심냉법을 이용한 산소 제조 기술은 지난 한 세기 동안 사용되어 왔으나 에너지 효율의 문제가 제기 되고 있으며, 최근에는 이온전도성 분리막을 이용한 산소 제조 기술이 효율적으로 산소를 제조할 수 있는 대안으로 대두되고 있다. 이 온전도성 분리막을 산소 연소 공정에 적용하기 위해서는 높은 산소투과능과 이산화탄소에 대한 내성이 필요하다. Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ와 같이 기존에 잘 알려진 조성의 분리막은 높은 산소 투과성능을 나타내지만 이산화탄소에 대한 내성이 낮다. 이를 개선하기 위해 본 연구에서는 이산화탄소 내성을 가지는 Sm0.3Sr0.7Cu0.2Fe0.8O3-δ과 Ce0.8Sm0.2O2-δ으로 이상 분리막(dual phase)을 제조하였다. 제조된 분리막의 특성을 분석하고, 헬륨 및 이산화탄소 조건에서 산소투과 실험을 진행하였다.

Fossil fuel combustion generates large amount of green house gas and it was considered major emission source causingglobal warming. For reducing green house gas, renewable energy resources have been emerged as an alternative energy.Among those resources, waste has been considered major resource as one of renewable energy, but it has been not utilizedsufficiently. In Korea, there are lots of efforts to utilize sewage sludge as one of renewable energy resources due to wasteto energy project of government. In this paper, sewage sludge was utilized as main fuel in order to recover heat energysource using oxy-fuel combustion in 30KWth circulating fluidized bed (CFB) pilot plant. Firstly, basic characteristics ofsewage sludge were analyzed and fuel feed rate was calculated by stoichiometry oxygen demand. For producing 30kwthermal energy in pilot plant, the feeding rate of sewage sludge was calculated as 13kg/hr. In oxy-fuel combustion, oxygeninjection rate was ranged from 21% to 40%. Fluidized material was more suitably circulated in which the rate of U/Umfwas calculated as 8 at 800oC. Secondly, Temperature and pressure gradients in circulation fluidized bed were comparedin case of oxy and air combustion. Temperature gradients was more uniformly depicted in case of 25% oxygen injectionwhen the value of excess oxygen was injected as 1.37. Combustion efficiency was greatest at the condition of 25% oxygeninjection rate. Also, the flue gas temperature was the highest at the condition of 25% oxygen injection rate. Lastly,combustion efficiency was presented in case of oxy and air combustion. Combustion efficiency was increased to 99.39%in case of 25% oxygen injection rate. In flue-gas composition from oxy-fuel combustion, nitrogen oxide was ranged from47ppm to 73ppm, and sulfur dioxide was ranged from 460ppm to 645ppm.

In recent years, the demand of renewable energy fuels has been increased in worldwide because the capacity of fossil fuel would be not affordable in the near decade. As one of renewable energy fuels, the production of sewage sludge would be gradually increased by year, and it would be over than 10million tons in 2015 in Korea. Since ocean dumping was inhibited due to London Convention with being in effective at the end of 2012 in Korea, the combustion of sewage sludge has been emerged as one of alternative technologies of waste to energy. Meanwhile, it would be necessary to apply the carbon capture & storage (CCS) technology to reduce carbon dioxide originated from waste sludge incineration. During oxy-fuel combustion, a combination of oxygen typically of greater than 95% purity and recycled flue gas is used for combustion of the fuel. By recycling the flue gas, a gas consisting mainly of CO₂ and water is generated, ready for sequestration without stripping of the CO₂ from the flue gas. In this study, the pilot test was conducted by a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) combustor consisting of a riser, a cyclone, a down-comer, and a loop-seal. The CFB combustor has a riser with an inner diameter of 0.15m and a height of 6.4m. The experimental test was carried out with waste sludge in 30kwth CFB combustor operating with oxy-fuel and typical air conditions. The optimum temperature for waste sludge incineration was determined as 800℃. Oxygen with carbon dioxide as a combustion air was fed into a riser and a loop-seal in pilot test bed. The oxygen rate as a combustion air was ranged from 21% to 30% to observe the condition of waste sludge oxy-fuel combustion. The temperature and pressure profile in CFB reactor were depicted in the condition of typical air and oxy-fuel combustion. The flue-gas from typical air and oxy-fuel combustion was analyzed to observe the trend of carbon dioxide and air pollutants emission such as CO, NOx, and SOx, respectively. The production of carbon dioxide was approximately 90% in flue-gas from waste sludge incineration with oxy-fuel condition.