High temperature air-blown woody biomass gasification model for the estimation of an entrained down-flow gasifier

Waste Manag. 2009 Jan;29(1):245-51. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2008.04.014. Epub 2008 Jul 23.

Abstract

A high temperature air-blown gasification model for woody biomass is developed based on an air-blown gasification experiment. A high temperature air-blown gasification experiment on woody biomass in an entrained down-flow gasifier is carried out, and then the simple gasification model is developed based on the experimental results. In the experiment, air-blown gasification is conducted to demonstrate the behavior of this process. Pulverized wood is used as the gasification fuel, which is injected directly into the entrained down-flow gasifier by the pulverized wood banner. The pulverized wood is sieved through 60 mesh and supplied at rates of 19 and 27kg/h. The oxygen-carbon molar ratio (O/C) is employed as the operational condition instead of the air ratio. The maximum temperature achievable is over 1400K when the O/C is from 1.26 to 1.84. The results show that the gas composition is followed by the CO-shift reaction equilibrium. Therefore, the air-blown gasification model is developed based on the CO-shift reaction equilibrium. The simple gasification model agrees well with the experimental results. From calculations in large-scale units, the cold gas is able to achieve 80% efficiency in the air-blown gasification, when the woody biomass feedrate is over 1000kg/h and input air temperature is 700K.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Air
  • Bioelectric Energy Sources
  • Biomass*
  • Equipment Design
  • Flow Injection Analysis
  • Gases / chemistry*
  • Incineration / instrumentation*
  • Incineration / methods*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Wood*

Substances

  • Gases