Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Amini, Shahriar"
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Gas switching reforming (GSR) for power generation with CO2 capture: Process efficiency improvement studies
Nazir, Shareq Mohd; Cloete, Jan Hendrik; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper presents the process improvement studies of a combined cycle power plant integrated with a novel gas switching reforming (GSR) process for hydrogen production with integrated CO2 capture. The overall process is ... -
Gas Switching Reforming (GSR) for syngas production with integrated CO2 capture using iron-based oxygen carriers
Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Dahl, Paul Inge; Ugwu, Ambrose; Tolchard, Julian R; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The process behavior of a Gas Switching Reforming (GSR) reactor was studied using three different iron-based oxygen carrier materials: Iron-oxide on Alumina, Iron-Nickel oxide on Alumina and Iron-Ceria on Alumina. It was ... -
Gas switching reforming for flexible power and hydrogen production to balance variable renewables
Szima, Szabolcs; Nazir, Shareq Mohd; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar; Fogarasi, Szabolcs; Cormos, Ana-Maria; Cormos, Calin-Cristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Variablerenewableenergy(VRE)isexpectedtoplayamajorroleinthedecarbonizationoftheelectricitysector.However, decarbonization via VRE requires a fleet of flexible dispatchable plants with low CO2emissions tosupplycleanpowerduringtimes ... -
Gas Switching Reforming for syngas production with iron-based oxygen carrier-the performance under pressurized conditions
Ugwu, Ambrose; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Tolchard, Julian R; Dahl, Paul Inge; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)A four-stage Gas Switching Reforming for syngas production with integrated CO2 capture using an iron-based oxygen carrier was investigated in this study. The oxygen carrier was first reduced using dry methane, where high ... -
Gas switching technology: Economic attractiveness for chemical looping applications and scale up experience to 50 kWth
Ugwu, Ambrose; Arnaiz del Pozo, Carlos; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Nazir, Shareq Mohd; Kalendar, Nimet Uzun; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Szima, Szabolcs; Fogarasi, Szabolcs; Donat, Felix; van Diest, Geert; Cloete, Jan Hendrik; Jiménez Álvaro, Ángel; Albertsen, Knuth; Cormos, Ana-Maria; Cormos, Calin-Cristian; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Gas switching technology (GST) was introduced to facilitate operation and scale-up of pressurized chemical looping-based technologies thus bringing the expected benefits of reducing costs and energy penalty of CO2 capture. ... -
Grid independence behaviour of fluidized bed reactor simulations using the Two Fluid Model: Detailed parametric study
Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Johansen, Stein Tore; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This short communication builds on previous work on the grid independence behaviour of the Two Fluid Model in reactive bubbling fluidized bed simulations. Regarding hydrodynamic grid independence behaviour (the numerical ... -
Grid independence behaviour of fluidized bed reactor simulations using the Two Fluid Model: Effect of particle size
Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Johansen, Stein Tore; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)It is well known that particle size has a significant influence on the grid independence behaviour of fluidized bed reactor simulations carried out using the Two Fluid Model (TFM) approach. The general rule of thumb states ... -
Heat and mass transfer in gas-solid packed beds
Singhal, Arpit (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:137, Doctoral thesis, 2018)The present thesis probes the heat and mass transfer phenomena in packed bed of particles. The gap in literature for realistically packed dense particle packings is explored, following which a new methodology to study ... -
Hydrogen production by water splitting using gas switching technology
Ugwu, Ambrose; Donat, Felix; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Müller, Christoph; Albertsen, Knuth; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; van Diest, Geert; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study demonstrates a novel“Gas Switching Water Splitting (GSWS)”technology for production of pure H2with integrated CO2capture. The reactor concept is based on the chemical looping technology where an oxygencarrier ... -
Integration of chemical looping combustion for cost-effective CO2 capture from state-of-the-art natural gas combined cycles
Khan, Mohammed Nazeer Ul Hasan; Chiesa, Paolo; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a promising method for power production with integrated CO2 capture with almost no direct energy penalty. When integrated into a natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) plant, however, CLC ... -
Internally circulating fluidized-bed reactor for syngas production using chemical looping reforming
Osman, Mogahid; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Chemical looping reforming (CLR) is a promising method for achieving autothermal methane reforming without the energy penalty of an air separation unit that is required for partial oxidation (POX) or oxygen-blown autothermal ... -
Investigation into the effect of simulating a 3D cylindrical fluidized bed reactor on a 2D plane
Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Johansen, Stein Tore; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)2D planar simulations of 3D cylindrical fluidized bed reactors are routinely carried out in order to reduce computational costs. The error involved in this simplification is largely unknown, however, and this study was ... -
Mapping the operating performance of a novel internally circulating fluidized bed reactor applied to chemical looping combustion
Osman, Mogahid; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Chemical looping combustion is a promising technology for minimizing the energy penalty of CO2 capture. To accelerate the scale-up and commercialization of this technology for pressurized operation, the internally circulating ... -
Membrane-Assisted Chemical Switching Reforming for pure hydrogen production with integrated CO2 capture
Wassie, Solomon Assefa (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:217, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Concerns regarding the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on climate change have drawn substantial research efforts to develop new technologies that can mitigate or, if possible, eliminate anthropogenic emissions of ... -
Multiscale modelling of packed bed chemical looping reforming
Singhal, Arpit; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Quinta-Ferreira, Rosa; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)A comparison of reactive flows on two distinct scales is presented here (i) Particle resolved direct numerical simulation (PR-DNS), and (ii) 1D packed bed model. The PR-DNS geometry is meshed with polyhedral elements both ... -
On the choice of closure complexity in anisotropic drag closures for filtered Two Fluid Models
Cloete, Jan Hendrik; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Radl, Stefan; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Filtered Two Fluid Models (fTFMs) aim to enable accurate industrial-scale simulations of fluidized beds by means of closures accounting for the effects of bubbles and clusters. The present study aims to improve anisotropic ... -
Pathways to low-cost clean hydrogen production with gas switching reforming
Nazir, Shareq Mohd; Cloete, Jan Hendrik; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Gas switching reforming (GSR) is a promising technology for natural gas reforming with inherent CO2 capture. Like conventional steam methane reforming (SMR), GSR can be integrated with water-gas shift and pressure swing ... -
Performance evaluation of a complete Lagrangian KTGF approach for dilute granular flow modelling
Cloete, Schalk; Johansen, Stein Tore; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Finely resolved gas–solid flow simulations were carried out using an improved Lagrangian method known as the dense discrete phase model (DDPM). The DDPM differs from the traditional Eulerian two fluid model (TFM) approach ... -
Review of pressurized chemical looping processes for power generation and chemical production with integrated CO2 capture
Osman, Mogahid; Khan, Mohammed Nazeer Ul Hasan; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Chemical looping has great potential for reducing the energy penalty and associated costs of CO2 capture from fossil fuel-based power and chemical production while maintaining high efficiency. However, pressurized operation ... -
Review on reactor configurations for adsorption-based CO2 capture
Dhoke, Chaitanya; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Adsorption-based CO2 capture has enjoyed considerable research attention in recent years. Most of the research efforts focused on sorbent development to reduce the energy penalty. However, the use of suitable gas–solid ...