Supercritical water gasification of microalga Chlorella PTCC 6010 for hydrogen production: Box-Behnken optimization and evaluating catalytic effect of MnO2/SiO2 and NiO/SiO2

Roudabeh Samiee-Zafarghandi, Javad Karimi-Sabet, Mohammad Ali Abdoli and Abdolreza Karbassi

Renewable Energy, 2018, vol. 126, issue C, 189-201

Abstract: In this paper, supercritical water gasification was used as a thermochemical conversion technology to produce gaseous products from marine microalgae. The Response Surface Methodology based on Box–Behnken design was selected for modeling and optimizing the effects of variables comprising temperature, microalgae loading and reaction time on gaseous product's composition especially hydrogen generation. The most important variable affecting H2 production was temperature followed by reaction time and microalgal biomass loading. So, the highest amount of 21.1 mol% H2 was obtained during SCWG of 1.4 wt% microalgal biomass at 405 °C for 45min. At near critical water condition, the effect of two metal-oxide-supported catalysts (NiO/SiO2 and MnO2/SiO2) with different catalyst loadings (50, 75, 100 and 200 wt%) on gas production revealed that, 100 wt% loading of MnO2/SiO2 had the maximum catalytic activity. Gasification at optimum condition with 100 wt% MnO2/SiO2 resulted in maximum hydrogen selectivity and gasification efficiency of 41.5% and 28.6%, respectively.

Keywords: supercritical water gasification; Microalgae; Response surface methodology; Hydrogen production; Optimization; Catalyst (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.03.043

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