文摘
The calcium looping (CaL) process, based on the calcination/carbonation of CaCO3, has emerged in the last years as a potentially low cost technology for CO2 capture. In this work, we show that the application of high intensity sound to limestone and dolomite beds in a CaL reactor enhances significantly their multicycle CO2 capture capacity. Experimental tests have been carried out in which pulsed sound waves are applied either during the calcination stage of each CaL cycle or in the carbonation stage. The effect of sound is to intensify the transfer of heat, mass, and momentum and becomes more marked when sound is applied during calcination by promoting CaO regeneration. The application of sound slows the decay of capture capacity with the number of cycles and, if other factors are kept equal, reduces the energy requirement to capture a unit mass of CO2.