Coal-Based Power Plant with CLC

CLC technology is particularly suitable for coal-fired power plants because the reactor loop can be used in two different configurations. In the first case, the CLC occurs with syngas that is previously produced in a coal gasification plant and the power plant is designed as the typical IGCC so that the CLC is carried out at pressurized conditions, as already discussed for NGCC. In the second case, the CLC reactors can substitute the coal boiler and the OCs react with the solid fuel as proposed for the isG-CLC and the CLOU mechanisms. 

By increasing the maximum temperature at the air reactor and, thus the TIT of the gas turbine, the electric efficiency increases (about -1-1 percentage points of the net electric efficiency every 100 °C) the lower gain in electric efficiency compared to the natural gas power 

Reproduced from Ref. [86], with permission from Elsevier. 

The integration of CLC with fossil fuel power plant has also been investigated by Spal-lina [91] using dynamically operated PBRs operated with syngas from coal gasification. 

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