Catalytic activities of nickel, dolomite, and olivine for tar removal and H2-enriched gas production in biomass gasification process

Ahsanullah Soomro, Shiyi Chen, Shiwei Ma and Wenguo Xiang

Energy & Environment, 2018, vol. 29, issue 6, 839-867

Abstract: Tar content in gasification products is a serious problem for fuel gas utilization in downstream applications. Catalytic steam reforming of tar to syngas is a promising way for the removal of tar from the gas products. Nickel-based catalysts, dolomite, and olivine have been widely investigated for tar cracking and reforming by various researchers. This paper presents a review of biomass gasification, tar composition, and its elimination process by using the above three catalysts. This paper summarizes the knowledge in the published literature associated with tar elimination during the biomass gasification including discussion on the effects of different support, promoter on the catalytic performance. The aim of this paper is to collect information on the performance of above catalysts to make them accessible to readers within one paper. Comparative studies on these catalysts carried out by some researchers have also been presented here which show that the nickel-based catalyst is much more active than dolomite and olivine, but they are more expensive and can be also deactivated. Compared to olivine, the dolomite shows better catalytic performance with much higher gas yield and H 2 . Calcination of these catalysts improves the catalytic activities but the amount of coke deposited on the surface of the dolomite is reported higher than that of the olivine, which may be resulted from the different Fe amount of the catalyst.

Keywords: Biomass gasification; tar treatment; dolomite; olivine; nickel; H2-enriched gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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