Pretreated olivine as tar removal catalyst for biomass gasifiers: investigation using naphthalene as model biomass tar

Synthesis of Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Chemistry, Catalysts, and Engineering

“…92,93 The operating conditions for using dolomite catalyst are temperatures from 700 to 100°C and space times from 0.007 to 7 s. 56 Other nonmetallic oxide catalysts used for this reaction include MgO, 87 CaO, 87 and olivine (a magnesium aluminosilicate). 58,94,95 Ni-based catalysts are used industrially for steam reforming of naphtha and methane, 96,97 so it is not surprising that Nibased catalysts have proven to be very effective for hot gas conditioning of biomass gasification product gases. Ni-based catalysts have a high activity for tar destruction, methane reforming, and have some WGS activity.…”

Characterization and evaluation of Ni/SiO2 catalysts for hydrogen production and tar reduction from catalytic steam pyrolysis-reforming of refuse derived fuel

“…For example Abu El-Rub et al [63], used naphthalene and phenol as tar model compounds to measure tar reduction during the reforming process, using different catalyst types. Devi and collaborators [64], used naphthalene as a tar model compound, with olivine as the catalyst in order to improve the naphthalene conversion. Considering this, the reduction of naphthalene can be used as a measure of the efficiency of the prepared catalysts.…”

Evaluation of different oxygen carriers for biomass tar reforming (I): Carbon deposition in experiments with toluene

“…Because of the complex composition of real tar, several researchers have studied tar decomposition reactions using biomass tar model compounds such as: anthracene [25], benzene [25][26][27][28][29][30][31], cyclohexane [32], 1-methyl-naphthalene [26,33], naphthalene [25,27,28,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45], n-heptane [26,[46][47][48], phenol [49], pyrene [25] and toluene [10, 11, 25-28, 31, 50-57].…”