Parametric study of pyrolysis and steam gasification of rice straw in presence of K2CO3

Humair Ahmed Baloch; Tianhua Yang; Haipeng Sun; Jie Li; Sabzoi Nizamuddin; Rundong Li; Zhanguo Kou; Yang Sun; Abdul Waheed Bhutto

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.33, No.9, 2567-2574, September, 2016

DOI10.1007/s11814-016-0121-7 Export Citation

Parametric study of pyrolysis and steam gasification of rice straw in presence of K2CO3

Humair Ahmed Baloch^{1, 2, †}, Tianhua Yang^{1, 3}, Haipeng Sun^{1, 3}, Jie Li^{1, 3}, Sabzoi Nizamuddin², Rundong Li^{1, 3}, Zhanguo Kou^{1, 3}, Yang Sun^{1, 3}, and Abdul Waheed Bhutto^{2, †}

¹Key Laboratory of Clean Energy of Liaoning Province, College of Energy and Environment, Shenyang Aerospace University, No. 37, South Daoyi Street, Daoyi Development District, Shenyang 110136, Liaoning, P. R. China
²Department of Chemical Engineering, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
³, China

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A parametric study of pyrolysis and steam gasification of rice straw (RS) was performed to investigate the effect of the presence of K2CO3 on the behavior of gas evolution, gas component distribution, pyrolysis/gasification reactivity, the quality and volume of synthetic gas. During pyrolysis, with the increase in K2CO3 content in RS (i) the instantaneous CO2 concentration was increased while CO concentration was relatively stable; (ii) the yield of CO2 and H2 increased on the cost of CH4. During steam gasification of RS, with the increase in K2CO3 content in RS (i) the instantaneous concentration of CO2 and H2 increased while instantaneous concentration of CO and CH4 decreased; (ii) the yield of CO2 and H2 production and total yield increased; and (iii) yield of CO and CH4 production followed the order: 9% K2CO3 RS<6% K2CO3 RS

Keywords:Pyrolysis;Steam Gasification;Biomass;Rice Straw;K2CO3

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