Ramesh Timsina
Department of Process Energy and Environmental Technology University of South-Eastern Norway
Britt Moldestad
Department of Process Energy and Environmental Technology University of South-Eastern Norway
Marianne S. Eikeland
Department of Process Energy and Environmental Technology University of South-Eastern Norway
Rajan K. Thapa
Department of Process Energy and Environmental Technology University of South-Eastern Norway
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https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp20170145Published in: Proceedings of The 60th SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling SIMS 2019, August 12-16, Västerås, Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 170:22, p. 145-150
Published: 2020-01-24
ISBN: 978-91-7929-897-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Biomass is a renewable energy source. Biomass gasification process produces producer gas, which can be further used for power generation or as raw materials for the production of secondary fuels. Experiment on the air gasification of biomass in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor was performed in a pilot-scale reactor located at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). A kinetics-based simulation model was developed based on MultiPhase Particle-In-Cell MP-PIC approach, using commercial software Barracuda®, and the results were compared with the experimental data. The average volume percentage of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, methane and nitrogen were found to be around 20%, 10%, 7% and 38% respectively in the experiment. The simulation results agree well for carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane, but there is a difference in nitrogen volume percentage compared to the experimental results. The oxygen concentration during the experiment was around 1% suggesting a good performance of the gasifier. The char partial oxidation is less significant compared to the homogenous phase reactions. This shows that devolatilization reaction and the homogenous phase reactions dominate the char gasification reaction.
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