• Building the world's largest Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) unit 

      Haugen, Nils Erland L; Li, Zhenshan; Gouraud, Vincent; Bertholin, Stephane; Li, Weicheng; Larring, Yngve; Luo, Kun; Szlek, Andrzej; Flach, Todd; Langørgen, Øyvind; Liu, Xinglei; Yazdanpanah, Mahdi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The world's largest Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) demonstration unit is being built close to the city of Chengdu in China. The design and construction of the unit, as well as the coming testing, is done within the ...
    • CCS status – Input to the CSLF Technology Roadmap 2013 

      Langørgen, Øyvind; Hetland, Jens; Tangen, Grethe; Grimstad, Alv-Arne; Dillen, Menno; Lindeberg, Erik Gøsta Brun; Buddensiek, Maike-Liselotte (SINTEF Energi. Rapport;, Research report, 2013)
      The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) Technical Group has decided to update its Technology Roadmap from 2011 and to present this new roadmap at the 5th CSLF Ministerial Meeting in Houston, USA in November 2013. ...
    • Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane Using a Copper-based Oxygen Carrier in a 150 kW Reactor System 

      Langørgen, Øyvind; Saanum, Inge; Haugen, Nils Erland L (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Chemical looping combustion experiments have been conducted in the 150 kW CLC reactor at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim with good results. Methane was used as fuel and porous copper oxide based particles, with a bulk ...
    • The effect of turbulence on mass transfer in solid fuel combustion: RANS model 

      Karchniwy, Ewa Malgorzata; Haugen, Nils Erland L; Klimanek, Adam F.; Langørgen, Øyvind; Sladek, Slawomir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this paper, a kinetic-diffusion surface combustion model is examined. The model is modified such that two effects of turbulence are included: 1) enhancement of the mass transfer due to relative velocity between particles ...
    • Evaluation of CLC as a BECCS technology from tests on woody biomass in an auto-thermal 150-kW pilot unit 

      Langørgen, Øyvind; Saanum, Inge; Khalil, Roger Antoine; Haugen, Nils Erland L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In this work, woody biomass is converted by chemical looping combustion (CLC) in the auto-thermally operated 150-kW pilot unit at SINTEF Energy Research in Norway, using ilmenite as an oxygen carrier. The pilot unit consists ...
    • Negative CO2 Emissions with Chemical-Looping Combustion of Biomass – A Nordic Energy Research Flagship Project 

      Rydén, Magnus; Lyngfelt, Anders; Langørgen, Øyvind; Larring, Yngve; Brink, Anders; Teir, Sebastian; Havåg, Hallstein; Karmhagen, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The Nordic countries constitute a natural location for the development and deployment of Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Finland, Sweden and Denmark are world-leading with respect to heat and power ...
    • Oxy-fuel burner investigations for CO2 capture in cement plants 

      Carrasco-Maldonado, Francisco; Bakken, Jørn; Ditaranto, Mario; Haugen, Nils Erland L.; Langørgen, Øyvind; Grathwohl, Simon; Maier, Jörg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Oxy-fuel conditions may have a considerable influence on the cement production process. This paper presents the results of a first validation work aiming to model the combustion behavior under rich CO2 conditions. The ...
    • Profiting from CCS innovations: A study to measure potential value creation from CCS research and development 

      Størset, Sigmund Østtveit; Tangen, Grethe; Berstad, David Olsson; Eliasson, Peder; Hoff, Karl Anders; Langørgen, Øyvind; Munkejord, Svend Tollak; Roussanaly, Simon; Torsæter, Malin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Globally, large private and public funds are invested into CO2 capture and storage (CCS) research to provide the knowledge and technology required to mitigate CO2 emissions below a sustainable level. A pertinent question ...
    • Robust decision making analysis of BECCS (bio-CLC) in a district heating and cooling grid 

      Lindroos, Tomi; Rydén, Magnus; Langørgen, Øyvind; Pursiheimo, Esa; Tikkarainen, Toni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Additional investments to negative emission technologies, such as reforestation or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), are required to achieve Paris Agreement targets. Chemical-looping combustion of biomass ...
    • The EU-FP7 Project SUCCESS – Scale-up of Oxygen Carrier for Chemical Looping Combustion using Environmentally Sustainable Materials 

      Penthor, Stefan; Mattisson, Tobias; Adánez, Juan; Bertolin, Stéphane; Masi, Enrica; Larring, Yngve; Langørgen, Øyvind; Ströhle, Jochen; Snijkers, Frans; Geerts, Lieve; Albertsen, Knuth; Williams, Gareth; Bertsch, Otmar; Authier, Olivier; Dávila, Ytalo; Yazdanpanah, Mahdi; Pröll, Tobias; Lyngfelt, Anders; Hofbauer, Hermann (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The paper gives a high level overview of the work performed in the EU-FP7 funded project SUCCESS (Scale-up of oxygen carrier for chemical looping combustion using environmentally sustainable materials). The project is the ...
    • Thermodynamic assessment of an integrated MILD oxyfuel combustion power plant 

      Gladysz, Pawel; Stanek, Wojciech; Czarnowska, Lucyna; Wecel, Gabriel; Langørgen, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Three-dimensional unsteady numerical simulation of a 150 kWth full-loop chemical looping combustion pilot with biomass as fuel: A hydrodynamic investigation 

      Sun, Liyan; Masi, Enrica; Simonin, Olivier; Langørgen, Øyvind; Saanum, Inge; Haugen, Nils Erland L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A hydrodynamic model for a full Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) unit was established, and simulations performed using the code NEPTUNE_CFD, which is based on an Euler-Euler approach. The unit is a 150 kWth pilot constructed ...