Empirical Design, Construction, and Experimental Test of a Small-Scale Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactor

Carlos Vargas-Salgado, Elías Hurtado-Pérez, David Alfonso-Solar and Anders Malmquist
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado: Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Elías Hurtado-Pérez: Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
David Alfonso-Solar: Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería Energética (IUIIE), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Anders Malmquist: Department of Energy Technology Heat and Power Division, Royal Institute of Technology—KTH, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-22

Abstract: The methods currently used for designing a fluidized bed reactor in gasification plants do not meet an integrated methodology that optimizes all the different parameters for its sizing and operational regime. In the case of small-scale (several tens of kWs biomass gasifiers), this design is especially complex, and, for this reason, they have usually been built in a very heuristic trial and error way. In this paper, an integrated methodology tailoring all the different parameters for the design and sizing of a small-scale fluidized bed gasification plants is presented. Using this methodology, a 40 kWth biomass gasification reactor was designed, including the air distribution system. Based on this design, with several simplified assumptions, a reactor was built and commissioned. Results from the experimental tests using this gasifier are also presented in this paper. As a result, it can be said the prototype works properly, and it produces syngas able to produce thermal energy or even electricity.

Keywords: biomass; gasification; syngas; bubbling fluidized bed; renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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