Simulation of Enhanced Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production using iCON
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Due to the environmental and price issues of current energy crisis, scientists and technologists around the globe are intensively searching for new environmentally less-impact form of clean energy that will reduce the high dependency on fossil fuel. Particularly hydrogen can be produced from biomass via thermochemical processes including pyrolysis and gasification due to the economic advantage and can be further enhanced through in-situ carbon dioxide removal using calcium oxide. This work focuses on the synthesis and development of the flowsheet for the enhanced biomass gasification process in PETRONAS’s iCON process simulation software. This hydrogen prediction model is conducted at operating temperature between 600 to 1000C at atmospheric pressure. Effects of temperature, steam-to-biomass ratio and adsorbent-to-biomass ratio were studied and 0.85 mol fraction of hydrogen is predicted in the product gas. Comparisons of the results are also made with experimental data from literature. The preliminary economic potential of developed system is RM 12.57 x 10 which equivalent to USD 3.77 x 10 annually shows economic viability of this process. Keywords—Biomass, Gasification, Hydrogen, iCON.
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