Advanced simulation of biomass gasification in a fluidized bed reactor using ASPEN PLUS

Priyanka Kaushal and Rakesh Tyagi

Renewable Energy, 2017, vol. 101, issue C, 629-636

Abstract: Biomass gasification technology has improved over the years. However tar remains the bottleneck for gas cleaning, plant design and process modelling etc. Tar is a very complex material and its composition depends on many parameters like operating conditions, temperature, pressure, heating rate, oxygen carrying agent and reactor designs etc. While modelling tar, it is a common practice to either assume that gas is tar free or it is loaded over any heavy cyclic hydrocarbon. This is an over simplified approach. It is also a common assumption in literature that tar is inert and does not take part in reaction. The paper has taken into consideration both the challenges: it has defined tar and its cracking kinetics in the model.

Keywords: ASPEN PLUS; Model; Biomass gasification; Fluidized bed; Tar kinetics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.09.011

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