Production of Useful Fuels and Electricity from Biomass and Waste Resources Kunio Yoshikawa Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan Up to now, the only solution for utilization of solid wastes including biomass as energy resources is to incinerate them and to use the produced heat directly or to convert the produced heat into electric power employing boilers/steam turbines. Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing and commercializing total technologies to convert unutilized resources such as solid wastes and biomass into high value added energy resources (solid fuel, gaseous fuel, liquid fuel and electric power) by combining various technologies which have been jointly developed with many companies. This paper focuses on R&D and successful commercial applications of these technologies. The content of the technologies are as follows. Solid Fuel Production Technology: The hydrothermal treatment technology can convert unutilized resources with various shapes, heating values and moisture contents into uniform dry powder-like solid fuels with the heating value equivalent to coal. Liquid Fuel Production Technology: Gasoline or diesel equivalent fuel oils can be produced from waste plastics by employing the pyrolytic reforming oil production technology and from waste cooking oils or plant oils by employing the dry-type alkali catalyst biodiesel production technology. The emulsion fuel which is a mixture of oil and water can reduce emissions as well as improve thermal efficiency of boilers. Gasification and Power Generation Technology: The gasification technologies can produce low to medium calorific gases from solid fuels by employing pyrolysis and reforming or steam gasification technologies. Electric power can be generated from this low to medium calorific gases by employing internal combustion engines. Index Terms—Biomass, Fuel production, Power generation, Wastes I. INTRODUCTION Up to now, the only commercialized ways of waste treatment are mass land-filling and mass burning. In Japan, most of burnable wastes are incinerated, but not in other countries, and still land-filling is the most popular way of waste treatment all over the world. But the world recent trend is to prohibit or limit land-filling of wastes while citizens do not want to increase waste incineration in developed countries as well as developing countries. On the other hand, segregation of wastes is becoming popular in the developed countries and we have limited solutions on the usage of segregated wastes. Thus we have to find out the utilization ways alternative to incineration for each segregated waste. Based on this background, Tokyo Institute of Technology is focusing on development and commercialization of new technologies for the utilization of segregated wastes as well as mixed wastes as new energy resources. In general, the economical feasibility of new energy resources are not so good, but in the case of wastes, we can get revenue first by treating wastes and second by selling the product (electricity, steam, hot water, fuels, etc.). These technologies cover total technologies ranging from pre-treatment to final energy production. This paper introduces overview of these technologies. II. SOLID FUEL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY (RRS) Pre-treatment of wastes requires crushing, drying and deodorizing, which are normally different processes. But we have devised innovative hydrothermal pre-treatment system named as the RRS (Resource Recycling System) which can perform these three pre-treatment functions in one process utilizing high pressure saturated steam. This technology is characterized by low energy consumption for drying. Figure 1 shows the operating principle of the RRS and Fig.2 shows a photograph of its commercial plant. Figures 3 and 4 show the photographs of raw material and products. Solid wastes are fed into the reactor, and then, 200C, 2MPa saturated steam is supplied into the reactor for about 30 minutes and the blades installed inside the reactor rotates to mix the wastes for about 10 minutes. Then the product is discharged after extracting steam. The product is powder-like substance and the moisture content is almost the same as the raw material, but easily to be dried by natural drying. This means that this RRS process itself is not a drying process, and drying can be done using natural energy which results in low energy consumption for drying. There is almost no bad smell in the solid products, and the products can be used as liquid and solid organic fertilizers (in the case of biomass such as sewage sludge, food residue and excrement) or solid fuels (in the case of mixed wastes containing plastics like municipal solid wastes [MSW]) which can be easily mixed with coal for power generation or cement production. For MSW treatment, the RRS technology has significant technical and commercial advantages over conventional incineration technologies such as below. - The RRS is virtually emission free process, no emission of dioxins, NOx, SOx, dust, etc. If required, waste water can be treated to utilize as a boiler feed water, so no waste water discharge is possible. - The RRS product can be utilized as a solid fuel, especially for co-firing with coal. - The capital and running costs of the RRS facility are almost half of those of conventional incinerators. - The permission of installation of the RRS facility is much
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Production of Useful Fuels and Electricity from Biomass and Waste Resources
Kunio Yoshikawa
Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
Up to now, the only solution for utilization of solid wastes including biomass as energy resources is to incinerate them and to use the produced heat directly or to convert the produced heat into electric power employing boilers/steam turbines. Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing and commercializing total technologies to convert unutilized resources such as solid wastes and biomass into high value added energy resources (solid fuel, gaseous fuel, liquid fuel and electric power) by combining various technologies which have been jointly developed with many companies. This paper focuses on R&D and successful commercial applications of these technologies. The content of the technologies are as follows. Solid Fuel Production Technology: The hydrothermal treatment technology can convert unutilized resources with various shapes, heating values and moisture contents into uniform dry powder-like solid fuels with the heating value equivalent to coal. Liquid Fuel Production Technology: Gasoline or diesel equivalent fuel oils can be produced from waste plastics by employing the pyrolytic reforming oil production technology and from waste cooking oils or plant oils by employing the dry-type alkali catalyst biodiesel production technology. The emulsion fuel which is a mixture of oil and water can reduce emissions as well as improve thermal efficiency of boilers. Gasification and Power Generation Technology: The gasification technologies can produce low to medium calorific gases from solid fuels by employing pyrolysis and reforming or steam gasification technologies. Electric power can be generated from this low to medium calorific gases by employing internal combustion engines.
