Gasifier selection, design and gasification of oil palm fronds with preheated and unheated gasifying air.
Bioresour Technol
; 126: 224-32, 2012 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-23073112
ABSTRACT
Oil palm frond biomass is abundantly available in Malaysia, but underutilized. In this study, gasifiers were evaluated based on the available literature data and downdraft gasifiers were found to be the best option for the study of oil palm fronds gasification. A downdraft gasifier was constructed with a novel height adjustment mechanism for changing the position of gasifying air and steam inlet. The oil palm fronds gasification results showed that preheating the gasifying air improved the volumetric percentage of H(2) from 8.47% to 10.53%, CO from 22.87% to 24.94%, CH(4) from 2.02% to 2.03%, and higher heating value from 4.66 to 5.31 MJ/Nm(3) of the syngas. In general, the results of the current study demonstrated that oil palm fronds can be used as an alternative energy source in the energy diversification plan of Malaysia through gasification, along with, the resulting syngas quality can be improved by preheating the gasifying air.
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Biotecnologia
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Óleos de Plantas
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Folhas de Planta
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Ar
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Gases
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Temperatura Alta
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En
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article