Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON

Due to the environmental and price issues of current energy crisis, scientists and technologists around the globe are intensively searching for new environmentally less-impact form of clean energy that will reduce the high dependency on fossil fuel. Particularly hydrogen...

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Main Authors: Yunus, Mohd Khairuddin, Ahmad, Murni M, Inayat, Abrar, Yusup, Suzana
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/v62-122.pdf
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author Yunus, Mohd Khairuddin
Ahmad, Murni M
Inayat, Abrar
Yusup, Suzana
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Ahmad, Murni M
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Yusup, Suzana
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description Due to the environmental and price issues of current energy crisis, scientists and technologists around the globe are intensively searching for new environmentally less-impact form of clean energy that will reduce the high dependency on fossil fuel. Particularly hydrogen can be produced from biomass via thermo-chemical processes including pyrolysis and gasification due to the economic advantage and can be further enhanced through in-situ carbon dioxide removal using calcium oxide. This work focuses on the synthesis and development of the flowsheet for the enhanced biomass gasification process in PETRONAS’s iCON process simulation software. This hydrogen prediction model is conducted at operating temperature between 600 to 1000oC at atmospheric pressure. ffects of temperature, steam-to-biomass ratio and adsorbent-to-biomass ratio were studied and 0.85 mol fraction of hydrogen is predicted in the product gas. Comparisons of the results are also made with experimental data from literature. The preliminary economic potential of developed system is RM 12.57 x 106 which equivalent to USD 3.77 x 106 annually shows economic viability of this process.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:30852017-01-19T08:24:25Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/ Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON Yunus, Mohd Khairuddin Ahmad, Murni M Inayat, Abrar Yusup, Suzana TP Chemical technology Due to the environmental and price issues of current energy crisis, scientists and technologists around the globe are intensively searching for new environmentally less-impact form of clean energy that will reduce the high dependency on fossil fuel. Particularly hydrogen can be produced from biomass via thermo-chemical processes including pyrolysis and gasification due to the economic advantage and can be further enhanced through in-situ carbon dioxide removal using calcium oxide. This work focuses on the synthesis and development of the flowsheet for the enhanced biomass gasification process in PETRONAS’s iCON process simulation software. This hydrogen prediction model is conducted at operating temperature between 600 to 1000oC at atmospheric pressure. ffects of temperature, steam-to-biomass ratio and adsorbent-to-biomass ratio were studied and 0.85 mol fraction of hydrogen is predicted in the product gas. Comparisons of the results are also made with experimental data from literature. The preliminary economic potential of developed system is RM 12.57 x 106 which equivalent to USD 3.77 x 106 annually shows economic viability of this process. 2010-02-24 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/v62-122.pdf Yunus, Mohd Khairuddin and Ahmad, Murni M and Inayat, Abrar and Yusup, Suzana (2010) Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON. In: International Conference on Chemical and Biological Engineering (ICCBE 2010), 24-26 February 2010, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v62/v62-122.pdf
spellingShingle TP Chemical technology
Yunus, Mohd Khairuddin
Ahmad, Murni M
Inayat, Abrar
Yusup, Suzana
Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title_full Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title_fullStr Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title_full_unstemmed Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title_short Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
title_sort simulation of enhanced biomass gasification for hydrogen production using icon
topic TP Chemical technology
url http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3085/1/v62-122.pdf