Index Terms—Biomass, Fuel production, Power generation, Wastes
I. INTRODUCTION Up to now, the only commercialized ways of waste treatment are mass land-filling and mass burning. In Japan, most of burnable wastes are incinerated, but not in other countries, and still land-filling is the most popular way of waste treatment all over the world. But the world recent trend is to prohibit or limit land-filling of wastes while citizens do not want to increase waste incineration in developed countries as well as developing countries. On the other hand, segregation of wastes is becoming popular in the developed countries and we have limited solutions on the usage of segregated wastes. Thus we have to find out the utilization ways alternative to incineration for each segregated waste. Based on this background, Tokyo Institute of Technology is focusing on development and commercialization of new technologies for the utilization of segregated wastes as well as mixed wastes as new energy resources. In general, the economical feasibility of new energy resources are not so good, but in the case of wastes, we can get revenue first by treating wastes and second by selling the product (electricity, steam, hot water, fuels, etc.). These technologies cover total technologies ranging from pre-treatment to final energy production. This paper introduces overview of these technologies.
II. SOLID FUEL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY (RRS) Pre-treatment of wastes requires crushing, drying and deodorizing, which are normally different processes. But we have devised innovative hydrothermal pre-treatment system named as the RRS (Resource Recycling System) which can perform these three pre-treatment functions in one process
utilizing high pressure saturated steam. This technology is characterized by low energy consumption for drying. Figure 1 shows the operating principle of the RRS and Fig.2 shows a photograph of its commercial plant. Figures 3 and 4 show the photographs of raw material and products.
Solid wastes are fed into the reactor, and then, 200C, 2MPa saturated steam is supplied into the reactor for about 30 minutes and the blades installed inside the reactor rotates to mix the wastes for about 10 minutes. Then the product is discharged after extracting steam. The product is powder-like substance and the moisture content is almost the same as the raw material, but easily to be dried by natural drying. This means that this RRS process itself is not a drying process, and drying can be done using natural energy which results in low energy consumption for drying. There is almost no bad smell in the solid products, and the products can be used as liquid and solid organic fertilizers (in the case of biomass such as sewage sludge, food residue and excrement) or solid fuels (in the case of mixed wastes containing plastics like municipal solid wastes [MSW]) which can be easily mixed with coal for power generation or cement production. For MSW treatment, the RRS technology has significant technical and commercial advantages over conventional incineration technologies such as below. - The RRS is virtually emission free process, no emission
of dioxins, NOx, SOx, dust, etc. If required, waste water can be treated to utilize as a boiler feed water, so no waste water discharge is possible.
- The RRS product can be utilized as a solid fuel, especially for co-firing with coal.
- The capital and running costs of the RRS facility are almost half of those of conventional incinerators.
- The permission of installation of the RRS facility is much
easier to obtain compared with conventional incinerators because it is an emission free process.
- By increasing the pressure of the saturated steam up to 2.5MPa, PVC will be pyrolyzed to discharge chlorine in the form of HCl, which will become safety inorganic salt by the reaction with the alkaline contents in MSW. Thus there is no chlorine emission when we burn the product fuel.
