The University of Utah is pleased to announce the 5^th International Conference on Chemical Looping, to be held at the Chateaux at Deer Valley Hotel in Park City, Utah 24-27 September 2018.

The chemical looping concept is based on the use of materials with oxidation-reduction capabilities that can either oxidize or reduce fuel. The required oxygen to convert fuel is provided by a redox material, eliminating the need of conventional air separation units. The process is being developed to provide clean and efficient energy production solutions such as combustion with inherent CO₂ capture, hydrogen production, gasification, reforming and waste disposal.

Carbonate looping is an efficient post combustion CO₂ capture technology with a low energy demand and CO₂ mitigation cost compared to other post combustion CCS processes. CO₂ contained in the flue gas is absorbed by carbon carrier (solid sorbent) and released in a regenerator.

Interest in and research on chemical looping processes continues to grow. Research in recent years has focused on oxygen/carbon carrier materials, reactor concepts, potential applications and emission control. Chemical looping is being investigated through a combination of fundamental lab-scale studies, operation of pilot plants at different scales, system modeling and reactor simulation. The 5^th International Conference on Chemical Looping welcomes presentations on all these aspects of chemical looping.

The 1^st International Conference on Chemical Looping was hosted by Dr. Thierry Gauthier of IFP in Lyon, France in 2010. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Epple hosted the 2^nd conference at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany in 2012. Profs. Carl Linderholm and Anders Lyngfelt were responsible for the 3^rd conference at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2014. Prof. Laihong Shen of Southeast University hosted the 4^th conference in Nanjing, China in 2016.