The syngas produced by fixed bed gasifiers contains high quantities of particulate and tars. This issue, together with its high temperature, avoids its direct exploitation without a proper cleaning and cooling process. In fact, when the syngas produced by gasification is used in an Internal Combustion engine (IC), the higher the content of tars and particulate, the higher the risk to damage the engine is. If these compounds are not properly removed, the engine may fail to run. A way to avoid engine fails is to intensify the maintenance schedule, but these stops will reduce the system profitability. From a clean syngas does not only follow higher performance of the generator, but also less pollutants in the atmosphere. When is not possible to work on the gasification reactions, the filter plays the most important role in the engine safeguard process. This work is aimed at developing and comparing different porous filters for biomass gasifiers power plants. A drum filter was developed and tested filling it with different filtering media available on the market. As a starting point, the filter was implemented in a Power Pallet 10 kW gasifier produced by the California-based company «ALL Power Labs». The original filter was replaced with different porous biomasses, such as woodchips and corn cobs. Finally, a synthetic zeolites medium was tested and compared with the biological media previously used. The Tar Sampling Protocol (TSP) and a modified «dry» method using the Silica Gel material were applied to evaluate the tars, particulate and water amount in the syngas after the filtration process. Advantages and disadvantages of every filtering media chosen were reported and discussed.

Porous filtering media comparison through wet and dry sampling of fixed bed gasification products / Allesina, Giulio; Pedrazzi, Simone; Montermini, Luca; Giorgini, L.; Bortolani, G.; Tartarini, Paolo. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 547:1(2014), pp. 012003-012003. (Intervento presentato al convegno 32nd Italian Union of Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics Heat Transfer Conference, UIT 2014 tenutosi a ita nel 2014) [10.1088/1742-6596/547/1/012003].

Porous filtering media comparison through wet and dry sampling of fixed bed gasification products

ALLESINA, GIULIO;PEDRAZZI, Simone;MONTERMINI, LUCA;TARTARINI, Paolo
2014

Abstract

The syngas produced by fixed bed gasifiers contains high quantities of particulate and tars. This issue, together with its high temperature, avoids its direct exploitation without a proper cleaning and cooling process. In fact, when the syngas produced by gasification is used in an Internal Combustion engine (IC), the higher the content of tars and particulate, the higher the risk to damage the engine is. If these compounds are not properly removed, the engine may fail to run. A way to avoid engine fails is to intensify the maintenance schedule, but these stops will reduce the system profitability. From a clean syngas does not only follow higher performance of the generator, but also less pollutants in the atmosphere. When is not possible to work on the gasification reactions, the filter plays the most important role in the engine safeguard process. This work is aimed at developing and comparing different porous filters for biomass gasifiers power plants. A drum filter was developed and tested filling it with different filtering media available on the market. As a starting point, the filter was implemented in a Power Pallet 10 kW gasifier produced by the California-based company «ALL Power Labs». The original filter was replaced with different porous biomasses, such as woodchips and corn cobs. Finally, a synthetic zeolites medium was tested and compared with the biological media previously used. The Tar Sampling Protocol (TSP) and a modified «dry» method using the Silica Gel material were applied to evaluate the tars, particulate and water amount in the syngas after the filtration process. Advantages and disadvantages of every filtering media chosen were reported and discussed.
2014
32nd Italian Union of Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics Heat Transfer Conference, UIT 2014
ita
2014
547
012003
012003
Allesina, Giulio; Pedrazzi, Simone; Montermini, Luca; Giorgini, L.; Bortolani, G.; Tartarini, Paolo
Porous filtering media comparison through wet and dry sampling of fixed bed gasification products / Allesina, Giulio; Pedrazzi, Simone; Montermini, Luca; Giorgini, L.; Bortolani, G.; Tartarini, Paolo. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 547:1(2014), pp. 012003-012003. (Intervento presentato al convegno 32nd Italian Union of Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics Heat Transfer Conference, UIT 2014 tenutosi a ita nel 2014) [10.1088/1742-6596/547/1/012003].
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