Staged Catalytic Gasification/Steam Reforming of Pyrolysis Oil

Rossum van, Guus and Kersten, Sascha R.A. and Swaaij van, Wim P.M. (2009) Staged Catalytic Gasification/Steam Reforming of Pyrolysis Oil. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 48 (12). pp. 5857-5866. ISSN 0888-5885

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Abstract:	Gasification/steam reforming of pyrolysis oil was studied in a staged reactor concept, which consisted of an inert fluidized bed and a catalytic fixed bed. Methane and C2−C3 free syngas is produced at a single temperature around 800 °C at atmospheric pressure. By lowering the temperature of the fluidized bed (432−500 °C), its function is changed from a gasifier to an evaporator, and in this way the subsequent catalyst bed actually sees vaporized pyrolysis oil compounds (instead of a fuel gas), which it can more readily convert to syngas. However, the temperature of the fixed bed cannot be too low (min 700 °C) to avoid excessive carbon deposition. System calculations show that when pressurized (30 bar) pyrolysis oil gasification/reforming is considered, the catalytic exit bed temperature should be high (900−1000 °C) to reach sufficient enough methane conversion when syngas is the desired product. When only steam is added at elevated pressure, the H2/CO ratio readily increases, which is desired for hydrogen production. For other applications (e.g., Fischer−Tropsch), carbon dioxide probably has to be recycled to keep the H2/CO ratio around 2−3. The lower heating value efficiency of pyrolysis oil gasification/reforming is comparable to the lower end of the reported range of commercial methane steam reforming.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2009 American Chemical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Biomass (TCCB)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/68629
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie900194j
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