Plasma catalysis, the combination of non‐thermal plasma and catalyst, is a promising approach for optimizing chemical conversions as the removal of gas trace components. The various technological opportunities for the generation of atmospheric non‐thermal plasma combined with the variety of usable catalysts result in a huge amount of different experimental approaches. The aim of the presented review is to give an overview of plasma catalytic reactor designs currently discussed in literature as well as to point out technological differences and potential for up‐scaling.
This work extensively studies the thermodynamics of air blown autothermal wood gasification at adiabatic conditions. To this end, the software package HSC Chemistry (R) was used to determine the composition of the synthesis gas at thermodynamic equilibrium. This software operates on the basis of Gibb's energy minimization. In the model, dry and ash-free wood has been represented by CH1.O-44(0.66). Dry air has been modeled as a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and argon. As the calculations were carried out with respect to adiabatic conditions, it was necessary to determine the adiabatic flame temperature via beat and mass balances. This approach of adopting adiabatic conditions, though generally not taken into consideration in thermodynamic studies, is seen as beneficial, providing additional information with regard to the gasifier operating point. A sensitivity analysis was conducted. The influence of parameters; like equivalence ratio, water content of wood fuel and air preheating on adiabatic flame temperature and cold gas efficiency is discussed. For air at ambient temperature, the highest cold gas efficiency is achieved with an equivalence ratio of about 0.28. This was dependent to some small degree on the water content of the fuel wood. With increased air preheating, the maximum cold gas efficiency is increased and shifted to lower equivalence ratios. For wet wood, it transpired to be more efficient to use the sensible beat from the synthesis gas for drying of the fuel rather than preheating of the air. Finally, calculated values are compared to measurements from a circulating fluidised bed gasifier
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