Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Zaabout, Abdelghafour"
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An advancement in CO2 utilization through novel gas switching dry reforming
Ugwu, Ambrose; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This study is the first experimental demonstration of CO2 capture and utilization for dry methane reforming using a novel chemical looping concept, “Gas Switching Dry Reforming” (GSDR) to produce syngas. The new reactor ... -
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage in Methanol Production Using a Dry Reforming-Based Chemical Looping Technology
Ugwu, Ambrose; Osman, Mogahid; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This further investigates the concept of gas switching dry reforming (GSDR) that efficiently converts the two major greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) into a valuable product (syngas) for gas-to-liquid (GTL) syntheses. The ... -
Combined Syngas and Hydrogen Production using Gas Switching Technology
Ugwu, Ambrose; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Donat, Felix; van Diest, Geert; Albertsen, Knuth; Müller, Christoph; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper focuses on the experimental demonstration of a three-stage GST (gas switching technology) process (fuel, steam/CO2, and air stages) for syngas production from methane in the fuel stage and H2/CO production in ... -
Comparison of phenomenological and fundamental modelling approaches for predicting fluidized bed reactor performance
Cloete, Schalk; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Johansen, Stein Tore; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Two approaches to modelling fluidized bed reactors were evaluated and compared in this work: a phenomenological 1D approach based on empirical closures and a more fundamental 2D approach based on computational fluid dynamics ... -
Demonstration of Swing adsorption cluster concept (SARC) for CO2 capture
Dhoke, Chaitanya (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:148, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Adsorption-based post-combustion CO2 capture is enjoying significant research attention due to its wide applicability within the power and industrial sectors and its ability to retrofit existing infrastructure. Important ... -
Experimental Demonstration of a Novel Gas Switching Combustion Reactor for Power Production with Integrated CO2 Capture
Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Johansen, Stein Tore; Annaland, MV; Gallucci, F; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This paper experimentally demonstrates the feasibility of a novel gas switching combustion (GSC) reactor as an alternative to the traditional chemical looping combustion (CLC) process for power production with integrated ... -
Experimental demonstration of pressurized chemical looping combustion inan internally circulating reactor for power production with integrated CO2capture
Osman, Mogahid; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study presents an experimental demonstration of pressurized chemical looping combustion (CLC) in an internally circulating reactor (ICR). The ICR concept is a novel alternative to the conventional interconnected ... -
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 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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sorbents screening for post-combustion CO2 capture via combined temperature and pressure swing adsorption
Dhoke, Chaitanya; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Krishnamurthy, Shreenath; Seo, Hwimin; Luz, Ignacio; Soukri, Mustapha; Park, Yong-ki; Blom, Richard; Amini, Shahriar; Zaabout, Abdelghafour (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Adsorption-based post-combustion CO2 capture is enjoying significant research attention due to its potential for significant reductions in energy penalty, cost and environmental impact. Recent sorbent development work has ... -
Study of the Cost Reductions Achievable from the Novel SARC CO2 Capture Concept Using a Validated Reactor Model
Dhoke, Chaitanya; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Amini, Shahriar; Zaabout, Abdelghafour (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)New process concepts, such as the swing adsorption reactor cluster (SARC) CO2 capture process, are often techno-economically investigated using idealized modeling assumptions. This study quantifies the impact of this ... -
The effect of frictional pressure, geometry and wall friction on the modelling of a pseudo-2D bubbling fluidised bed reactor
Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Johansen, Stein Tore; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; van Sint Annaland, Martin; Gallucci, Fausto; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The two fluid model (TFM) closed by the kinetic theory of granular flows (KTGF) has been developed to a high level of maturity over the past three decades. However, significant uncertainties still remain about the influence ... -
The generality of the standard 2D TFM approach in predicting bubbling fluidized bed hydrodynamics
Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Johansen, Stein Tore; Annaland, MV; Gallucci, F; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Hydrodynamic simulations of a pseudo-2D bubbling fluidized bed were carried out and compared to experiments conducted over a wide range of flow conditions. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the generality of ... -
The swing adsorption reactor cluster (SARC) for post combustion CO2 capture: Experimental proof-of-principle
Dhoke, Chaitanya; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Seo, Hwimin; Park, Yong-ki; Blom, Richard; Amini, Shahriar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper presents the first experimental demonstration of the novel swing adsorption reactor cluster (SARC) for post combustion CO2 capture. The SARC concept combines a temperature and vacuum swing for sorbent regeneration. ...