Chemical-looping technology is one of the promising CO2 capture technologies. It generates a CO2 enriched flue gas, which will greatly benefit CO2 capture, utilization or sequestration. Both chemical-looping combustion (CLC) and chemical-looping gasification (CLG) have the potential to be used to generate power, chemicals, and liquid fuels. Chemical-looping is an oxygen transporting process using oxygen carriers. Recently, attention has focused on solid fuels such as coal. Coal chemical-looping reactions are more complicated than gaseous fuels due to coal properties (like mineral matter) and the complex reaction pathways involving solid fuels. The mineral matter/ash and sulfur in coal may affect the activity of oxygen carriers. Oxygen carriers are the key issue in chemical-looping processes. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) has been widely used for the development of oxygen carriers (e.g., oxide reactivity). Two proposed processes for the CLC of solid fuels are in-situ Gasification Chemical-Looping Combustion (iG-CLC) and Chemical-Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU). The objectives of this review are to discuss various chemical-looping processes with coal, summarize TGA applications in oxygen carrier development, and outline the major challenges associated with coal chemical-looping in iG-CLC and CLOU. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 10606

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The effectiveness of hydrogen-permselective palladium membrane reactors for non-oxidative methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) over 4 wt% Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts was investigated as a function of weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) at 700 °C and atmospheric pressure. CH4 conversion and aromatic product yield decrease with increasing WHSV from 750 to 9000 cm 3 gcat -1 h -1 . C6H6 is the main C-containing product at and below 3000 cm 3 gcat -1 h -1 whereas C2H4 dominates the C-product distribution at higher WHSVs. Due to selective removal of H2 from the reaction products in catalytic membrane reactors, C6H6 yield is significantly improved over the whole WHSV range compared to those obtained in fixed-bed reactors. H2 recovery is strongly influenced by WHSV as it decreases from 48.3% at 750 cm 3 gcat -1 h -1 to 6.8% at 9000 cm 3 gcat -1 h -1 . There exists a trade-off between catalytic activity and H2 recovery, which results in the maximum enhancement (~360%) in C6H6 yield at 3000 cm 3 gcat -1 h -1 . At this intermediate space velocity, the largest concentration of H2 is found in the retentate stream and helps alleviate coke accumulation particularly on HZSM-5. Carbon is deposited on the inner surface of the membrane reactor portion in contact with the catalyst bed and transports to the outer surface, thus causing H2 permeability to decrease over the 15-h reaction period.Palladium membrane reactors significantly improve C 6 H 6 yield from CH 4 dehydroaromatization on Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts over a wide range of space velocity.