Low-temperature steam gasification of wood using a two-stage gasification process to avoid bed agglomeration in a fluidized bed gasifier and tar problems

Seung-Ho Song, Jae-Kyoung Kim, Jong-Woo Kim, Chul-Woo Park and Joo-Sik Kim

Energy, 2025, vol. 328, issue C

Abstract: Steam gasification of wood was conducted using a two-stage gasification process with fluidized bed and tar cracking reactors connected in series. This research explores the possibility of producing a H2-rich syngas while avoiding bed agglomeration and tar problems at the same time. In the current study, a low fluidized bed temperature was performed with activated carbon as a tar removal additive. Experiments at a fluidized bed temperature of about 600 °C successfully produced low-tar and H2-rich syngases without any operational problems. When activated carbon was applied, the tar concentration in syngas sharply decreased from 3120 to 48–215 mg/Nm3 (reduction rate: 93.1–98.5 %). Activated carbon also increased syngas and H2 yields. The maximum syngas and H2 yields were 1.7 Nm3/kgdry_wood and 68 g/kgdry_wood, respectively. Further, with activated carbon, the condensed tar yield drastically decreased from 26.9 to 2.9–9.5 g/kgdry_wood. A long-term wood gasification was performed for 3 h to test the stability of the two-stage gasification operation. The syngas development was stable at this reaction time, and the H2 yield was still high at 47.2 g/kgdry_feed. Additionally, toluene, which can be used a fuel source, was the sole tar component produced in the 3-h gasification.

Keywords: Two-stage gasification; Wood; Bed agglomeration; Tar; Hydrogen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.136496

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