Plasma enhanced catalytic reforming of biomass tar model compound to syngas

Development of Carbon-infiltrated Bio-char from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch

“…[16][17][18] Scrutinizing the properties of each biomass pyrolysis product, it is highly likely that bio-char can be used as a catalyst for decomposition of bio-tar, and which will increase the efficiency of biomass utilization. Studies on bio-char production [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and bio-tar catalytic decomposition, [26][27][28][29][30][31][32] have been conducted separately. The combination of biochar production and catalytic bio-tar decomposition to produce a material containing fixed carbon similar to that of coke has yet to be studied and explained.…”

Combination of plasmas and catalytic reactions for CO2 reforming of CH4 by dielectric barrier discharge process

“…Synthesis gas can be manufactured from several hydrocarbon feedstock such as natural gas, coal, petroleum coke, and residual oil [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. The CO 2 reforming of methane to syngas has become an interesting topic recently, because it offers some environmental benefits such as removing two greenhouse gases (CO 2 and CH 4 ) simultaneously [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. The ratio of H 2 /CO in product gases by this process is close to 1/1, which is appropriate for the production of Fischer-Tropsch liquid hydrocarbon and oxygenates.…”

“…Several technologies have been proposed for CO 2 reforming of CH 4 such as catalytic conversion, plasma conversion, and combination of catalyst and plasmas [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In the catalytic reforming of CO 2 and CH 4 , the carbon deposition, which leads to the deactivation of catalysts, is a big problem.…”

“…There have been several studies to find the anti-carbon deposition performance of catalysts by adding some promoters [9][10][11][12][13][14][15], by preparing better support materials [16,17] or by improving the conditions of catalyst preparation [18,19]. In another process for CO 2 reforming of CH 4 by plasmas, several plasma technologies such as thermal plasmas, dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), corona discharge, AC arc discharge and glow discharge have been investigated [2][3][4][5]. The plasma process showed several advantages such as high chemical reactivity, short reaction time and also low operating cost.…”

“…The plasma process showed several advantages such as high chemical reactivity, short reaction time and also low operating cost. Recently, to improve the conversion efficiency of plasma process, the combination of plasmas and heterogeneous catalysts for the CO 2 reforming of methane has attracted the increasing interest [2][3][4][5][6][7].…”