<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Biomass is one of the major sources of energy that is estimated to contribute between 10% and 14% of the world’s energy supply. Over the past several years, many societies have established policy targets to increase their production of renewable energy from biomass. The thermo-chemical utilization of biomass includes 4 technologies: the most popular combustion and co-firing, and unconventional: pyrolysis and gasification. Gasification is considered to be the perspective technology because has many advantages in comparison to traditional process of combustion: (1) limited emission of the SO2, NOx, oxides of the heavy metals and no risk of the dioxins and furans emission due to reducing atmosphere in the gasification reactor, (2) volume of the gasification gas is smaller in comparison to flue gases from combustion due to the reducing atmosphere, (3) gasification process produce gas which is potential gaseous fuel in power engineering (engines, gas turbines and boilers) and chemistry. Unfortunately, composition of the gasification gas is always described as a variable. Moreover, it depends on the conditions of the process and quality of the base fuel. For this reason, the use of gasification gas can’t be very easy. For this reason, the knowledge of the basic properties of the gas is very important. Laminar burning velocity is assumed as an important quantity for in the process of the design equipment for the gas utilization. The numerical and experimental results of the laminar burning velocity of sewage sludge gasification gases were presented. Experimental Bunsen burner method was used. Cosilab 3© software for numerical analysis was used. GRI-Mech 3.0 mechanism of gas oxidation was implemented. As a result of the work, the set of the parameters where the sewage sludge gasification gas combustion process is stable with effective heat release, were presented.</abstract>

Biomass is one of the major sources of energy that is estimated to contribute between 10% and 14% of the world’s energy supply. Over the past several years, many societies have established policy targets to increase their production of renewable energy from biomass. The thermo-chemical utilization of biomass includes 4 technologies: the most popular combustion and co-firing, and unconventional: pyrolysis and gasification. Gasification is considered to be the perspective technology because has many advantages in comparison to traditional process of combustion: (1) limited emission of the SO2, NOx, oxides of the heavy metals and no risk of the dioxins and furans emission due to reducing atmosphere in the gasification reactor, (2) volume of the gasification gas is smaller in comparison to flue gases from combustion due to the reducing atmosphere, (3) gasification process produce gas which is potential gaseous fuel in power engineering (engines, gas turbines and boilers) and chemistry. Unfortunately, composition of the gasification gas is always described as a variable. Moreover, it depends on the conditions of the process and quality of the base fuel. For this reason, the use of gasification gas can’t be very easy. For this reason, the knowledge of the basic properties of the gas is very important. Laminar burning velocity is assumed as an important quantity for in the process of the design equipment for the gas utilization. The numerical and experimental results of the laminar burning velocity of sewage sludge gasification gases were presented. Experimental Bunsen burner method was used. Cosilab 3© software for numerical analysis was used. GRI-Mech 3.0 mechanism of gas oxidation was implemented. As a result of the work, the set of the parameters where the sewage sludge gasification gas combustion process is stable with effective heat release, were presented.

Evaluation of the possibility of the sewage sludge gasification gas use as a fuel

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Biomass is one of the major sources of energy that is estimated to contribute between 10% and 14% of the world’s energy supply. Over the past several years,...

Evaluation of the possibility of the sewage sludge gasification gas use as a fuel

Published Online: Jul 07, 2016

Page range: 229 - 236

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eces-2016-0015

Keywords
laminar burning velocity, gasification gas, low calorific gas, Bunsen method, experimental study, numerical analysis

© 2016 Sebastian Werle et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Evaluation of the possibility of the sewage sludge gasification gas use as a fuel

Published Online: Jul 07, 2016

Page range: 229 - 236

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eces-2016-0015

Keywordslaminar burning velocity, gasification gas, low calorific gas, Bunsen method, experimental study, numerical analysis

© 2016 Sebastian Werle et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
laminar burning velocity, gasification gas, low calorific gas, Bunsen method, experimental study, numerical analysis