Reaction of steam with cellulose in a fluidized bed using concentrated sunlight

Jean P. Murray and Edward A. Fletcher

Energy, 1994, vol. 19, issue 10, 1083-1098

Abstract: Steam gasification of cellulose at high temperatures can yield synthesis gas in a process that stores and transports highly concentrated solar energy. We have characterized the composition of the product gas in the temperature range 1050–1600 K in opaque and transparent fluidized-bed reactors. Bed material was either a pure tabular alumina or a crushed platinum-on-alumina catalyst. In both cases, the carbon present in the cellulose feedstock was well converted to a gaseous product. However, in the tabular alumina bed, the product gas had the high hydrocarbon and low hydrogen content characteristic of a rapid or flash pyrolysis process.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(94)90097-3

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