Biomass Gasification State-of-the-Art Overview

This chapter focuses on steam gasification processes carried out in fluidized bed reactors for the production of H2-rich syngas. Fixed bed down-draft and up-draft gasifiers have also been used, but these are restricted to small-scale applications of biomass gasification with air and are not amenable to scale-up or to in-situ gas purification they are also difficult to operate under steady-state and intrinsically safe conditions. 

Among these, the well-known combined heat and power plant in Giissing, Austria, is particularly noteworthy not only as a successfiil industrial reality, but also in view of the light it sheds on the feasibility of the technical concepts involved and the economic benefits derived from the diversification of biomass syngas applications in energy and chemical production systems. 

Italy 1 ENEA CFBG pilot plant Trisaia (similar plant 

New Zealand 2 Rage Macrae up-draft BMC plant Tauranga 

Sweden 30 Foster wheeler energy CFBG Karlsborg paper mill 

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