Syngas production from palm kernel shell and polyethylene waste blend in fluidized bed catalytic steam co-gasification process

Reza Alipour Moghadam, Suzana Yusup, Yoshimitsu Uemura, Bridgid Lai Fui Chin, Hon Loong Lam and Ahmed Al Shoaibi

Energy, 2014, vol. 75, issue C, 40-44

Abstract: Energy from renewable source is expected to complement the energy derived from fossil fuel resources. Gasification is a versatile thermochemical process for solid waste fuel conversion. In the current paper, syngas production from palm kernel shell (PKS) and polyethylene waste blend in a catalytic steam gasification process is studied. In order to acquire the optimum condition of syngas production, the effect of main variables such as reaction temperature, steam/feedstock (S/F) ratio, polyethylene waste/biomass (P/B) ratio on syngas production was investigated and optimized via Taguchi design of experiment approach. Under the optimized condition of 800 °C, P/B ratio: 0.3 w/w and S/F ratio: 1 w/w, the total syngas yield and hydrogen yield achieved are 422.40 g syngas/kg feedstock and 135.27 g H2/kg feedstock, respectively.

Keywords: Biomass; Energy; Hydrogen; Gasification; Syngas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.04.062

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