The world's largest chemical looping combustion (CLC) demonstration facility was completed recently at Dongfang Boiler Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC), with a thermal power of up to 4 megawatts. The facility lays a solid foundation for future experiments and research, and brings the China-Europe Emission Reduction Solutions (CHEERS) Project one step closer to industrial large-scale de-carbonization.
As a new piece of low-cost carbon capture technology, CLC technology costs less than one-third of traditional carbon capture technology. The research results of the project can be applied to large-scale carbon capture in high-emission industries, such as electricity, heating, petrochemicals, chemicals, and oil and gas, providing significant environmental and social benefits.
The facility, bringing CLC technology from laboratory to industrial large-scale de-carbonization, is a key piece of CHEERS project. This project is a collaborative research and an important development project in the field of energy technology between China and the EU, jointly funded by China's Ministry of Science and Technology's key R&D program and the EU Commission's Horizon 2020 program, in a bid to provide a new technical solution for the high energy consumption and cost of carbon capture in industrial combustion.
(Executive editor: Xie Yunxiao)
