Development of a 5kWth internally circulating fluidized bed reactor containing quartz sand for continuously-fed coal-coke gasification and a beam-down solar concentrating system

Nobuyuki Gokon, Satoshi Kumaki, Yosuke Miyaguchi, Selvan Bellan, Tatsuya Kodama and Hyunseok Cho

Energy, 2019, vol. 166, issue C, 1-16

Abstract: The operational mode of a batch-type fluidized bed reactor containing quartz sand and coal-coke particles was tested under xenon arc lamp (Xe-light) illumination to develop processes for the continuous feeding and gasification of coke particles in the quartz sand fluidized bed. This paper focuses on the fluidizing, heating, and steam gasification performances of a windowed internally circulating fluidized bed reactor. The operational modes explored in this study were: (1) elevated temperature processes associated with the use of Xe-light radiation to reach gasification temperatures, and, (2) the gasification process driving steam gasification at high-temperatures, working with stream gasification of continuously-fed coal-coke. The gasification performances were used to evaluate the performance of quartz sand as a thermal-transfer/sensible heat-storage medium. The peak rate of gas production was greatly enhanced for the high volume fraction of coal-coke. In addition, the light-to-energy conversion rate of 11.0–13.2% and carbon conversion rate up to 80% were reached in the simplified distributor structure of gasification reactor.

Keywords: Solar reactor; Fluidized bed; Coal cokes; Steam gasification; Thermal storage; Beam-down optics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.10.036

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