/kg biomass (dry basis) specific dry gas production, 44.5% cold gas efficiency and 68.4% carbon conversion efficiency were …/kg biomass (dry basis) specific dry gas production, 49.8% cold gas efficiency and 75.5% carbon conversion efficiency were …

Sustainable biomass exploitation for combined heat and power (CHP) generation is fundamental to address concerns about … demands exclusively through renewable resources. A layout of a hybrid micro-gas turbine-solarplant fed by biomass from … agriculture products (olive pits) is modelled. It provides the coupling between a gasifier, dedicated to the biomass conversion …

Pongamia residue (shells) is the byproduct from the biodiesel processing industry, which is a lignocellulosic biomass … biomass. Shell pellets of 17 mm and 11.5 mm diameter and length in the range of 10–60 mm were gasified in a 20 kWe downdraft …

Downdraft gasifier is a preferable method for carrying out biomass gasification because the produced gas has viable … efficiency, biomass consumption rate, and specific gasification rate. The thermal integration unit also improved gasification …

small–medium scale plants including a realistic biomass gasification model. The model provides five different configurations … types of biomass, operating conditions and configurations. It has been applied in the case study of the ST-2 polygeneration … assessing the performance of trigeneration plants using several types of biomass and enables meaningful comparisons to be made …

achieved by immediate implementation of biomass co-firing in nearly all coal-fired power plants with minimum modifications and … the most efficient means of power generation from biomass, and it thus offers CO2 avoidance cost lower than that for CO2 … with the option of direct co-firing of biomass in pulverizing mills to compare their operational merits and cost advantages …

Fundamental pyrolysis and combustion behaviors for several types of biomass are tested by a thermo-gravimetric analyzer …. The main compositions of cellulose and lignin contents for several types of biomass are analyzed chemically. Based on the … main composition results obtained, the experimental results for the actual biomass samples are compared with those for the …

Energy conversion systems based on biomass utilisation are particularly interesting because of their contribution to … the limitation of global CO2 emissions; within the possible methods for energy-based biomass utilisation, thermal … simple, but it considers chemical species typically encountered by biomass gasifiers, and was tested against published …

A critical review is presented of moving bed biomass gasifier systems presently commercially available or under …. Catalysed by the EC JOULE and AIR programmes, a rather spectacular increase in interest in biomass gasification technology …