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Chemical Looping Processes

Fundamentals, Current Status, and Future Perspectives

  • 1st Edition - December 5, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Nader Mahinpey
  • Language: English

Chemical Looping Processes: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference for researchers involved in chemical looping processes. The book p… Read more

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Description

Chemical Looping Processes: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Future Perspectives is a comprehensive reference for researchers involved in chemical looping processes. The book provides a systematic grasp of the fundamental principles underlying chemical looping and its various applications in conversion and emissions control. It presents recent advancements in chemical looping technologies, current emerging trends, and future outlooks to address the challenges for technology commercialization. Each chapter displays the principles of the specific process, describing its thermodynamics, kinetics, oxygen carrier development, and reactor specifications and design.

Finally, application details and benefits are shown, along with faced challenges such as process optimization and how they are addressed. Future trends round out this edition.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive understanding of the different chemical looping processes in a single source
  • Offers up-to-date information on recent advancements in different aspects of chemical looping such as thermodynamics, development of oxygen carriers, reactor, design, and process optimization
  • Informs about current successful deployment of small and pilot-scale studies, giving insights into the implementation of chemical looping technologies
  • Aligns with Elsevier's Energy with Purpose strategy by providing an in-depth exploration of innovative and sustainable chemical looping technologies
  • Offers insights into potential applications and benefits

Readership

Researchers in industry and academia, (chemical) engineers, and environmental scientists working on carbon capture and sequestration for environmental sustainability, energy transition, hydrogen production, power generation, chemicals production, and low-cost/waste materials utilization

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Section I: Chemical Looping for CO2 Capture

2. Chemical looping combustion for gaseous fuels

3. Chemical looping combustion for liquid fuels

4. Chemical looping combustion for solid fuels: in situ gasification chemical looping combustion and chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling

5. Pressurized chemical looping combustion

6. Oxygen carrier-aided combustion

Section II: Chemical Looping for Hydrogen Production

7. Chemical looping partial oxidation: chemical looping reforming

8. Chemical looping partial oxidation: chemical looping gasification

9. Chemical looping for hydrogen sulfide utilization for hydrogen and sulfur recovery

​​​​​​​Section III: Chemical Looping for Value-Added Chemicals Production

10. Chemical looping with carbon dioxide/water splitting

11. Chemical looping air separation

12. Chemical looping oxidative coupling

13. Chemical looping ammonia production

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 5, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Nader Mahinpey

Professor Mahinpey is currently an Industrial Research Chair in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Schulich School of Engineering Chair at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research activities focus on promoting research programs in the areas of clean energy and green engineering. An understanding of global energy usage patterns, energy conservation, and the environmental impacts associated with the production and use of energy are very important in order to achieve sustainable development. Energy and environment have become the two paramount themes in his research group. His current research interests and expertise originate from the application of chemical engineering in energy and environment, including areas such as renewable energy, biofuel and bioenergy, gasification, pyrolysis, biochemical conversion, and reaction engineering.

Affiliations and expertise
Industrial Research Chair, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Schulich School of Engineering Chair, University of Calgary, Canada

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