Application of Carbonate Looping Cycle as an Energy-efficient Decarbonization Process of Key Fossil-intensive Industrial Applications

Low-carbon processes and technologies are required to be large-scale deployed in fossil industrial applications to reduce the anthropogenic carbon emissions and to influence the future decarbonized and sustainable global economy. This work shows via two fossil-intensive industrial processes, one key CO
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capture technology namely the carbonate looping cycle used to decarbonization. The evaluations are concentrated on developing basic process design, computational evaluation and thermal integration as well as overall assessment of decarbonization system with promising utilization for electricity and cement production systems. The decarbonization yield was set to min. 90%. A relevant finding is that the carbonate looping cycle is particularly efficient for decarbonization of industrial flue gases with high CO
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concentrations e.g., 15 – 40% vol. for instance from solid fuel-based thermal power plants, cement, metallurgy, pulp and paper etc. Another important element of carbonate looping technology represent the usage of spent sorbent within industrial process to be decarbonized.