TY - GEN
T1 - Syngas production from coal gasification with CO2 rich gas mixtures
AU - Alam, M. S.
AU - Wijayanta, A. T.
AU - Nakaso, K.
AU - Fukai, J.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Coal gasification with CO2rich gas mixture is one of several promising new technologies associated with CO2 reduction in the atmosphere. Coal gasification with high CO2 concentration is suitable for producing large amount of syngas. However, an increase in CO2 concentration will result in lower gas temperature in the reactor. In this paper, a similar gas temperature profile in CO2/O2 mixtures to that of coal gasification in air is predicted by observing the effects of CO2 concentration. The coal gasification model considered in this calculation is composed of devolatilization model, char gasification model and gas phase reaction model. Reaction rate equation of n-th order type with the Random Pore Model is applied to the char gasification reaction. Influence of inlet particles size is also studied. It is found that 20μm particles in 21%O2/79%CO2 and 100μm particles in air (21%O2/79%N2) result in a similar gas temperature profile during coal gasification. The outlet gas mixture with the same calorific value as from air blown coal gasification can be obtained if air is replaced by 50%CO2/29%N2/21%O2 mixtures.
AB - Coal gasification with CO2rich gas mixture is one of several promising new technologies associated with CO2 reduction in the atmosphere. Coal gasification with high CO2 concentration is suitable for producing large amount of syngas. However, an increase in CO2 concentration will result in lower gas temperature in the reactor. In this paper, a similar gas temperature profile in CO2/O2 mixtures to that of coal gasification in air is predicted by observing the effects of CO2 concentration. The coal gasification model considered in this calculation is composed of devolatilization model, char gasification model and gas phase reaction model. Reaction rate equation of n-th order type with the Random Pore Model is applied to the char gasification reaction. Influence of inlet particles size is also studied. It is found that 20μm particles in 21%O2/79%CO2 and 100μm particles in air (21%O2/79%N2) result in a similar gas temperature profile during coal gasification. The outlet gas mixture with the same calorific value as from air blown coal gasification can be obtained if air is replaced by 50%CO2/29%N2/21%O2 mixtures.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866099956
SN - 3540356061
SN - 9783642304446
T3 - Cleaner Combustion and Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Coal Combustion
SP - 726
EP - 729
BT - Cleaner Combustion and Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Coal Combustion
PB - Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
T2 - 7th International Symposium on Coal Combustion: Cleaner Combustion and Sustainable World, ISCC
Y2 - 17 July 2011 through 20 July 2011
ER -