Energy production from steam gasification processes and parameters that contemplate in biomass gasifier - A review

Samarjeet Singh Siwal; Qibo Zhang; Changbin Sun; Sourbh Thakur; Vijai Kumar Gupta; Vijay Kumar Thakur

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122481

Energy production from steam gasification processes and parameters that contemplate in biomass gasifier - A review

Bioresour Technol. 2020 Feb:297:122481. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122481. Epub 2019 Nov 26.

Authors

Samarjeet Singh Siwal¹, Qibo Zhang², Changbin Sun¹, Sourbh Thakur³, Vijai Kumar Gupta⁴, Vijay Kumar Thakur⁵

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Metallurgy, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China.
² Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Metallurgy, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Cleaning Utilization in Yunnan Province, Kunming 650093, PR China. Electronic address: qibozhang@kust.edu.cn.
³ Center for Computational Materials Science, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia; School of Chemistry, Shoolini University, Solan 173212, Himachal Pradesh, India.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia.
⁵ Enhanced Composites and Structures Center, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK; Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh 201314, India.

PMID: 31796379
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122481

Abstract

The transformation of biomass using steam gasification is a chemical route to facilitate changes in organic or residue supported carbonaceous substances addicted to carbon mono-oxide, hydrogen including carbon-di-oxide, etc. However, to commercialize the method of steam gasification, the hurdles persist during the gasification as well as downstream processing. This article delivers a summary of the different approaches that are described in the previous studies to achieve H₂ refinement and adaptation within the gasifier system. These include advanced aspects in the research and development of biomass gasification (alike advancements under the gasification operation). The upshot of diverse operating conditions like steam flow rate, operating temperature, moisture content, gasifier agents, residence time, biomass to air, steam to biomass, equivalence ratio, etc. towards the execution of biomass gasifier. This review accomplishes that the interdependence of several issues must be considered in point to optimise the producer gas.

Keywords: Biomass; Energy; Gasifier system; Hydrogen production; Steam gasification.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomass
Carbon
Hydrogen*
Steam*
Temperature

Substances

Steam
Carbon
Hydrogen