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ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 214, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.112889
Keywords
Hydrogen; Biomass; Oxidative reforming; Thermodynamic study; Gibbs; Simulation; Pyrolysis; Oxygenates reforming
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- Spain's ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CTQ2016-75535-R]
- Spain's ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [RTI2018101678-B-I00]
- Basque Government [IT1218-19]
- European Union [823745]
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The joint process of pyrolysis-steam reforming is a novel and promising strategy for hydrogen production from biomass; however, it is conditioned by the endothermicity of the reforming reaction and the fast catalyst deactivation. Oxygen addition may potentially overcome these limitations. A thermodynamic equilibrium approach using Gibbs free energy minimization method has been assumed for the evaluation of suitable conditions for the oxidative steam reforming (OSR) of biomass fast pyrolysis volatiles. The simulation has been carried out contemplating a wide range of reforming operating conditions, i.e., temperature (500-800 degrees C), steam/biomass (S/B) ratio (0-4) and equivalence ratio (ER) (0-0.2). It is to note that the simulation results under steam reforming (SR) conditions are consistent with those obtained by experiments. Temperatures between 600 and 700 degrees C, S/B ratios in the 2-3 range and ER values of around 0.12 are the optimum conditions for the OSR under autothermal reforming (ATR) conditions, as they allow attaining high hydrogen yields (10 wt% by mass unit of the biomass in the feed), which are only 12-15% lower than those obtained under SR conditions.
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