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By Anthony Dufour

This booklet highlights the tactics of biomass thermochemical conversion, protecting issues from combustion and gasification, to pyrolysis and liquefaction.

Heat, energy, biofuels and eco-friendly chemical substances can all be produced by means of those thermochemical techniques. different scales of research are awarded: from the bioenergy chains, to the reactors and molecular mechanisms.

The writer makes use of present study and knowledge to give bioenergy chains from woodland to ultimate use, together with the biomass offer chains, in addition to the lifestyles cycle overview of other technique chains.

Biomass conversion reactors also are awarded, detailing their applied sciences for combustion, gasification and syngas up-grading platforms, pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading.

The physical-chemical mechanisms taking place in some of these reactors are provided highlighting the most pathways for gasoline, char and bio-oil formation from biomass.

This publication bargains an summary of biomass valorization for college students, engineers or builders in chemistry, chemical, environmental or mechanical engineering.

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4 presents the effect of moisture content in wood on its LHV. This highlights the importance of biomass drying for combustion, gasification and pyrolysis process (for “dry” thermochemical processes). For hydrothermal liquefaction (conversion of biomass in a liquid water), the high water content in biomass is not an issue. 4. 5. Simplified mass and energy balances of a dryer. 5 gives simplified mass and energy balances for wood drying. Drying is not the main scope of this book and will not be described further.

7. Simplified diagram of the gasification process modeled under Aspen Plus. zip Schematically, the gasification CHP system consists of a wood dryer, an atmospheric dual-fluidized bed (DFB) gasifier, a syngas cleaning unit coupled with a scrubbing agent regeneration unit and a gas engine. Wood moisture content is reduced in the dryer using air as a drying agent. Dry wood is fed to the gasifier compartment of the DFB gasifier. A DFB gasifier consists of two interconnected fluidized bed reactors: one for gasification and one for char combustion.

The carbon loss by the catalytic conversion or scrubber is very low compared with that from the pyrolysis reaction. A more efficient pyrolysis technology is needed to obtain higher yields in volatile oxygenated aromatic compounds that can be further converted into chemicals. 5%). 3%). However, solid carbons from pyrolysis can be valorized for heat production in the biorefinery or for higher addedvalue products. The effect of gas dilution from a pyrolysis reactor on BTX losses, heat demand and scrubbing solvent flow rate has also been highlighted in this study.

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