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STUDIES INTO THE EFFECT OF TORREFACTION ON GASIFICATION OF BIOMASS

2014· article· en· W2279472695 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Manoj K. Raut

Bibliographic record

VenueLibrary and Archives Canada (Government of Canada) · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTorrefactionBiomass (ecology)Environmental sciencePulp and paper industryWaste managementChemistryAgronomyPyrolysisEngineeringBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The utilization of biomass sources can reduce greenhouse gas emission. Presently, biomass is being considered as a potential energy resource to substitute fossil fuel for large-scale power generation through combustion as well as a chemical feedstock. Gasification can turn biomass into convenient product gas that could be used for both energy conversion and chemical production. Biomass gasification is being recognized as an alternative to combustion for the production of clean energy and provision of syn gas for production of chemicals. However, major limitation of the biomass gasification is the tar produced during the process and the high-energy cost associated with its removal from the product gas. Torrefaction is a new pretreatment method for biomass that has positive features such as reduced the storage, transportation cost, increased energy density, easier grinding. The torrefaction process partially removes the low quality volatiles matter thereby making the gas cleaning simpler and increasing energy density of the biomass. Furthermore, it lowers the O/C ratio of biomass fuel making it more favorable for gasification. \n\nTo examine the above potential steam-gasification of raw biomass char and torrefied biomass char was investigated and studied their product gas composition and its other attributes. In this study, poplar wood was torrefied at 250oC and 275oC for 1 hour and gasified at different gasification temperatures (700-950oC). Measured and analyzed syngas gas yield, syngas composition and heating value. The kinetics of the process was also studied and it showed that torrefied (250oC with 1 hour residence time) biomass char had activation energy of 92.30 kJ/mol. Furthermore, SEM analysis of the char produced from the torrefied biomass and raw biomass was conducted to observe any difference in the microstructure their structure. The gasification experiments indicated that torrefied biomass produces slightly higher concentration of hydrogen and lower concentration of carbon dioxide than untreated biomass. Furthermore, this study showed that torrefaction has minor reduction in syngas yield, but major reduction in tar production. Overall combination of torrefaction and gasification of biomass is a promising technology for the future energy generation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.542
Threshold uncertainty score0.226

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.154
Teacher spread0.151 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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