TY - JOUR
T1 - Low temperature gasification of poultry litter in a lab-scale fluidized reactor
AU - Katsaros, Giannis
AU - Pandey, Daya Shankar
AU - Horvat, Alen
AU - Tassou, Savvas
N1 - Funding Information:
The work presented in this paper is supported by the Research Councils 8. Centre for Sustainable Energy 8se in Food Chains, grant no. EP/.011820/1 and EPSRC proMect µOptimising Energy Management in Industry - OPTEMIN , grant No. EP/P004636/1. The Authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received by the proMect funders and the industry partners. The data used in the analysis are given in the paper but if more data or information is reTuired they can be obtained by contacting the corresponding author.
Funding Information:
The work presented in this paper is supported by the Research Councils UK Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains, grant no. EP/K011820/1 and EPSRC project 'Optimising Energy Management in Industry - OPTEMIN', grant No. EP/P004636/1. The Authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received by the project funders and the industry partners. The data used in the analysis are given in the paper but if more data or information is required they can be obtained by contacting the corresponding author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Low temperature gasification of poultry litter (PL) was experimentally studied in a lab scale fluidized bed reactor. The experiments were carried out at three different equivalence ratios (ER) of 0.17; 0.21; 0.25 and temperature 700 °C, to investigate its impact on cold gas efficiency (CGE), carbon conversion efficiency (CCE), gas yield, lower calorific value (LCV), and tar evolution. Maximum CGE and LCV of the produced gas was 43.4% and 3.34 MJ/m3 respectively at an ER of 0.25. The maximum CCE of 72% was attained at the highest value of ER (0.25). The gas yield showed an increasing trend with ER reaching its highest value of ~1 m3/kgdaf N2 free. Highest amount of total tar was 2.41 g/Nm3 in the dry gas at the lowest tested ER. Styrene- xylene, phenol, and naphthalene, were the components with the highest concentrations of up to 30%, whilst the tar compounds detected but couldn't be identified ranged between 25-30% with respect to the total tar yield. The average compositions of the main components in permanent gases (vol %, dry basis) at the indicative value of the lowest ER were as follows: H2:7.87%, CH4:2.04%, CO: 6.37%, CO2:11.47%, C2H4:1%, and C2H6:0.22.
AB - Low temperature gasification of poultry litter (PL) was experimentally studied in a lab scale fluidized bed reactor. The experiments were carried out at three different equivalence ratios (ER) of 0.17; 0.21; 0.25 and temperature 700 °C, to investigate its impact on cold gas efficiency (CGE), carbon conversion efficiency (CCE), gas yield, lower calorific value (LCV), and tar evolution. Maximum CGE and LCV of the produced gas was 43.4% and 3.34 MJ/m3 respectively at an ER of 0.25. The maximum CCE of 72% was attained at the highest value of ER (0.25). The gas yield showed an increasing trend with ER reaching its highest value of ~1 m3/kgdaf N2 free. Highest amount of total tar was 2.41 g/Nm3 in the dry gas at the lowest tested ER. Styrene- xylene, phenol, and naphthalene, were the components with the highest concentrations of up to 30%, whilst the tar compounds detected but couldn't be identified ranged between 25-30% with respect to the total tar yield. The average compositions of the main components in permanent gases (vol %, dry basis) at the indicative value of the lowest ER were as follows: H2:7.87%, CH4:2.04%, CO: 6.37%, CO2:11.47%, C2H4:1%, and C2H6:0.22.
KW - Fluidized bed
KW - Gasification
KW - Poultry litter
KW - Tars
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U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.058
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.058
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85064464731
SN - 1876-6102
VL - 161
SP - 57
EP - 65
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Resource Use in Food Chains, ICSEF 2018
Y2 - 17 October 2018 through 19 October 2018
ER -