Gasification of Biomass

Abstract

Gasification is an indirect combustion of solid and liquid biomass by converting them to combustive syngas. Gasification is an alternative process for the traditional combustion, in which the emission of dust and toxic gases can be minimized. In this chapter, a comparison of these two biomass-to-heat conversion processes applied on biomass is presented in term of environmental impacts and technological benefits with a hope to provide readers a basic view of choices. Gasification is classified as in term of gasification agents, non-catalytic and catalytic process, and plasma assisted process. Popular types of gasification equipment, aka gasifiers, are introduced with working principles, through which the advantages and weakness of technology are briefly discussed.

Systematic review on the energy conversion efficiency of biomass-based Fischer-Tropsch plants

“…The first point also influences negatively the representativeness of our data in terms of technological options available for bio-FT plants. For example, several gasifier types, such as rotary drum, plasma, updraft fixed bed, and cross draft fixed bed [50] were not found in the reviewed studies. Regarding the second point, all observations from each study were considered to avoid subjective choices by the reviewers.…”