TY - JOUR
T1 - Plasma-assisted chemical-looping combustion
T2 - Mechanistic insights into low temperature methane oxidation with CuO
AU - Burger, Christopher M.
AU - Hansen, Nils
AU - Zhang, Angie J.
AU - Ju, Yiguang
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the DOE grant DE-SC0020233 of Plasma Science Center , the DOE – NETL grant DE-FE0026825 , and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under contract number DE-NA0003525 . This work is supported by the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for the DOE under the 2020 Solicitation 1. This research used resources of the Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, which is a collaborative research facility supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DENA0003525. This paper describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. DOE or the U.S. Government.
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PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - The low-temperature oxidation of CH4 by CuO in a coaxial, fixed bed, double dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor was investigated with time-dependent species measurements by an electron-ionization molecular beam mass spectrometer (EI-MBMS). In the experiment, 10% methane carried by noble gasses was flown at 50 sccm through 1 g CuO dispersed in quartz wool both under plasma and non-plasma conditions, while time-dependent gas-phase species profiles were collected. Plasma conditions were explored from 300 to 600 °C while the non-plasma conditions were set from 300 to 900 °C. Mechanistic insights into the oxidation of CH4 by CuO with plasma discharge at lower temperatures (≤ 600 °C) were obtained by quantifying the fuel oxidation, intermediate species, and CO2 production in comparison to the non-plasma conditions. We observed significant enhancement of fuel oxidation from the plasma discharge between 400 and 500 °C. The CO2 production at 500 °C with plasma was greater than that at 700 °C without plasma, reducing fuel oxidation temperature by 200+ °C. During tests, three distinct reaction stages were observed: a gas-phase transport limited stage, a surface reaction limited kinetic stage, and an oxygen ion diffusion limited stage. It was observed that plasma greatly improved the reactivity of the second stage at low temperature. In addition, no carbon deposits were observed on the resultant particles, even under the presence of plasma. M. species such as C4H2 and C6H6 not previously observed or predicted in CuO/CH4 chemical looping were observed, with some species such as CH3OH only becoming detectable as total flowrate was increased from 50 to 1500sccm. A non-plasma reaction pathway for CH4 based the observed species from the MBMS spectrum and previous predictions from reactive molecular dynamics simulations was created, providing a framework from which future, more complex plasma CuO mechanisms can be crafted from.
AB - The low-temperature oxidation of CH4 by CuO in a coaxial, fixed bed, double dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor was investigated with time-dependent species measurements by an electron-ionization molecular beam mass spectrometer (EI-MBMS). In the experiment, 10% methane carried by noble gasses was flown at 50 sccm through 1 g CuO dispersed in quartz wool both under plasma and non-plasma conditions, while time-dependent gas-phase species profiles were collected. Plasma conditions were explored from 300 to 600 °C while the non-plasma conditions were set from 300 to 900 °C. Mechanistic insights into the oxidation of CH4 by CuO with plasma discharge at lower temperatures (≤ 600 °C) were obtained by quantifying the fuel oxidation, intermediate species, and CO2 production in comparison to the non-plasma conditions. We observed significant enhancement of fuel oxidation from the plasma discharge between 400 and 500 °C. The CO2 production at 500 °C with plasma was greater than that at 700 °C without plasma, reducing fuel oxidation temperature by 200+ °C. During tests, three distinct reaction stages were observed: a gas-phase transport limited stage, a surface reaction limited kinetic stage, and an oxygen ion diffusion limited stage. It was observed that plasma greatly improved the reactivity of the second stage at low temperature. In addition, no carbon deposits were observed on the resultant particles, even under the presence of plasma. M. species such as C4H2 and C6H6 not previously observed or predicted in CuO/CH4 chemical looping were observed, with some species such as CH3OH only becoming detectable as total flowrate was increased from 50 to 1500sccm. A non-plasma reaction pathway for CH4 based the observed species from the MBMS spectrum and previous predictions from reactive molecular dynamics simulations was created, providing a framework from which future, more complex plasma CuO mechanisms can be crafted from.
KW - Copper oxide
KW - Dielectric barrier discharge
KW - Fixed-bed flow reactor
KW - Methane
KW - Plasma-assisted chemical-looping combustion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proci.2022.07.156
DO - 10.1016/j.proci.2022.07.156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140824727
SN - 1540-7489
VL - 39
SP - 5551
EP - 5560
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
IS - 4
ER -