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Gasification of Spruce Wood Chips in a 1.5 MW th Fluidised Bed Reactor

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  • Fabio Montagnaro

    (Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy)

  • Lucio Zaccariello

    (Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy)

Abstract

Production of syngas from the gasification of a biomass is attracting attention with an eye to the concepts of circularity, sustainability, and recent needs, triggered by socio-political events, to increase the level of self-sufficiency of energy sources for a given community. This manuscript reports on the gasification of spruce wood chips in a demonstration fluidised bed gasifier (1.5 MW th , height of 5.40 m, internal diameter of 1.2 m), with 0.2–0.4 mm olivine inventory (1000 kg). Gasification was carried out in air, at four different values of equivalence ratio (from 27% to 36%). The bed was fluidised at about 0.6 m/s, and the bed temperature resulted in the range of about 960–1030 °C as a function of the different tests. A mass flow rate of biomass in the range of about 360–480 kg/h (as a function of the different tests) was fed to the fluidised bed gasifier. Syngas lower heating value, specific mass and energetic yield, and chemical composition, were reported along with data on the production of elutriated fines. Moreover, tar compounds were collected, quantified and chemically speciated. The effect of the equivalence ratio on the main process parameter was critically discussed, proposing useful analytical relationships for the prediction of syngas lower heating value, tar mass flow rate and chemical composition.

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  • Fabio Montagnaro & Lucio Zaccariello, 2022. "Gasification of Spruce Wood Chips in a 1.5 MW th Fluidised Bed Reactor," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(16), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:16:p:5883-:d:887572
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