FSEM images of calcined sorbents after 50 cycles: (a) and (b) CaCO3

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precursor; (c) and (d) “NaBr/CaO-1/100”; (e) and (f) “NaBr/CaO-10/100”

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To investigate the uniformity of NaBr doping inside the CaO particles, the

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” was further tested by EDXS, and the elemental mapping

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(calcined at 750 oC) in Fig. 7 proved the well-disperse Ca, O, Na and Br inside the

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particles, although the peak intensity of Na and Br were relatively weak. After higher

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temperature calcination process and 50 cycles, the signal of Na and Br were much

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weaker as shown in Fig. S1 and S2 (Supporting Information).

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Fig. 7 Elemental mapping of images (Na, Br, Ca, O).

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It is regarded that the sintering of CaO sorbents are linked with the specific surface

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area and porosity of the calcined sorbents. The BET surface areas of the calcined

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sorbents after different cycles were examined by nitrogen physical absorption at -196

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samples were degassed under vacuum condition for 180 min, and the specific surface

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areas were analyzed by Brunauer Emmett Teller (BET) model. As the results listed in

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Table 4, the fresh CaO derived from “CaCO3 precursor” held the largest BET surface

C (3H-2000PS, Beishide Instrument Technology Co., Ltd). Before the test, the

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area, with 10.719 m2/g, which was about 3 times that of fresh CaO from

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100”. After 30 cycles, the BET surface area of calcined CaO derived

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from “CaCO3 precursor” dropped to 6.368 m2/g, but the CaO derived from

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” soared to 7.844 m2/g.

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The isothermal N2 adsorption/desorption profiles of the two CaO sorbents after

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various cycles were plotted in Fig. 8. The fresh CaO derived from “CaCO3 precursor”

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displayed Ⅳ isotherm sorption curves with a marked H1 type hysteresis loop in high

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relative pressure zone, which were related to the capillary condensation when filling

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and emptying of nitrogen molecular on the well-interlinked macro-pore walls. After

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30 cycles, the isotherm sorption/desorption curves of “CaCO3 precursor” was so

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smooth

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” held a Ⅲ isotherm sorption curves, which was similar with that

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of “CaCO3 precursor” after 30 cycles with low porosity; however, after 30 cycles, a

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noteworthy H1 type hysteresis loop was observed in high relative pressure zone,

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which was extremely similar with the fresh CaO of “CaCO3 precursor”. The porosity

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“NaBr/CaO-10/100” was low in porosity after the first calcination, but over the

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long-term cycles, it formed well-linked macro-pore structures, which was relatively

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stable at high temperature reactions. Hence it can be speculated that the NaBr may

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enhance the stability of microstructure of CaO sorbents.

that

“CaCO3

illustrated

precursor”

low

sank

porosity.

drastically

The

fresh

during

30

CaO

originated

cycles;

by

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Table 4. BET specific surface area of calcined samples after various cycles

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Fig. 8. N2 isotherm adsorption/desorption curves of the calcined samples after various cycles.

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Conclusion

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In this study, NaBr was introduced to enhance the cyclic CO2 capture capacity of

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CaO sorbents. Results indicated that after 100 cycles, the “NaBr/CaO-10/100”

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achieved a capacity of 0.202 g-CO2/g-sorbent, which was about 185% higher than that

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of unmodified CaCO3 precursor, and the modified CaO sorbent captured about

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24.370g of CO2 over the repeated 100 cycles, which was about 107% higher than that

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of unmodified CaCO3 precursor; besides, the NaBr enhanced sorbent formed a

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well-linked macro-pore structure, which illustrated relatively stable activity at high

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temperature reactions. The mechanism of NaBr enhancement on doped CaO was

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analyzed by STA, In-situ XRD, BET, ICP-OES and SEM. It revealed that NaBr inside

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the CaO grains underwent drastically sublimate under high temperature (higher than

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750 oC), but the interplanar spacing of CaO crystal cell became larger when the

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temperature gone up, accordingly trapped sodium and bromide ion inside the grains,

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and the sodium and bromide ion doped inside the CaO crystal lattice boosted the

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durability of micropore structures and cyclic CO2 capture capacity. In conclusion,

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NaBr is an effective promoter that has the ability of enhancing the cyclic CO2 capture

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capacity of CaO-based sorbents.

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Acknowledgements

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The financial supports from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.

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51606076) and the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion

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(FSKLCCB1705) are sincerely acknowledged. The authors are also grateful for the

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support from the “Analytical and Testing Center” at Huazhong University of Science

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& Technology.

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Table 1. Reaction conditions for calcium looping. Temperature(°C)

N2(ml/min)

CO2(ml/min)

Duration(min)

carbonation

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50

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calcination

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Table 2. Accumulative CO2 capture capacity over 100 calcium looping process. Samples

Accumulative CO2 capture capacity(g)

CaCO3 precusor

11.768

NaBr/CaO-0.5/100

21.320

NaBr/CaO-1/100

22.460

NaBr/CaO-5/100

24.522

NaBr/CaO-10/100

24.370

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Table 3. Mole ratio of Na:Ca (tested by ICP-OES) Samples

mole ratio of Na/Ca

NaBr/CaO-10/100 before calcination

10:100

NaBr/CaO-10/100 after calcination

3.7:100

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Table 4. BET specific surface area of calcined samples after various cycles Sample

BET specific surface area(m2/g)

CaCO3, after 0 cycles

10.719

NaBr/CaO-10/100, after 0 cycles

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CaCO3, after 30 cycles

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NaBr/CaO-10/100, after 30 cycles

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Fig. 6 FSEM images of calcined sorbents after 50 cycles: (a) and (b) CaCO3 precursor; (c) and (d) “NaBr/CaO-1/100”; (e) and (f) “NaBr/CaO-10/100”

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