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Biomass Chemical Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (5): 44-50.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5854.2023.05.006

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Oxygen and Steam Gasification of Bamboo Chips for Production of Hydrogen-rich Gas

Wei XU1,2, Jurong REN1, Hao YING1,*(), Yunjuan SUN1, Yu XU1   

  1. 1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF; Key Lab. of Biomass Energy and Material, Jiangsu Province; Key Lab. of Chemical Engineering of Forest Products, National Forestry and Grassland Administration; National Engineering Research Center of Low-Carbon Processing and Utilization of Forest Biomass; Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing 210042, China
    2. Jiangsu Qianglin Biomass Energy and Material Co., Ltd., Liyang 213364, China
  • Received:2023-04-10 Online:2023-09-30 Published:2023-10-07
  • Contact: Hao YING E-mail:hy2478@163.com

Abstract:

Using oxygen and steam was mixed gasification agent, experiments were conducted on oxygen and steam gasification of bamboo chips in a fixed-bed gasification reactor. The effects of gasification temperature, steam flow rate, and O2 equivalence ratio on gasification of bamboo sawdust for production of hydrogen-rich gas were investigated. The research results showed that both gasification temperature and steam flow rate had a significant impact on the volumetric fraction of H2 in bamboo sawdust gas. The volumetric fraction of H2 showed a steady growth trend with the increase of gasification temperature, and first increased and then decreased with the increase of steam flow rate.The maximum value of H2 volume fraction was achieved at gasification temperature of 900 ℃ and steam flow rate of 0.7 mL/min, respectively. As the O2 equivalence ratio increased, the volumetric fraction of H2 did not changed significantly. The optimal oxygen and steam gasification conditions for preparing hydrogen-rich gas by oxygen-steam gasification from bamboo chips were gasification temperature of 900 ℃, steam flow rate of 0.7 mL/min, and O2 equivalence ratio of 0.30. Under this condition, the volumetric fraction of H2 in the gas produced by gasification was 32.04%, the calorific value was 11.37 MJ/m3, the gas production rate was 1.40 L/g, the volumetric fraction of CH4 in the gas was 8.82%, the volumetric fraction of CO was 26.34%, the volumetric fraction of CO2 was 30.55%, and the volumetric fraction of C2Hm was 2.24%.

Key words: bamboo chips, gasification, oxygen-steam, hydrogen-rich gas

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