The importance of inherent inorganics and the surface area of wood char for its gasification reactivity and catalytic activity towards toluene conversion

Gasification char is an effective catalyst for tar reforming because of the abundance surface active sites, which are available heterogeneous conversion hydrocarbons and interactions with agents. This paper focuses on importance certain properties gasification catalytic reforming. Specifically, reactivity spruce examined, along its performance as a toluene conversion. The material used this work was produced via wood chips in pilot TwoStage Viking plant (Technical University Denmark, Risø). To obtain set samples varied area characteristics inorganic content, three pre-treatments were applied to char: acid washing, steam activation, high-temperature treatment. experiments performed untreated modified materials revealed that during CO2 depends mostly metal content sample, whereas insensitive but strongly correlated reactions toluene.