Figure 2 shows a photograph of a commercial hospital waste treatment facility applying the RRS technology in Japan. The inner volume of the reactor is 3m3 and this facility can treat 50-60 hospital waste boxes per batch. The average weight of one box is about 7kg and one batch requires about 4 hours. The facility has been commercially operated for nearly two years.
Fig.1 Operating principle of the RRS
Fig.2 Photograph of the RRS commercial plant
Fig.3 Before treatment by the RRS
Fig.4 After treatment by the RRS
III. LIQUID FUEL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
A. Fuel Oil Production from Waste Plastics and Oils By use of the pyrolysis and catalytic reforming processes,
waste plastics and oils (mechanical) can be converted into fuel oil. Figure 5 shows its operating principle. Waste plastics or oils are pyrolyzed in an externally heated reactor and are vaporized. By cooling, this vapor condenses and becomes oil, but this oil is mixture of light oils and heavy oils, and the quality as a fuel is not so good. But as shown in Fig.6, by passing this vapor through a reforming catalyst, its molecule is cut, and good quality lighter oils can be produced. These fuel oils can be utilized alternative to gasoline, kerosene and diesel oils.
This technology has been commercialized in Japan for metal (gold and cupper) and oil recovery from waste mobile phones and computers (Fig.7) and oil and carbon recovery from waste toner (Fig.8). A new commercial plant for cupper wire and oil recovery from waste electric wires will be operational soon.
Fig.5 Fuel oil production from waste plastics and oils
Fig.6 Carbon number distribution Fig.7 Commercial plant for metal and oil recovery from waste plastics and computers (2ton/batch/4 hours) Fig.8 Commercial plant for oil and carbon recovery from waste toner (2ton/batch/4 hours)
B. Biodiesel Fuel Production from Plant Oil and Waste Cooking Oil Conventional biodiesel fuel (BDF) production process
employing the alkaline catalyst method shown in Fig.9 has following disadvantages: 1) Raw oil with high FFA and water content can not be used. 2) Cost increase due to low conversion efficiency, 2 steps reaction, excess amount requirement of methanol and catalyst. 3) A large amount of basic waste water is produced from water washing process. 4) Cost increase and deteriorating of produced BDF due to heating and evaporation for drying.
In order to solve these problems, we have developed a new advanced dry BDF production process shown in Fig.10. This process has following advantages: 1) Raw oil with high FFA
and water content can be used by removing water and FFA through a special pretreatment process. 2) Cost reduction is possible due to high conversion efficiency (>99.5%), 1 step reaction, theoretical amount requirement of methanol and catalyst. 3) No waste water is produced. 4) High performance BDF is produced by the low temperature dry purifying process (water content in BDF: <200ppm).
This dry BDF production process has been well commercialized in Japan in small-scale (Fig.11), medium-scale (Fig.12) and large-scale (Fig.13). The total production was over 12,000kl and total running distances were over 50,000,000km. The produced BDF is applicable to common rail direct injection diesel engines. Up to now, 230 garbage collect cars have been running on B100 (biodiesel 100%) produced by this dry process technology from waste edible oil for 5 years without crucial trouble. Fig.9 Conventional BDF production process employing alkaline catalyst method
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Fig.11 Small-scale BDF production facility (20ℓ/batch) Fig.12 Medium-scale BDF production facility (200ℓ/batch)
Fig.13 Large-scale BDF production facility (5000ℓ/day)
C. Emulsion Fuel Production It is known that water emulsified fuel has an effect of
suppressing NOx and dust emissions. But conventional emulsion fuel production processes require addition of surface active agents to prevent separation of oil and water, which significantly deteriorates the economical feasibility of the emulsion fuel. Simultaneously, it is said that saving of fuel is
also possible. But it is not yet shown clearly what the reason is. We have successfully excluded the necessity of surface
active agents by mixing oil and water just before combustion as shown in Fig.14. An application test of this emulsion fuel to a boiler (Fig.15) effectively demonstrated that suppression of NOx and dust emissions is possible (Figs.16 and 17) and improvement of thermal efficiency is also possible by adequately controlling the excess air ratio and water content in the emulsion fuel (Fig.18).
