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Alternative to current liquid amine technologies for post‐combustion CO2 capture, new technologies such as adsorbent‐based processes are developed, wherein material lifetime and degradation is important. Herein a robust method to determine degradation rates in a laboratory setup is developed, which was validated with a continuous multi‐staged fluidized bed pilot plant designed to capture 1 ton CO2 per day. An amine functionalized polystyrene adsorbent showed very good agreement between the experimental 1000‐hour laboratory degradation rates and 2200 hours of degradation in a pilot plant. This validates how laboratory experiments can be extrapolated for sorbent screening and for scale‐up. Resulting, the oxidative degradation in the desorber at high temperatures (120 °C) and low O2 concentrations (150 ppmv) is 3 times higher compared to the adsorber at low temperatures and high O2 (56 °C, 7 vol %). Laboratory degradation experiments can hence be used to further optimize process operations to limit degradation or screen for potential new adsorbents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research concentrates on the application of pulsed corona discharges to crack heavy tar components (hydrocarbons) of thermally generated biogas into lighter ones. The method has the advantage that it can operate at a high temperature and be retrofitted to existing installations. The corona discharge is energized by 100-150-ns-wide voltage pulses (100 kV) at a continuous repetition rate of 600-1000 pulses per second. The power dissipated by the corona discharges is 1.5 kW average and 50 MW peak in each pulse. To be cracked by discharges, the hydrocarbons of the tar mixture need to be gaseous, and therefore, the corona reactor must operate at a high temperature. During this first phase of the program, the reactor runs at a modest temperature of up to 200 [degrees] C. The reactor is a 3-m-long stainless steel cylinder, 0.25-m diameter with a corona wire along the axis. The pressure is 1 atmosphere. Index Terms--Biogas, discharge cleaning, electromagnetic compatibility, high voltage, hot gas cleanup, pulsed corona, pulsed power, tar removal.

Alternative to current liquid amine technologies for post-combustion CO 2 capture, new technologies such as adsorbent-based processes are developed, wherein material lifetime and degradation is important. Herein a robust method to determine degradation rates in a laboratory setup is developed, which was validated with a continuous multi-staged fluidized bed pilot plant designed to capture 1 ton CO 2 per day. An amine functionalized polystyrene adsorbent showed very good agreement between the experimental 1000-hour laboratory degradation rates and 2200 hours of degradation in a pilot plant. This validates how laboratory experiments can be extrapolated for sorbent screening and for scale-up. Resulting, the oxidative degradation in the desorber at high temperatures (120 °C) and low O 2 concentrations (150 ppmv) is 3 times higher compared to the adsorber at low temperatures and high O 2 (56 °C, 7 vol %). Laboratory degradation experiments can hence be used to further optimize process operations to limit degradation or screen for potential new adsorbents., (© 2023 Shell Global Solutions International B.V. ChemSusChem published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.)