A tube furnace(TF) and thermogravimetric analyzer(TGA) were used to investigate the indirect sulfation of limestone under O2/H2O combustion compared with O2/N2 and O2/CO2 combustion.It focused on the effects of combustion atmosphere and steam concentration on the calcium conversion ratio of the limestone.Besides
the sulfated products were collected for X-ray fluorescence(XRF)
X-ray powder diffraction(XRD)
pore structure characteristics and scanning electron microscopy(SEM) analysis.The results indicate that the indirect sulfation reaction has a negligible difference at the kinetically-controlled stage under different atmosphere but it is greatly enhanced at the diffusion-controlled stage under O2/H2O atmosphere compared with O2/N2 and O2/CO2 atmosphere.This is due to the fact that the presence of steam promotes the solid-state diffusion in the product layer.Besides
the calcium conversion ratio has no obvious increase when increasing the concentration of steam under O2/H2O atmosphere.