Commercial application of this emulsion fuel to several industrial boilers (Fig.19) has successfully demonstrated that these boilers have been continuously operated for more than a half year without any troubles, suppression of NOx and dust emissions is possible and 5-10% energy saving is possible. In addition, periodical maintenance inspection revealed that the inner surface of boilers became dramatically clean after usage of the emulsion fuel, which should be one cause of improvement of the thermal efficiency. Fig.14 Emulsion fuel production without surface active agents
Fig.15 Boiler testing of the emulsion fuel (1500kg/h) Fig.16 NOx emission as functions of excess air ratio and water content in the emulsion fuel
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IV. GASIFICATION AND POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY
A. Low Calorific Gas Production (STAR-MEET)
Figure 20 shows a typical system flow of the STAR-MEET system. Solid fuels are fed into a fixed-bed pyrolyzer using a continuous feed device. Thermal energy for pyrolysis of the solid fuels is supplied from the partial combustion of char at the bottom of the pyrolyzer or melting furnace. Residual ashes are extracted from the bottom of the pyrolyzer in the form of
calcinated ashes or from the melting furnace in the form of molten slag. Pyrolysis gas contains H2, CO, CH4, N2, CO2, light hydrocarbon and tar. In the reformer, tar and soot components are reformed with high temperature steam in the following endothermic reactions;
CnHm + nH2O nCO + (n+m/2)H2 (1)
C + H2O H2 + CO (2) These reactions are activated under the condition of high temperature over 800C. To sustain this temperature, high temperature steam is employed as well as using high temperature air for partial combustion of the pyrolysis gas. Main components of the reformed gas are H2, CO, CO2, N2,
CH4 and gaseous hydrocarbons such as C2H2. High temperature steam and air are produced from a high efficiency heat exchanger with hot gas from a furnace burning low calorific fuel gas. The thermal energy of the reformed gas is used for making saturated steam and hot air for the pyrolysis stage. Impurities such as HCl, H2S, etc. in the reformed gas are removed in the purifier, which is a scrubber (wet) type and/or a dry type such as a dust filter or an impurity adsorption device. The recovered fly ashes (mainly soot) are supplied into the pyrolyzer again, and the condensed water originated from the moisture in the solid fuels and the steam supplied for reforming is adequately treated and discharged. Finally this purified fuel gas is used as a fuel for an engine with a power generator and for a low calorific gas burning furnace with a heat exchanger.
Fig.20 System flow of the STAR-MEET system
Heating value of gaseous fuels produced in the STAR-MEET system are as low as 1/10 of that of natural gas, and there is almost no established energy conversion methods for such low calorific gases. Therefore, we developed a dual-fueled diesel engine for burning low calorific gases. Figure 21 shows its operating principle. At the start of the plant operation, the engine is fueled by light oil only. Then the produced low calorific gas is gradually mixed into the combustion air, and in the steady state operation, 20-30% of the total thermal input is supplied by light oil, and 70-80% of
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Fig.23 Photograph of the commercial STAR-MEET facility This plant was successfully operated for 90 days continuous feed of chicken manure and continuous extraction of ash. Figure 24 shows the results of 90 days continuous operation. From this figure, we confirmed that although the first half of the operation showed some fluctuation, in the latter half of the operation, the heating value of the reformed gas increased and became stable at around our target value of 4MJ/Nm3. Further, the un-burnt carbon in ash is almost less than 5% during the latter half operation, so it has been confirmed that the chicken manure has successfully been gasified stably. The continuous feeding system and the ash extracting system were trouble free during the continuous operation. The residual ash with low carbon content can be sold as a fertilizer due to their rich contents of phosphorous and potassium and recent high rise of prices of these nutrients for chemical fertilizers. High-temperature air reforming effectively suppressed tar formation, and there was no significant condensation of tar nor dust in the downstream components after this long-term continuous operation. We have also successfully demonstrated 55 days continuous daily operation of the dual-fueled diesel engine generator. Table 1 shows the total energy balance of the commercial plant. In this table, the cold gas efficiency = chemical energy of the reformed gas/thermal energy of the chicken manure supplied into the gasifier and the gross thermal efficiency = electrical output of the engine/ thermal energy of the chicken manure supplied into the gasifier. From this table we can confirm that the cold gas efficiency, the carbon conversion efficiency and the gross thermal efficiency of 73.8%, 96.6% and 21.8%, respectively were achieved even though that chicken manure is difficult to be gasified compared with woody biomass due to its lower heating value and higher ash content.
