Heat and electric power from wastes

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Weight: 173 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-6701
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6701(02)80521-5

✦ Synopsis

07 Alternative energy sources (others, including development, economics) studied for biomass conversion include gasification and pyrolysis followed by steam reforming and water gas shift conversion. The systems studied were based on four types of reactors: low pressure, indirectly-heated gasification; high pressure, direct-fired gasification; fluid bed pyrolysis; and high pressure, high temperature partial oxidation. Sensitivity analyses were an integral part of all analyses performed. These helped to identify situations that would maximize the economics, and to direct research toward areas that can have the largest impacts on costs. A comparison of the cost of hydrogen from all systems studied will be presented.