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Chemical Looping Combustion and Beyond

The chemical looping strategy, which integrates chemical reactions with separation through reactive particles such as oxygen carriers, represents a promising approach for carbonaceous energy conversion and process intensification. The chemical looping combustion (CLC) technology, as a reactive separation approach for CO2 capture from fossil fuel combustion, has been extensively investigated over the past three decades with exciting progress. Recent advances in chemical looping materials and process schemes have significantly expanded the applications of chemical looping into chemical productions and CO2 utilization. From scientific and engineering standpoints, chemical looping represents a very challenging and exciting research topic since it hinges upon practically all aspects of chemical engineering, including, but not limited to, surface and gas phase reactions, kinetic and transport phenomena, multiphase flow, particle technology, and process engineering. Such a truly interdisciplinary field also directly benefits from knowledge in surface science, chemistry, material science and engineering, mechanical and thermal engineering, among other disciplines. This special issue aims to assemble the most recent advances in all aspects of chemical looping including reactive carrier design, mechanistic studies, kinetic investigations, reactor design, and process demonstrations and analysis.

Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines

Keywords: Chemical looping, CO2 capture, CO2 utilization, Partial oxidation, Oxidative dehydrogenation, Oxygen carrier, Redox catalyst, Energy conversion, Catalysis, Process intensification.

Editors

  • Raffaella Ocone

    Professor Raffaella Ocone, Heriot-Watt University, UK She graduated from the Università di Napoli (Italy) and Princeton University (US). In 2017 she became the first “Caroline Herschel Visiting Professor” in Engineering at RUHR Universität (Germany); in 2018 she was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at Università di Bologna (Italy). In 2019, Raffaella was named as one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector. Raffaella’s main interests include the modelling of complex reactive systems and the hydrodynamics of granular media.

  • Götz Veser

    Professor Götz Veser, University of Pittsburgh, USA Professor Götz Veser obtained his PhD in physical chemistry from the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, he held positions at the University of Stuttgart and at the Max-Planck-Institute before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. Dr. Veser’s research focus on catalytic reaction engineering, functional nanomaterials, and process intensification, with applications that span from clean energy production and carbon capture to plastics waste processing and production of specialty chemicals.

  • Haibo Zhao

    Professor Haibo Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion (SKLCC), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research includes chemical-looping combustion and valorization, modeling and simulation of gas-solid multiphase reactive flows, thermoeconomic analysis and optimization of complex energy systems. He has won the research fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (08-09) and National Natural Science Foundation of China for distinguished young scholar (2020). Dr. Zhao has published more than 150 journal papers and 3 books. He is also the EBM of five journals and chaired many international conferences.

  • Fanxing Li

    Professor Fanxing Li, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, USA Dr. Li received his BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University and his PhD at the Ohio State University in 2009. He has published over 90 journal articles and book chapters. He is also an inventor/co-inventor of 11 issued patents. He has won numerous awards including the “20 under 40” by the American Society for Engineering Education, the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and was named as a NC State University Faculty Scholar and a winner of the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund.

Articles (10 in this collection)