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B. Medium Calorific Gas Production (HyPR-MEET) The STAR-MEET system is one of air-blown gasification systems, so the nitrogen contained in air will be mixed into the fuel gas which lowers the heating value of the fuel gas down to about 4MJ/Nm3. Thus the use of this low calorific gas is limited only to power generation. In order to avoid nitrogen mixing into the fuel gas, the HyPR-MEET system are developed. The HyPR-MEET system is aiming at gasifying solid wastes including biomass resources with high temperature steam heated up to about 1000-1300C by using a high temperature heat exchanger and at producing medium calorific gases whose main components are H2 and CO. The produced medium calorific gas is used for driving a gas engine generator, used as a fuel for molten carbonate type fuel cells or used as a feed stock gas for extracting hydrogen. The flow diagram and a photograph of the demonstration plant of the HyPR-MEET are shown in Figs. 25 and 26, respectively. Produced gas compositions from wood chips as a function of the steam/carbon ratio is shown in Fig.27, where we can see that hydrogen-rich (more than 50%) medium calorific gas was produced.
Fig25. System flow of the HyPR-MEET system Fig.26 Photograph of the demonstration plant of the HyPR-MEET system (50kg/hour) Fig.27 Gas composition obtained from wood chip gasification
V. SUMMARY The main feature of these technologies introduced in this
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Successful Localization of Japanese Waste-to-Energy Technologies in
Developing Countries throughDeveloping Countries through Student ExchangeStudent Exchange
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ProfessorFrontier Research CenterFrontier Research Center
Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapanJapan
Condition for Profitable Waste-to-Product Business
Income from + Income from >Labor cost + Utility cost + Capital cost
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+ Selling Product>Labor cost + Utility cost + Capital cost
Tokyo Institute of Technology is actively conducting R&DTokyo Institute of Technology is actively conducting R&Defforts to convert unutilized resources such as wastes andbiomass into high value-added energy resources (coal-likebiomass into high value-added energy resources (coal-likesolid fuel, natural gas-like gaseous fuel, petroleum-like liquidfuel hydrogen and electricity) and is applying R&Dfuel, hydrogen and electricity) and is applying R&Dachievements to various fields all over the world.
Number of students in my laboratoryJapan (10) China (11) Indonesia (5) Thailand (4)Japan (10) , China (11), Indonesia (5), Thailand (4),Korea (1), Mongolia (1), Sri Lanka (1), Tajikistan (1)
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cal
/kg
As Received Dry Basis
3000
3500
4000
k
1500
2000
2500
3000
500
1000
1500
0
MSW 2 MPa, 30 min 2 MPa, 90 min 2.4 MPa, 30min
2.4 MPa, 90min
Chlorine Conversion by Hydrothermal ProcessChlorine Conversion by Hydrothermal ProcessC o e Co ve s o by yd o e ocessC o e Co ve s o by yd o e ocess
2w
1 4
1.6
1.8
2%w
/w
0.470.76
1.040.8
0 8
1
1.2
1.4
0.97 0.94
0.48 0.490 1
1.04
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
0.160
MSW 2MPa, 30min 2MPa, 90min 2.4MPa,30min
2.4MPa,90min
•• Organic chlorine is reducing while inorganic chlorine is increasingOrganic chlorine is reducing while inorganic chlorine is increasing
Organic Chlorine Inorganic Chlorine
•• Very less chlorine in condensed water; therefore, inorganic chlorine, instead of Very less chlorine in condensed water; therefore, inorganic chlorine, instead of HClHCl, was formed by hydrothermal process , was formed by hydrothermal process inorganic chlorine washing!inorganic chlorine washing!
ChlorineChlorine RemovalRemoval by Washingby WashingChlorine Chlorine RemovalRemoval by Washingby Washing
Sample& ProductSample& Product Water 2 times of sample; at set temp ; holdingWater 2 times of sample; at set temp.; holding 30mins; exhaust steam at 443K; sampling at 343K343K.
