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Article

High Quality Syngas Production with Supercritical Biomass Gasification Integrated with a Water–Gas Shift Reactor

by
M. M. Sarafraz
1,
Mohammad Reza Safaei
2,3,*,
M. Jafarian
1,
Marjan Goodarzi
4,5,* and
M. Arjomandi
1
1
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
2
Division of Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
3
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
4
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77705, USA
5
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Environment Research Group, Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2019, 12(13), 2591; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132591
Submission received: 30 May 2019 / Revised: 27 June 2019 / Accepted: 1 July 2019 / Published: 5 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Advances in Liquid Biofuels)
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Abstract

A thermodynamic assessment is conducted for a new configuration of a supercritical water gasification plant with a water–gas shift reactor. The proposed configuration offers the potential for the production of syngas at different H2:CO ratios for various applications such as the Fischer–Tropsch process or fuel cells, and it is a path for addressing the common challenges associated with conventional gasification plants such as nitrogen dilution and ash separation. The proposed concept consists of two reactors, R1 and R2, where the carbon containing fuel is gasified (in reactor R1) and in reactor R2, the quality of the syngas (H2:CO ratio) is substantially improved. Reactor R1 is a supercritical water gasifier and reactor R2 is a water–gas shift reactor. The proposed concept was modelled using the Gibbs minimization method with HSC chemistry software. Our results show that the supercritical water to fuel ratio (SCW/C) is a key parameter for determining the quality of syngas (molar ratio of H2:CO) and the carbon conversion reaches 100%, when the SWC/C ratio ranges between two and 2.5 at 500–1000 °C.
Keywords: supercritical water gasification; water–gas shift reactor; biomass gasification; syngas quality supercritical water gasification; water–gas shift reactor; biomass gasification; syngas quality
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Sarafraz, M.M.; Safaei, M.R.; Jafarian, M.; Goodarzi, M.; Arjomandi, M. High Quality Syngas Production with Supercritical Biomass Gasification Integrated with a Water–Gas Shift Reactor. Energies 2019, 12, 2591. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132591

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Sarafraz MM, Safaei MR, Jafarian M, Goodarzi M, Arjomandi M. High Quality Syngas Production with Supercritical Biomass Gasification Integrated with a Water–Gas Shift Reactor. Energies. 2019; 12(13):2591. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132591

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Sarafraz, M. M., Mohammad Reza Safaei, M. Jafarian, Marjan Goodarzi, and M. Arjomandi. 2019. "High Quality Syngas Production with Supercritical Biomass Gasification Integrated with a Water–Gas Shift Reactor" Energies 12, no. 13: 2591. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132591

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Sarafraz, M. M., Safaei, M. R., Jafarian, M., Goodarzi, M., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). High Quality Syngas Production with Supercritical Biomass Gasification Integrated with a Water–Gas Shift Reactor. Energies, 12(13), 2591. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132591

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