IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v289y2024ics0360544223034576.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Experimental investigation of sorted municipal solid wastes producer gas composition in an updraft fixed bed gasifier

Author

Listed:
  • Jančauskas, Adolfas
  • Striūgas, Nerijus
  • Zakarauskas, Kęstutis
  • Skvorčinskienė, Raminta
  • Eimontas, Justinas
  • Buinevičius, Kęstutis

Abstract

Three kinds of municipal solid waste (MSW) from mechanical biological treatment plants, i.e., Fraction after Drum Separator (FDS), Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) and Plastic Packaging Mixture (PPM), were investigated. These samples were gasified in fixed-bed updraft gasifier under allothermal (800 °C) air supply conditions. Two different air equivalence ratios (ER), i.e., 0.15 ± 0.02 and 0.21 ± 0.04 were created to determine the influence on MSW producer gas properties. Derivative thermogravimetry analysis shows the same volatile release temperatures (330 °C, 500 °C) for all tested MSW kinds. Chromatography analysis of MSW producer gas revealed that the reduction of ER from 0.21 to 0.15 increase the heating value of combustible gases. PPM producer gas contains the highest H2 content – 11.39 %. The highest tar content (47.44 g/m3) was measured in SRF producer gas and primarily consisted of benzene, toluene, naphthalene, and acenaphthylene. The results of the sorted MSW gasification experiments show that the allothermal updraft fixed-bed gasifier is suitable for the production of producer gas that can be used in gas engines.

Suggested Citation

  • Jančauskas, Adolfas & Striūgas, Nerijus & Zakarauskas, Kęstutis & Skvorčinskienė, Raminta & Eimontas, Justinas & Buinevičius, Kęstutis, 2024. "Experimental investigation of sorted municipal solid wastes producer gas composition in an updraft fixed bed gasifier," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 289(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:289:y:2024:i:c:s0360544223034576
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.130063
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544223034576
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2023.130063?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:289:y:2024:i:c:s0360544223034576. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.