Economic Model Gasification

Oxide catalysts are known to be effective for oxidation reactions. In this study, we wanted to produce carbon monoxide through partial oxidation of the biomass, as this could be expected to lead to a conversion of carbon monoxide into hydrogen via the water-gas shift reaction. An oxidization of the tarry product is also expected. By these two effects, improvement of the efficiency of the gasification is expected. Oxide catalyst is expected to enhance the oxidation reaction needed for this scenario. Since oxide catalyst is considerably cheaper than nickel catalyst, its use would make the whole gasification process more economical. Hence, we decided to examine the effect of oxide catalysts on gasification with partial oxidation using cellulose as a model compound. 

Bioresource Technology. 1979- Amsterdam Elsevier (0960-8524). Online ScienceDirect. Topics include biofuels production, modeling and economics bioprocesses and bioproducts biocatalysis and fermentations biomass and feedstocks utilization and thermal conversion of biomass combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, catalysis. 

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