Result at 220℃
Solid
StHydro-th l
(10%)
Stem uptake(100%)
thermal treatment(100%)
Loss(20%) (100%) (100%)
Liquid(70%)
Cs content in solid(dry)
1g dry solid Cs content
1 0001.100 1.200 1.300
y solid)
0 5000.600 0.700 0.800 0.900 1.000
mg Cs/g
dry
No washing
0 0000.100 0.200 0.300 0.400 0.500
centra
on(m
Washed
0.000 373 423 473 523 Co
nc
Temperature(K)
Liquid Fuel Production
① Oil Production from Waste Plastics
Flow of oil production from waste plasticsAgitator
Waste plastics
Flow of oil production from waste plastics
Reforming catalyst Stack
Screw hopper
Cooler煙突
No.2 CondenserPyrolyzer
Circulation pumpHeated extruder
Off-gas burnerOil/water separation
No.1 Condensor
Oil/water separation
Residue recovery
Oil recovery
Burner
Oil pump000000000000000000OOOOOOOOOO
Oil recovery
Oil pump
Controller
OFF
ON
OFF
ON
OFF
ON
OFF
ON
OFF
OFF
Oil tank
F FFOil tank
Carbon number distributionCarbon number distribution
25.0
30.0
20.0
C t l ti f iWT
15.0
Catalytic reformingPyrolysisGasolineKerosene
WT/%
5.0
10.0
0.0
Carbon number
Pyrolytic Reformed Oil
Commercial Plant for Metal and Oil Recovery from Waste Mobile Phones and Computersfrom Waste Mobile Phones and Computers
(500kg/hour)
Recycling of E-WasteRecycling of E Waste
Recycled oilRecycled oil
Carbonized solid
MetalWhen E-wastes such as cellular phones and PC board are process by this technology we can recover rare metalsprocess by this technology, we can recover rare metals together with oil.
Gaseous Fuel Production and Power Generation Technologies
P l i ifi tiPyrolysis gasification
C HbO → Gas + Tar + CharCa HbOc Gas + Tar + Char
• Tar leads to fouling when it becomes saturated.
• Condensing and depositing of tar lead to more frequent maintenance and repair ofmaintenance and repair of especially gas cleaning equipment and resultantly l l ilower plant capacity factors.
Chemical methods Physical methodsChemical methods Physical methods
To destroy tar or to convert tar
Only remove the tartar
• Use of catalytic bed materials
• Cyclone• Filtersmaterials
• Gasifier design• Filters• Electrostatic
precipitators• Selection of the operating conditions
Pressure
precipitators• Scrubber (absorber)
Pressure TemperatureEquivalence ratio (ER)
• Adsorber
The physical tar removal q ( )• Thermal cracking
Catalytic cracking
The physical tar removal method is proven to be technically and
• Catalytic cracking• Plasma reactor
yeconomically attractive approach for gas cleaning
Gasification/Reforming system
ガス化室
投入口
Gasification
Ash
ガス化室
投入口
Gasification
Ash
改質ガス改質ガスReformed Gas改質ガス改質ガスReformed GasReformed Gas
ガス化室
熱分解ガス
chamber
PyrolysisGas
ガス化室
熱分解ガス
chamber
PyrolysisGas
熱分解ガス熱分解ガスPyrolysis Gas熱分解ガス熱分解ガスPyrolysis GasPyrolysis Gas
予熱層、乾燥層
元 層
De-volatilization zone
Drying zone
予熱層、乾燥層
元 層
De-volatilization zone
Drying zone 高温水蒸気/空気
ペブル床
高温水蒸気/空気
ペブル床
High temperature Steam/Air
Pebble Bed
高温水蒸気/空気
ペブル床
高温水蒸気/空気
ペブル床
High temperature Steam/Air
Pebble Bed
High temperature Steam/Air
Pebble Bed
酸化層
還元層
Oxidation zone
Gasification zone
酸化層
還元層
Oxidation zone
Gasification zone
酸化層
灰 層
灰出口
点火装置
Ash
Ash zone
Oxidation zone
Igniter
酸化層
灰 層
灰出口
点火装置
Ash
Ash zone
Oxidation zone
IgniterCCnnHHmm + nH+ nH22O O →→nCOnCO + (n++ (n+m/2m/2)H)H22
C H ( /2 /4)O CO /2H O
CCnnHHmm + nH+ nH22O O →→nCOnCO + (n++ (n+m/2m/2)H)H22
C H ( /2 /4)O CO /2H O
CCnnHHmm + nH+ nH22O O →→nCOnCO + (n++ (n+m/2m/2)H)H22
C H ( /2 /4)O CO /2H O
CCnnHHmm + nH+ nH22O O →→nCOnCO + (n++ (n+m/2m/2)H)H22