Vacuum swing calcination process to produce high purity CO2 from CaCO3

[EN] This invention discloses a calcination process to produce high purity CO2 from solids containing CaCO3 which operates cyclically and continuously on the solids, arranged in a packed or a moving bed, and wherein each cycle comprises a first step where the combustion at atmospheric pressure of a fuel in the bed of solids containing CaCO3 heats them up to 800-900°C and a second step wherein a vacuum pressure between 0.05 and 0.5 atm is applied to extract pure CO2 from the solids containing CaCO3 while cooling them by 30-200°C. Said combustion can be carried out directly with air, oxygen enriched air or O2/CO2 mixtures when the process is applied to the calcination of a continuous flow of limestone in a moving bed shaft kiln. The process is also applied to calcine CaCO3 formed in reversible calcium looping processes comprising a carbonation reaction step to form CaCO3 from CaO.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abanades García, Juan Carlos, Arias Rozada, Borja, Fernández García, José Ramón
Format: solicitud de patente biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2022-12-08
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/300819
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